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      HUYTON RED
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      Champions League 2016/2017
      Aug 25, 2016 04:59:00 pm
      Draw coming up shortly, but one of SSN reporters saying English teams will be guaranteed 4 placings for the 2018/2019 competition.
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      Reply #1: Aug 25, 2016 05:15:29 pm
      Just about to start now. The teams involved;

      Pot 1:
      Real Madrid, Barcelona, Leicester City, Bayern Munich, Juventus, Benfica, Paris Saint-German, CSKA Moscow

      Pot 2:
      Atletico Madrid, Borussia Dortmund, Arsenal, Manchester City, Sevilla, Porto, Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen

      Pot 3:
      Tottenham, Dynamo Kiev, Lyon, PSV Eindhoven, Sporting Lisbon, Club Bruges, Basle, Monchengladbach

      Pot 4:
      Monaco, Besiktas, Legia Warsaw, Ludogrets, Celtic, Rostov, Cophenagen, Dinamo Zagreb
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      Re: Champions League 2016/2017
      Reply #2: Aug 25, 2016 05:21:52 pm
      First time I've ever seen Rushie having trouble with a ball
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      Reply #3: Aug 25, 2016 05:54:14 pm
      Group A

      Paris St Germain
      Arsenal
      Basle
      Ludogorets

      Group B

      Benfica
      Napoli
      Dynamo Kiev
      Besiktas

      Group C

      Barcelona
      Man City
      Borussia Monchengladbach
      Celtic

      Group D

      Bayern Munich
      Atletico Madrid
      PSV Eindhoven
      Rostov

      Group E

      CSKA Moscow
      Bayer Leverkusen
      Tottenham Hotspur
      AS Monaco

      Group F

      Real Madrid
      Borussia Dortmund
      Sporting
      Legia Warsaw

      Group G

      Leicester
      Porto
      Club Bruges
      Copenhagen

      Group H

      Juventus
      Sevilla
      Lyon
      Dinamo Zagreb

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      Reply #4: Aug 25, 2016 05:54:31 pm
      The draw for the group stages are as follows:

      Group A:
      Paris Saint-Germain
      Arsenal
      FC Basel
      Ludogorets

      Group B:
      Benfica
      Napoli
      Dynamo Kyiv
      Besiktas

      Group C:
      Barcelona
      Manchester City
      Borussia Monchengladbach
      Celtic

      Group D:
      Bayern Munich
      Atletico Madrid
      PSV Eindhoven
      FC Rostov

      Group E:
      CSKA Moskow
      Bayer Leverkusen
      Tottenham Hotspur
      AS Monaco

      Group F:
      Real Madrid
      Borussia Dortmund
      Sporting Lisbon
      Legia Warsaw

      Group G:
      Leicester City
      FC Porto
      Club Brugge
      Cophenagen

      Group H:
      Juventus
      Sevilla
      Lyon
      Dinamo Zagreb
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      Reply #5: Aug 25, 2016 05:55:15 pm
      Group A

      Paris St Germain
      Arsenal
      Basle
      Ludogorets

      Group B

      Benfica
      Napoli
      Dynamo Kiev
      Besiktas

      Group C

      Barcelona
      Man City
      Borussia Monchengladbach
      Celtic

      Group D

      Bayern Munich
      Atletico Madrid
      PSV Eindhoven
      Rostov

      Group E

      CSKA Moscow
      Bayer Leverkusen
      Tottenham Hotspur
      AS Monaco

      Group F

      Real Madrid
      Borussia Dortmund
      Sporting
      Legia Warsaw

      Group G

      Leicester
      Porto
      Club Bruges
      Copenhagen

      Group H

      Juventus
      Sevilla
      Lyon
      Dinamo Zagreb



      :D Beat me to it!

