Revamp so unfair on fans – Moyes
football supporter. I don’t see where there are many people who could speak positively about this being a good process for the future.
“I’m guessing behind it is that this is some way to keep them from going into any other leagues, that they’re going to try to reward the teams that are used to the Champions League because they’re going to need the money to keep building their teams.
“But I don’t think it’s what we’ve been brought up on.
“It seems really unfair to the football pyramid.
“We have a brilliant league here and the Champions League has been an incredible success, the games we are watching at the moment, the quality of the football, the teams...
“But the group stages are probably the bit now where you think, ‘I’ve seen Inter Milan against Liverpool a few times’ and if you’re going to go back to seeing the same teams again, we’ll all get pretty bored of it.
“So we want new teams to qualify because, through the years, we have seen some of the teams who have made it.
“Villarreal last year beat Manchester United in the Europa League and they are now playing in the semi-finals of the Champions League.
“Imagine one of us getting into that situation and not then getting the chance to show what we can do.
“We want to try to mix it with the big boys when we get the chance.
“Supporters are the bedrock of football and if there are a lot of clubs saying, ‘Sorry, we’re not really caring about your supporters, we don’t want your supporters seeing a European game, we don’t want your supporters seeing your team in one of the competitions or in a semi-final in Europe,’ that is really what’s beginning to happen.
“We have to stop it before it gets too far down the line.”