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Kamada looks like a player.

Aye, the Roma's and Leicester's and Marseille's are there to raise the profile and help generate interest. It's such a well laid out plan that I'm wondering if I'm making things up or are UEFA really this good now. The Armenian team in HJK's group got roughly 3 million and can only imagine how much that means to them. Some of that money has to be going to the academies which helps Armenian player production making their national team better in the future. I'm sure UEFA's end goal is to have a 32 team Euros that would make them loads more money but they are taking all the right steps that help make European football more competitive as a whole and justifying having that many teams in the tournament in the future. Nations League obviously helps with that too with one of the minnows always having the chance to qualify which used to be an impossible pipe dream. Football boom in North Macedonia has to be massive right now and they should only be better in 10-15 years time. Also hope Finland's recent success means more kids choose football instead of ice hockey as we will always be good there but could do with some help in football.

I think the group stages make sense even in Conference League. The monetary gains for clubs from smaller leagues are huge and the guaranteed six games are better than one home game and away game before being knocked out. If I calculated right, HJK Helsinki gained 3.9 million euros just from prize money from the Conference League. Their wage bill for 2022 is approximately 2 million so the money gained just from winning two games in the group stages is absolutely staggering. European games are a massive bonus for fans too, I have no idea why it would have to be limited only to the biggest clubs in Europe who are swimming in cash any way and whose fans are having hard time taking even Europa League seriously.

UEFA have surprisingly been very good lately. Nations League and Conference League are great additions, just wish they end giving CL dropouts another chance at EL.

This has been amazing run by them. They fully deserved to knock out Bayern and they are doing alright here too.

The atmosphere is so much better than yesterday and it wasn't exactly a poor game.

I’m 100% certain no one in the world knows what the handball rule is

Anyone saying UCL is boring is full of shite.

Or not.

Yeah, I think signings like that are 2-3 years away.

Fernandinho, wew.

Feel like he will be amazing signing for someone, these City years have made him so versatile.

Ronaldo must have played hundreds of games against Norwich then. I will always be on team Messi but this is just rewriting history to make Ronaldo look worse. Benzema is ridiculously good but Ronaldo carried Real often too for ages.

Ederson is making bad decisions all the time. No one on Laporte but passed it to Diaz.

I seem to be one of the few who don't want to see Everton relegated. One of my best mates is an Everton fan and in general as a fan I want to have as many traditional PL clubs in the league as possible. Us vs Leeds or Everton feels like a big match but Burnley means nothing to me. There's one another team I would like to have back for the same reasons but I don't have the balls to name it.

Everton are doing really good here. Matip on Gordon could have easily been a pen.

Aye, no one seems to believe it even after the replays.

IMO he's the most important player when we are playing City/Pool and have even less possession than usually. Thought he had a great game at Anfield on a free role and had numerous good runs that troubled them.

Considering the gut feeling you had with Bruno, he’ll be a SAF-level legend.

Saka was pulling Azpi's hand, ridiculous decision and once again no consistency at all.

February, March and April too. People were worried we might not get another point three games/9 points ago.

Fucking hell that Saka pen, absolutely hopeless officiating.

I would have guessed 31-32, been around for ages.

Fuck off ref, that’s ridiculous.

Fucking obsessed.