The Gherald reporting that the Peasants could be granted an automatic Champions League place every season

[muttley]

Apparently, UEFA want to change the Champions League and clubs that have won the trophy before could be given a automatic spot. Utterly horrific, if true.

 

[SuperGers07]

Apparently, UEFA want to change the Champions League and clubs that have won the trophy before could be given a automatic spot. Utterly horrific, if true.

Celtic have never won the champions league. That'll be the loophole to ensure tinpot sides like celtic dont get in

 

[Brian Laudrup]

Games a bogey if true

 

[Tagsbear]

No fucking chance!!

 

[Laudrups Barnet 55]

Apparently, UEFA want to change the Champions League and clubs that have won the trophy before could be given a automatic spot. Utterly horrific, if true.

Surely not? Scottish teams have contributed massively to European football over the decades and I include them in that and the fact we all have to do four qualifiers is a joke imo

But that’s fucking scandalous

 

[Business_Bear]

Would Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest also be guaranteed spots?

 

[Oxymoron]

Surely this can't be true. There are so many clubs in smaller leagues which would be given a huge financial advantage. Must be bullsh*t

 

[tazzabear]

Timmy porn.
Herald porn as well.

 

[Taki]

There are, I think, over 20 teams that have won the EC or CL. How would that work? Would they all get a place? Would Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Hamburg have CL football in perpetuity?

Or is this Gherald Timmy porn?

 

[SuperGers07]

actually laughing at this article

fake news

https://www.heraldscotland.com/spor...ampions-league-spot-every-year-in-new-system/

 

[SecondBestIsNothing]

An old story that will amount to nothing, wouldn't make any sense

 

[trevor_steven]

This will never happen, think how many winners of the European Cup there has been over the years.

Even if they tried this with Champions League winners if would be a woeful idea and could once and for all ruin my enjoyment of football out with Rangers.

 

[Nizzy72]

Would Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest also be guaranteed spots?

Steau Bucharest as well!!

What a load of shit.

 

[Taki]

Celtic have never won the champions league. That'll be the loophole to ensure tinpot sides like celtic dont get in

It must also be pointed out that the old-style European Cup bears no relation at all to the modern Champions League.

Linfield were quarter-finalists the year Celtic fluked their win. No best of the best in those days.

 

[RangersEasyOK]

F uck sake are people actually falling for this shite ?

 

[Coop1872]

Surely this can't be true. There are so many clubs in smaller leagues which would be given a huge financial advantage. Must be bullsh*t

It would virtually kill off most smaller leagues if one team was guaranteed the Champions League money every year.

 

[Recoba]

Last week the Record ran a story saying they might not get in it at all anymore now they are saying they could be guaranteed every season, what a load of p1sh !

 

[Livibear]

It's a totally stupid idea proposed by a few clubs pushing rampant self interest.

UEFA love shite like this so it may well happen...

 

[GimmeShelter]

Lot . Of. Sh!te

 

[Bluenose1979]

This was a proposal by a small number of clubs including the mhanks was it not?

Absolute lunacy and never going to happen.

 

[adidasler]

UEFA would not make such an obviously devaluing move on it's premier competition.

 

[btl456]

It would devalue the whole competition if this was to happen,tims in at the expense of a english, Italian, or spanish club don't think they will go down that road.

 

[Bobans27]

I would be all in favour of the founding members being given automatic qualification, it’s only fair......

 

[LOL 133]

It would virtually kill off most smaller leagues if one team was guaranteed the Champions League money every year.

That is why the money for qualification should be shared by all the clubs in the various leagues.

 

[RFC1976]

Liewell has been pushing this bullshit agenda for ages no chance will the cash cow that is the cl allow 20 nothing clubs to suddenly get into the group stages

 

[Ter]

They basically want it a closed shop so they can include more teams from the biggest leagues. Scotland won't be welcome in that.

This will be why they are bringing in this third European tournament so the Europa League will become the pinnacle tournament for diddy nations and also rans from the top nations.

 

[Sebo1872]

I hope they are gullible enough to buy into it.

UEFA don't give a f*ck about teams outwith the top 4 or 5 leagues.

If that was the case the 8 original participants in to the CL should be given an automatic spot as founding fathers.

 

[Careca]

And that right there is the closing stages of a coordinated attack on our club by our less successful rivals.

Their paws have been all over everything that has happened to us.

 

[Axelrod]

Nonsensical stuff .

Are Steaua Bucharest , Red Star Belgrade, Hamburg and PSV also getting a spot ?

Laughable

 

[bobally]

Personally think the 8 original teams in the CL should be given the right to be in it every year

 

[Bluenose1979]

Sponsors of the tournament will give this the big F-O IMHO.

 

[bpfurian]

Load of shite,as if the likes of Arsenal and spurs are going to let that happen.

 

[GourockBlue50]

This is never going to be true.

 

[True Blue Avenger]

I would be all in favour of the founding members being given automatic qualification, it’s only fair......

Beat me to it, exactly what I was going to post! In addition to being in the very first comp, was it not us who came up with the idea in the first place?

 

[Gene_Okerlund]

The story is Horse shit. If anything Rangers should be involved in the CL every year. We are one of those 8 stars on the CL emblem.

 

[Ambiorix]

That's like Gary Player getting automatic entry to The Masters every year.

 

[VGM]

Apparently, UEFA want to change the Champions League and clubs that have won the trophy before could be given a automatic spot. Utterly horrific, if true.

So about 24 of the 32 spots are pre determined every season?

Nonsense Timmy pandering by the Scottish media

 

[ScotiaPapac]

Pacific Shelf 595 have never won the European Cup.

 

[John Dalrymple]

Apparently, UEFA want to change the Champions League and clubs that have won the trophy before could be given a automatic spot. Utterly horrific, if true.

So Hamburg villa.. forest.. all included

 

[kingstonbear]

That's like Gary Player getting automatic entry to The Masters every year.

Bad example mAte as all past winners do get automatic invite, at least for a number of years. That’s the only reason why Sandy Lyle still plays each year.

I’m sure that the Man City and PSG’s of this world will be perfectly understanding of this, not!

 

[VGM]

So Hamburg villa.. forest.. all included

Wonder what Arsenal etc would have to say about this....

 

[Danger Zone]

Celtic have never won the champions league. That'll be the loophole to ensure tinpot sides like celtic dont get in

Aye but they won ra European cup with 11 bhoys born on the same day at the same time in the same room, birthed by the same slag, so surely that has to be worth some special treatment?

 

[Copland85]

They are a tad late with their April Fool's jokes,are they not??.

 

[Coatbridge Chancellor]

English and French leagues emphatically rejected the idea out of hand last week, it's dead in the water. Not like the Scottish press to be behind the times eh.

 

[Travis Bickle]

What happens if they finish third or fourth, do they still get in?

 

[Souness86]

Can just see Spurs, Atletico Madrid and the Red Bull clubs allowing this to happen.

 

[omegaman]

So second tier domestic outfits like Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Hamburg are going to get byes into the CL every season?

I don’t think so.

 

[longtimedead]

The child-abusers should be banned from football.

 

[Toproadloyal]

This was a proposal by a small number of clubs including the mhanks was it not?

Absolute lunacy and never going to happen.

Yes it was, who do you think is behind it all? Good old Liewell of course, I wouldn’t rubbish it just yet.
They’ll do anything to keep financially in front of us.

 

[ElBarrileteCosmico]

Nottingham Forest and that too? Red Star? No chance.