Thanks to the reward of "German Rumble" and "Jingye ○ Beacon Song"! ――

The G14 itself does not want to be too publicized during the UEFA election campaign, and wants to keep a low profile, so as to dilute the impression of Johansson's struggle with the G14 during his past administration, after all, UEFA has been reforming for many years, and the G14 will is behind the scenes.

But after Platini made his campaign platform public, the G14, especially the elite at the top, could not remain silent.

Let's take a look at Platini's election platform, or what he promised to do about reform.

In addition to some beautiful words, what "return football to the players", "unity of the football world", "fight against racial discrimination and drug banning" and the like, the most important thing is actually two points.

First: Say no to the G14!

This shows a stand!

Second, reform the Champions League!

As he put it: "Europe is not the United States, and the Champions League cannot learn from the NBA." Since any member of UEFA can play in the European Championship, so should the Champions League. Since Andorra have the right to take on England at Old Trafford, Malta's club players are also entitled to see Ronaldinho at home. ”

If so, what will be reformed?

Mercilessly to cut the number of wealthy families!

A country can only have a maximum of 3 teams in the Champions League!

It definitely won't work to do this directly, but he also came up with a compromise!

Qualification for the Champions League! As well as the rules for the qualifying draw!

Previously, there were only 16 places for direct entry to the Champions League. Platini will increase to 22. This includes direct benefits to the 11th to 13th largest European countries. The winning team will get a direct ticket to the Champions League!

The rules of the qualifiers will be changed to "Unseeded Teams"!

This means that the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, these top four and top five leagues in Europe, have qualified for the Champions League play-offs. There is a high probability that there will be a direct conversation in the play-offs!

As a result, the number of giant teams entering the main competition will be relatively reduced!

On the other hand, the relatively weak teams that enter the qualifying round will have a reduced chance of encountering the giants, and the probability of reaching the main tournament will also increase!

At this point, the G14 is not alone, and in addition to the giants who came forward to warn Platini not to change the rules without authorization, the media from the football powerhouse are also on the side of the G14.

For example, the BBC pessimistically predicted that if Platini fulfilled all his promises, that day would come when Platini would receive the most reproach of his life, and only on that day would the fans know. That Champions League they knew and loved had been ruined.

The gap between strength and weakness in the Champions League is already obvious, just like the top Millwall can use all substitutes to qualify in the group stage. There are more and more characters who accompany the prince to study, and the UEFA Champions League, the gold content of this "champion" will be greatly reduced!

There are inevitably differences of interest within the G14, such as Lyon, despite completing many years of domination in the country, in the Champions League, they have always been either dark horses or soy sauce, and their strength has not been widely recognized, and there is a huge gap in economic interests.

And Platini's reforms, is it good for Lyon?

Yes!

He is a squad bully in Ligue 1, and he does not have to play in the play-offs to qualify directly for the Champions League.

Then there are a few strong giants in the Champions League, for example, the top four teams in the Premier League, Millwall, needless to say, Lyon will definitely die if they meet! Chelsea also abused him without discussion, Manchester United got serious, and there was nothing to say about crushing Lyon, Liverpool finished fourth last season, and before that it was Arsenal, these two teams, Lyon met, it is difficult to say that they are absolutely sure, even afraid!

If Liverpool, who are playing in the play-offs this season, or a team in the future Premier League title group, are eliminated in the play-offs against Italian or Spanish teams, or whoever is eliminated and who advances, it will be equivalent to helping Lyon improve the probability of going further in the Champions League.

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 race, but it still has some impact.

Looking at the whole of Europe, there are teams that envy, envy and hate G14 everywhere, Platini's preaching of saying no to G14 is to cater to the weaker masses of these league strength teams, Platini has not yet taken the position, Lyon defected, which makes these people see the hope of the fall of G14! Of course, I will support Platini even more firmly!

After the UEFA election, the G14 held an impromptu summit, and this time at the meeting in Brussels, Millwall, on behalf of Carter, as the rotating chairman, criticized the members of the three French clubs in person, and even scolded the dirty words!

Millwall's allies, the elite clubs that also boycotted Platini, sided with Millwall, and the meeting that day was more like a meeting of criticism, and Carter even spoke harshly at the end.

"If you can't be united with us! Okay, get out of G14 and we'll have new members on board! ”

The movements of the G14 are also followed by the outside media.