      Leicester have to be taking confidence from that group!
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      Re: Champions League 2016/2017
      Reply #6: Aug 25, 2016 06:15:51 pm
      Group C

      Barcelona
      Man City
      Borussia Monchengladbach
      Celtic

      Woof. Celtic and The Brodge are going home at the group stage then :laugh:
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      Reply #7: Aug 25, 2016 06:48:18 pm
      Look forward too the real v Dortmund game & it had to happen with city meeting barca,Leicester must be happy with the group they are in.
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      Reply #8: Aug 25, 2016 06:54:17 pm
      Woof. Celtic and The Brodge are going home at the group stage then :laugh:

      Should have said having a hiding at the group stage especially as Tpm has a penchant for keeping back his best players for the following league game ,
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      Reply #9: Aug 25, 2016 07:12:45 pm
      Should have said having a hiding at the group stage especially as Tpm has a penchant for keeping back his best players for the following league game ,

      Doubt that will happen in a league with the likes of Ross County, Dundee...and Rangers.
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      Reply #10: Aug 25, 2016 07:22:39 pm
      Doubt that will happen in a league with the likes of Ross County, Dundee...and Rangers.
      Won't be too long before Rangers are back on their tail . As has been proved on many occasions. You don't have to be that good to succeed up there ,
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      Reply #11: Aug 25, 2016 08:25:49 pm
      Buzzing fixtures, I hope Celtic do well in this competition, they recently showed solidarity with the Palestinian people & their struggles, with the threat of a fine from UEFA.

      I hope to see more Palestinian flags at Parkhead to highlight the struggle of Palestine.
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      Reply #12: Aug 26, 2016 01:41:27 pm
      Premier League clubs in line for four Champions League group-stage places in competition shake-up


      England was on Thursday set to be handed four permanent Champions League group stage places under a revamp of the competition from the season after next.

      The club which finishes fourth in the Premier League would no longer have to play a qualifier to gain entry to the tournament proper in a move that would stave off the threat of a breakaway European Super League before 2021.

      Uefa was scheduled to meet the European Club Association, whose members include the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester City, to finalise a deal ahead of the Champions League draw in Monaco.

      An agreement to hand four guaranteed places to teams from England, Spain, Italy and Germany would end months of uncertainty over the future of the competition, which has seen ideas discussed as radical as a Super League, guaranteed places for the biggest clubs ­regardless of how they fare domestically, and Saturday fixtures.

      Those changes have been driven by the top Spanish and Italian clubs, partly over fear about the growing financial gulf between them and Premier League teams and partly to try to make the Champions League group stage more attractive.

      England’s so-called big five were caught earlier this year attending a meeting at which the prospect of a European Super League was floated but they denied any interest in the idea.

      Such a breakaway was never a ­realistic prospect anyway, with a proposal for teams from the big four leagues to be given four permanent Champions League places a much more likely outcome.

      Had this format existed in this season’s competition, City would not have needed to contest a play-off round against Romania’s runners-up Steaua Bucharest.

      The big winners from the proposed revamp would be clubs from Italy, which currently has just three Champions League places, only two of them permanent.

      The side finishing third in Serie A has failed to reach the group stages in six of the past seven years, Roma being the latest after going down 4-1 to Porto on aggregate after losing 3-0 at home on Tuesday.

      Although Uefa could lift the threat of a play-off defeat for the biggest clubs, it is likely to retain in some form the co-efficient system that would still lead to England surrendering its fourth Champions League spot if Premier League sides badly underperform in Europe over a number of seasons.

      Uefa and the ECA declined to comment on the nature of the deal they are poised to sign, with the former saying only it “expects to announce the evolution” of the Champions League.

      That is sooner than billed, with European football’s governing body having previously played down the prospect of finalising changes until later this year.

      Such amendments are only possible every three years due to Uefa’s broadcast deals, the current incarnations of which expire in 2018, with those for the 2018-21 seasons going out to tender early next year.

      An earlier-than-anticipated ­revamp announcement may be ­politically motivated, with the ­organisation in the process of electing a new president.

      Aleksander Ceferin, the head of the Slovenian Football Association, is the favourite to succeed the disgraced Michel Platini and there may be concerns about the potential for him to interfere in the process were a deal not to be struck ahead of next month’s ballot.

      The other two candidates, Spain’s acting Uefa president Ángel María Villar Llona and Dutchman Michael van Praag, are already members of the body’s ruling executive committee.

      Seferin was poised to meet officials from the English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish football associations on Thursday in an attempt to add their support to 20-plus pledges of support for his candidacy he proclaims to already possess.

