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The g14 itself does not want to be too public during the UEFA campaign, and wants to keep a low profile. This can dilute the impression of Johansson's struggle with the g14 during his past administration. After all, UEFA has been reforming in recent years, and the will of the g14 is behind the scenes.
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But after Platini made his campaign platform public, the g14, especially the upper class elites, could no longer remain silent.
Let’s take a look at Platini’s campaign platform, or the reform policies he promised.
In addition to some nice words, such as "returning football to the players", "unity in the football world" and "opposing racial discrimination and doping", the most critical points are actually two points.
First: Say no to g14!
This makes a statement!
Second, reform the Champions League!
As he said: "Europe is not the United States, and the UEFA Champions League cannot learn from the NBA. Since any member of UEFA can participate in the European Cup, the same should be true for the Champions League. Since Andorra has the right to play in Lao Tra
Ford faces England, and Maltese club players are also qualified to see Ronaldinho at home."
If it were implemented, what specific reforms would be made?
We will cut down the number of wealthy families without mercy!
A country can only have a maximum of 3 teams participating in the Champions League!
It would definitely not work to do this in a drastic way, but he also came up with a compromise!
Qualification to directly advance to the Champions League main draw! And the qualifying draw rules!
In the past, there were only 16 places that could directly enter the Champions League. Platini will increase the number to 22. This includes direct benefits given to the countries ranked 11th to 13th in Europe. The champion team will
Get a direct ticket to the Champions League!
The qualifying rules will be changed to "no seeding"!
This means that the teams that have qualified for the Champions League play-offs among the top four and five leagues in Europe, including the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, and the Bundesliga, will have a high probability of direct dialogue in the play-offs!
As a result, there will be relatively fewer wealthy teams entering the main draw!
In contrast, the relatively weak teams entering the qualifying round will have a lower chance of encountering a wealthy team, and the chance of reaching the main draw will also increase!
At this point, g14 is not alone. In addition to the wealthy teams coming forward to warn Platini not to change the rules without authorization, media from powerful football countries also sided with g14.
For example, the BBC pessimistically predicted: If Platini fulfills all his promises, when that day comes, Platini will receive the most criticism in his life, and only on that day will the fans know. They are familiar with and
The Champions League I loved has been ruined.
Originally, the gap between the strong and weak in the Champions League is already very obvious. Just like the top Millwall can use all substitute players in the group stage to complete the qualifying. There are more and more supporting roles accompanying the prince to study. The European Champions League, this
The value of "championship" will be greatly reduced!
There must also be differences of interest within G14. For example, Lyon, despite completing many years of domestic dominance, in the Champions League, they have always been either a dark horse or a soy sauce character. Their strength has not been widely recognized, and there is a gap in economic interests.
great.
Will Platini's reforms be beneficial to Lyon?
have!
He is the class leader in Ligue 1. He can enter the Champions League directly without having to play in the play-offs.
Well, there are few powerful giants in the Champions League. For example, the top four teams in the Premier League. Needless to say, Millwall will definitely die if they meet Lyon! Chelsea also abused him without discussion. If Manchester United takes it seriously, there is nothing to say about crushing Lyon. Liverpool
They finished fourth last season, and before that it was Arsenal. When these two teams meet, Lyon can hardly be sure of it, and is even frightened!
If Liverpool, who are playing in the play-offs this season, or a team in the future Premier League championship group encounters an Italian or Spanish team in the play-offs and is eliminated, or in other words, no matter who is eliminated or who advances, it will help Lyon improve.
In order to improve the probability of going further in the Champions League by a small margin.
Coupled with Platini's French background, Lyon couldn't wait to choose betrayal!
Lyon's blatant defection has little impact on the overall situation of the UEFA presidential election, but it still has some impact.
Looking across Europe, there are teams everywhere that are envious and hateful of G14. Platini’s promotion of saying no to G14 is to cater to the people of these weaker league teams. Platini has not yet taken over, Lyon
He defected, which gave these people hope of the fall of G14! Of course, they will support Platini even more firmly!
After the UEFA election, the G14 held an impromptu summit. At this meeting in Brussels, Millwall representative Carter, as the rotating president, criticized the members of the three French clubs in person, even using curse words!
Millwall's allies, those elite clubs who also boycotted Platini, sided with Millwall. The meeting that day was more like a denunciation meeting, and Carter even made harsh words in the end.
"If you can't unite with us! OK, get out of g14 and we will have new members join in!"
The trends of g14 are also followed by external media.
At the end of the meeting, Carter left the hotel just like the other representatives. Others either had expressionless faces, making it difficult to guess what was discussed in the meeting, while Carter smiled, completely different from the angry man he had previously been in the meeting.