At the end of the meeting, Carter left the hotel in the same way as the rest of the delegates, with the others either expressionless and unable to guess what was being discussed, while Carter was smiling and smiling like he had been in a rage at the meeting.

This is the basic rule of the football circle: internal problems, internal solutions!

It's no surprise that the Premier League bosses' roundtable meetings are also such a tradition.

During the secret meeting, they stabbed each other, and after leaving the meeting, they could talk and laugh and give the outside world a false impression.

This is also an important reason why the Premier League has been able to fight with the FA for a long time and become independent.

Unite! Unite for the sake of profit!

But just after Carter flew back to London, he received a call from his assistant. Immediately scolded: "UEFA can't be so shameless!" Hire me the best team of lawyers. If you can't, you can sue them! ”

The knockout rounds of the Champions League are about to begin. Before that, there will be a ceremony where Millwall will have to return the Champions League trophy they won last season to UEFA as it is the real thing, and UEFA will also give Millwall a miniature replica trophy for the club to collect.

So, when UEFA decided on the place and time to return the trophy, it sent a fax to Millwall Club to officially inform them of the incident!

Here's the problem!

Year 2004. In 2005 and 2006, Millwall won the Champions League in a row, three times in a row!

They have the right to keep this genuine Champions League trophy in perpetuity!

UEFA is now asking for it back?

Aldrich and Carter stood in front of the window of the club's conference room and smoked.

In the conference room, the staff is busy, focusing on UEFA's rules for the Champions League.

It was already evening, and Carter came to the club in the afternoon to deal with it.

Aldrich spat out the smoke out of the window and sighed in disgust: "Zhengzhì."

The Champions League is the most important brand under UEFA, and UEFA is the organizer. Must have absolute authority.

Just imagine, UEFA only has one official Champions League trophy. Millwall, on the other hand, has two genuine trophies, UEFA is not happy to see such a situation happen, coupled with Platini's desire to suppress the G14, reform the Champions League and other factors, UEFA is now making such a fuss, Aldridge is not too surprised.

A staff member suddenly got up and said: "Boss, the rules on UEFA's side are more ambiguous, and UEFA's official response is: Millwall won the Champions League for the fifth time, and the number of times the number of times to keep the real trophy was cleared." We're two in a row, not a triple. ”

Carter was furious and said angrily, "-! If I had known, I wouldn't have postponed the publicity plan to engrave my name on the trophy! UEFA, there must be a bottom limit for shamelessness! ”

In fact, Carter had studied that rule before, so he could mostly understand what kind of word games UEFA was playing.

Teams that have won three consecutive titles or won five times in a row have the right to retain the original Champions League trophy, and after the team has won three consecutive titles or five times in total, the statistics will be cleared.

In other words, Millwall's Champions League title in 2004 was listed as a five-time clearance cut-off.

In fact, in the context of the rules, this accumulation of five times should refer to the time when the real Champions League trophy is retained!

But when the rules were set, in addition to Real Madrid, only a few teams had achieved three consecutive championships, and only Real Madrid had won the championship more than 5 times!

Therefore, when the rules were established at that time, there was not much problem, and even if there was a problem, it was not something that the generation of people in power should worry about.

Now being used by UEFA, Millwall can only suffer a dumb loss, the trophy, to be returned to UEFA.

Carter was annoyed that in the summer of 2005, when Southgate retired, Millwall had just shown a genuine Champions League trophy with the name of a legendary player engraved on it, and in the summer of 2006 he got another one.

Well, Millwall is going to return the trophy to Zhao, if it is really insisted on carving their name on the trophy when UEFA has notified them to return the trophy, it will be a tear with UEFA!

"Alright, so be it."

Aldridge waited for an expected result, although UEFA did an ugly thing, it must have come prepared, and if Millwall could slap in the face, then the UEFA people would be in vain.

Moreover, even if there is controversy now, it is only temporary, and after a year or two, the smoke will disappear, and no one will care about what happened today.

However, before Aldridge led the team to Italy to challenge Inter Milan, at the pre-match Champions League press conference, he smiled lightly: "Maybe we and UEFA have a disagreement on keeping the real Champions League trophy, but it doesn't matter, Millwall cooperates with UEFA, we return the trophy to UEFA, as long as we continue to defend the Champions League this year, we can get the second Champions League real trophy, hehe, unless, UEFA immediately changes the rules for the retention of Champions League trophies in the next three months, Authenticity trophies are no longer given to clubs in perpetuity. (To be continued......)