      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/08/24/premier-league-clubs-in-line-for-four-champions-league-group-sta/

      Once again money talks... there is also talks about moving Champions League games to weekends. :roll:
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      Reply #13: Aug 26, 2016 02:16:38 pm
      Let's be honest. This competition has become pretty sh*t the last few years.
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      Reply #14: Aug 26, 2016 04:52:53 pm
      Let's be honest. This competition has become pretty sh*t the last few years.

      I always thought that was just me because we weren't in it. :P
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      Reply #15: Aug 26, 2016 05:28:01 pm
      17 seconds but I'm calling a tie because TK91 took time to use bold, lazy HR, lazy. ;)

      Hahaha was going to bold it up but nephew turned up, so had to shut lappy down and have a lightsaber fight with him instead :laugh:

      Leicester have to be taking confidence from that group!

      I know they got some luck with that draw. Looking at it if they can get the right results they should be looking at at least qualifying for the knockout stages. Porto will definitely be a test for them, but can see them getting decent results from the other two teams.

      Will be interesting how they handle this plus Premier League games as well.
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      Reply #16: Aug 27, 2016 10:20:16 am
      It seems just so wrong we are not in this again.
      Cant wait to watch the big games again nothing quite like them who did UTD get .  City must be in with a chance now with a manager who knows how to win the competition and a blank cheque book.
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      Reply #17: Aug 28, 2016 03:30:58 pm
      Can't see the point of this competition any more.

      We all know that the winner will be one of 3 of 4 clubs.

      The whole thing is designed to keep the big clubs in it.

      The knockout way is far better, but of course means less games, which means less money, at lets be honest, it's all about the money, not the game, not the fans, but the money, like X-Factor, sh*te.

      I'd of course want us in it, but as it's on PPV TV, money again, I won't be going out of my way to follow it.
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      Reply #18: Sep 13, 2016 12:29:07 pm
      love the CL games especially the big games the ones that used to bring Anfield alive. Hope we will be back soon but tonight see Celtic at Barcelona which will be interesting to say the least after Barca losing to Alaves and Celtic destroying Rangers.
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      Reply #19: Sep 13, 2016 04:24:45 pm
      Can't see the point of this competition any more.

      We all know that the winner will be one of 3 of 4 clubs.

      The whole thing is designed to keep the big clubs in it.

      The knockout way is far better, but of course means less games, which means less money, at lets be honest, it's all about the money, not the game, not the fans, but the money, like X-Factor, sh*te.

      I'd of course want us in it, but as it's on PPV TV, money again, I won't be going out of my way to follow it.

      Yeah I agree. Even the quality of winning managers the last few years has sort of impacted negatively on the tournament. Luis Enrique for instance showed what a thoroughly unremarkable manager he was at Roma yet was lucky to inherit the managerial job at Barca which had the greatest attacking lineup seen in modern football. And then there was Zinedine Zidane who took over the Real job, his first managerial stint, midway through last season and conspired to win the trophy with a level of football that did not exactly enliven the imagination despite the hundreds of millions on show. And I won't even begin to bring forth the example of Di Matteo and Chelsea. Had Klopp in 2013 or Simeone in 2014 and this year won the title with their teams then it'd would have given the competition a good shot in the arm.

      Anyone says that it's not a sh*t competition just point to the semi final of Man City v Real last season. That was an offence to football.
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      Reply #20: Sep 13, 2016 05:23:27 pm
      Yeahhh!! Didn't want to be in anyways, so the jokes on them  :action-smiley-055:  :rasp:
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      Reply #21: Sep 13, 2016 05:48:35 pm
      Yeahhh!! Didn't want to be in anyways, so the jokes on them  :action-smiley-055:  :rasp:

      No one's making that point or insinuating it. That we compete in the Premier League every year and that we almost won it two years ago hasn't stopped many of us saying that the league's quality is not nearly as good as it was say 8, 9 or 10 years ago.
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      Re: Champions League 2016/2017
      Reply #22: Sep 13, 2016 09:05:17 pm
      Brendan Rodgers picking up where he left off in Europe.

      5-0 Barca.

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