Two people.
This is the basic rule in football circles: internal problems, internal solutions!
The Premier League bosses’ roundtable meeting also has this tradition, so it’s not surprising.
During the secret meeting, they stab each other with knives, but after leaving the meeting, they still have a unified stance and can still chat and laugh happily to give the outside world an illusion.
This is also an important reason why the Premier League has been able to fight for a long time with the Football Association and become independent.
Unite! Unite for the benefit!
But just after Carter returned to London by plane, as soon as he got off the plane, he received a call from his assistant. He immediately cursed: "UEFA can't be so shameless! Hire the best team of lawyers for me. If it doesn't work, go to them."
lawsuit!"
The Champions League knockout rounds are about to take place. Before that, there will be a ceremony. Millwall needs to return the Champions League trophy they won last season to UEFA, because it is an authentic trophy. At the same time, UEFA will give Millwall a smaller version.
Replica of the trophy for the club's collection.
So, when UEFA selected the place and time to return the trophy, it sent a fax to Millwall Club to formally notify them of the matter!
Here comes the problem!
In 2004, 2005, and 2006, Millwall won the Champions League consecutively, three consecutive championships!
They have the right to keep this authentic Champions League trophy forever!
UEFA now wants to take it back?
Aldrich and Carter stood smoking in front of the club meeting room window.
In the conference room, the staff were busy, and the focus was on UEFA's rules for the Champions League.
It was already evening at this time, and Carter came back to the club in the afternoon to deal with this matter.
Aldrich blew out the smoke out the window and sighed in disinterest: "Politics..."
The Champions League is the most important brand under UEFA, and UEFA, as the organizer, must have absolute authority.
Just imagine, UEFA officially only has one genuine Champions League trophy. But Millwall has two genuine trophies. UEFA is not happy to see this happen, plus Platini wants to suppress G14, reform the Champions League, etc.
Factors, Aldrich is not too surprised that UEFA is causing such a thing.
A staff member suddenly stood up and said: "Boss, UEFA's rules are rather ambiguous. UEFA's official response is: when Millwall won the Champions League for the fifth time, the number of times they retained the authentic trophy was cleared.
Now we have won two consecutive championships, not three consecutive championships."
Carter was furious and said angrily: "Damn it! If I had known better, I wouldn't have postponed the publicity plan of engraving my name on the trophy! UEFA, there must be a limit to shamelessness!"
In fact, Carter has studied that rule before, so he can probably understand what kind of word game UEFA is playing.
Teams that win three consecutive championships or a cumulative total of five championships have the right to retain the authentic Champions League trophy. After the team achieves three consecutive championships or a cumulative five championships, the statistics will be cleared.
In other words, Millwall's 2004 Champions League championship is listed as the five-time clear limit.
In fact, based on the context of the rules, this accumulation of five times should refer to the time when the authentic Champions League trophy was retained!
But when the rules were set back then, apart from Real Madrid, only a few teams had achieved three consecutive championships, and only Real Madrid had won more than 5 championships!
Therefore, when the rules were established at the time, there were no big problems. Even if there were problems, they were not something that the people in power of that generation should worry about.
Now being exploited by UEFA, Millwall can only suffer a dumb loss. The trophy must be returned to UEFA.
Carter was angry that in the summer of 2005, when Southgate retired, Millwall had just displayed an authentic Champions League trophy with the names of legendary players engraved on it. In the summer of 2006, they got another one. The club planned to postpone it.
Engraving the players' names on it is not only to whet the appetite of the players, but also to prevent the same publicity strategy for two consecutive years from causing visual fatigue to the outside world, and the results are definitely not optimistic.
Now, Millwall wants to return the trophy intact. If they really insist on engraving their name on the trophy when UEFA has informed them that they want to return the trophy, then it will be like breaking up with UEFA!
"Okay, that's it."
Aldridge waited for an expected result. Although UEFA did this ugly thing, they must have been prepared to give Millwall a slap in the face. Everyone in UEFA
Live in vain.
Moreover, even if there is controversy now, it is only temporary. After a year or two, it will disappear and no one will care about what happened today.
However, before Aldridge led his team to Italy to challenge Inter Milan, at the pre-match Champions League press conference, he smiled lightly and said: "Maybe we and UEFA have differences on retaining the authentic Champions League trophy, but it doesn't matter. , Millwall cooperated with UEFA, and we returned the trophy to UEFA. As long as we continue to defend the Champions League this year, we will be able to get the second authentic Champions League trophy, haha, unless, UEFA within the next three months. The rules for retaining the Champions League trophy were immediately modified, and the genuine trophy will no longer be retained permanently by the club." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
