Just watched Match of the Day from the weekend. It’s sickening to watch teams that finished 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th celebrating the guaranteed riches that come with Champions League group stage qualification. Meanwhile all over Europe real champions are having to play nerve shredding qualifiers where failure has real financial consequences. (Just ask the sevvies…Malmo twice). 5th in the EPL is deemed more worthy than the champions of Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, Norway and many many more.
The big 5 ( Fra, Eng, Spain, Germany, Italy) are running a cabal where the bulk of champions league money ends up in their league.
All the FAs involved are members of UEFA. They need to put this right.
How can finishing 5th get ye in the Group Stages?
Why do National FAs who are UEFA members allow this?