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da betway： The continuing decline of Premier League representatives in European competition has allowed people to once again speculate that England could lose the prized fourth Champions League spot. It’s seen as a privileged bonus and one that teams should fight to preserve. But maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if England lost it for a while?At first that sounds like crazy talk. Why would anybody turn down a ticket for the best party in town? The problem is English teams have been the rowdy gate-crashers for some time. The flash big spenders that cause a lot of fuss and get sent home early with a headache. Throughout the decline of English teams’ performance in the Champions League the technical level of the Premier League has suffered. The two are interlinked.UEFA undoubtedly sell the Champions League to chairman as the financial yellow brick road. The pot available for distribution to participating clubs currently stands at €1.257bn per season. Couple that with the ever-increasing television deals the Premier League can secure, and suddenly English clubs are living by that favourite line primary school teachers like to use: It’s not the winning, it’s the taking part that counts.That’s not to say teams wouldn’t mind becoming champions of Europe, but it is just a bonus, secondary to collecting constant Champions League revenues. The current model has turned all English sides into the Aston Villa of Europe; they’re just happy to be there without attacking the root cause of their deficiencies.Finishing fourth in a domestic league should be sickening if you consider yourself to be a top club with title winning credentials. Instead it’s becoming more and more a case of job done for the regular protagonists that battle it out for Champions League spots. Arsene Wenger has a job for life, not because he has won titles in the last ten years but thanks to his ability to always ensure European qualification.
If the fourth place was taken away, then one year Arsenal or Manchester United could miss out. Instead of feeling like they’d completed their mission, all eyes would switch to taking the title. The only sure-fire way to ensure Champions League football would be to have a decent title challenge.
The following season they could rebuild and focus primarily on this task. The Europa League games would be given to a second string as the first team tried to take the crown.
This singular focus from a big club would evolve the technical level of the domestic game. Behind them teams that had been freed of the Europa League could bolster their domestic push. Instead of having an exciting league because the standards are dropping we’d have a quality league with the ability to dominate Europe again.
A similar repeat of last year’s performance in Europe by English clubs could see the Champions League allocation reduced for 2017/18. Next season is already set but if Italy have another decent run the Premier League should be scared. Last year the Italian coefficient was 19 to England’s 13.571. Already English teams have exited the Europa League and Juventus have beaten Manchester City at the Etihad.
Juventus are an example of a side that needed a reset before re-emerging as a European force, finishing as runners-up in last season’s European showcase.
Sometimes it’s necessary to take one step back to take several forward…
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