Wojciech Szczesny

[Özim]

Nah its fine as it is. If City are good enough they should be able to get out the group anyway. Do you really think if Barca finished 2nd in there league it makes sense to put them in pot 2 or is this another dig at Arsenal.

You can have more than one team from each country in pot 1, they do at the moment......what's a joke is having a team clearly better than another team in a lower pot.

[Özim]

Nah, fuck City. You don't just get taken over by oil tycoons, splurge obscene amounts of cash buying shit load of super stars (barring Lezbo), fumble your way to an EPL title and all of a sudden you're the it.

Fuck City and the Chavscum for distorting the beautiful game and fucking off every guiding principle, be it the books or on the pitch.

And I'm going to go slightly off topic by saying Wenger still trumps those ****s of managers who have or still run those clubs. Sure he's a has been at best now, but his glory days still far supercede the glory days of these 'can buy any player' managers. The best and most breath taking football ever witnessed in the Prem was played under his tutelage and stewardship. Now, you watch a Chavs and/or City game, and you are bored half to death, all the time asking yourself is this what football looks like coming from the supposed best teams with some of the best players on the planet?

I think the point is though the best teams should be in the pot for top seeds, it doesn't make sense to have a team who aren't as good as the other team seeded higher.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

You can have more than one team from each country in pot 1, they do at the moment......what's a joke is having a team clearly better than another team in a lower pot.

I think the seeding system should work according to your position in the league i.e league winners in the major leagues are automatically in the pot of 1st seeds.

So what your saying is next season if Madrid finished 2nd they should be in pot 2. If City don't win the league this season then they should be in pot 2 or 3 is that what your saying.

The system won't change because they want to keep the best teams apart. City might have won the league but in Europe they are poor, that is how it is worked out.

[Özim]

So what your saying is next season if Madrid finished 2nd they should be in pot 2. If City don't win the league this season then they should be in pot 2 or 3 is that what your saying.

The system won't change because they want to keep the best teams apart. City might have won the league but in Europe they are poor, that is how it is worked out.

No Madrid can stay in pot 1 along with the league winners. I don't think there should be any 3rd/4th place teams in pot 1 though (unless they won it the season before).

[Olivier's xmas twist]

No Madrid can stay in pot 1 along with the league winners. I don't think there should be any 3rd/4th place teams in pot 1 though (unless they won it the season before).

You'd be better scrapping the whole thing and have a straight knockout competition tbh.

[Joker]

I don't think teams should be seeded at all tbh. It makes the group stages extremely predictable, and seems to be a protectionist measure to ensure the 'big' clubs get past the group stages.

[Letters]

I don't think teams should be seeded at all tbh. It makes the group stages extremely predictable, and seems to be a protectionist measure to ensure the 'big' clubs get past the group stages.

Of course it is. The bigger clubs are of more interest and will generate more money. And that's what it's all about.
Football

Lucky we're still one of the big clubs. Just.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I don't think teams should be seeded at all tbh. It makes the group stages extremely predictable, and seems to be a protectionist measure to ensure the 'big' clubs get past the group stages.

I agree, but its how the money is made, they have to keep the "Big Clubs" apart. More fans watch, more money.

[Özim]

I don't think teams should be seeded at all tbh. It makes the group stages extremely predictable, and seems to be a protectionist measure to ensure the 'big' clubs get past the group stages.

I totally agree, but that's not going to happen...at least if you do have a seeding system then make it logical though.

[Cripps_orig]

He's been dropped for the game tomorrow.

Surely the end for him?

Come home Reina