“Good harvest, my dear farmers,” German representative Mats Hummels of Borussia Dortmund greeted the English two weeks ago via the X network.
We get it, the reference needs some explaining.
Good harvest this week my fellow farmers 🤝 🇩🇪
— Mats Hummels (@matshummels) April 19, 2024
In recent seasons, the Premier League has bounced back financially from other recognized leagues. For English clubs with a dose of exaggeration, the other European clubs are farms from which they can draw anyone they want. The farm system is very familiar to a Czech sports fan, for example from the NHL abroad.
In the field of football, for example, France was often referred to as the “League of Peasants”. The French were basically training top players for more famous clubs.
The star Kylian Mbappé also remembered this, when two French teams advanced four years ago – Lyon and PSG Mbappé – to the semi-finals of the Champions League.
LET FARMERS 🤡
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @OL
– Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) August 15, 2020
Now word of a revolution on lowland farms is on the airwaves again. There is no representative from the Premier League in the current edition of the Champions League, while the weaker German Bundesliga has provided two representatives.
Only Aston Villa remained in the last four of the two remaining European Cups from England’s ambassadors, who, however, lost sensationally 2:4 against Greece’s Olympiakos in the semi-final of Conference League Thursday.
In the previous three seasons, English clubs collected the most points in the national coefficient, in this year’s ranking the English belong to the third place without being able to go higher. The present retreat is more painful to the English than ever. Next season, the Champions League will change its format and expand the number of participants from 32 to 36.
🇮🇹 Italy and 🇩🇪 Germany are the best 2 of this year’s coefficient race! Both will receive a bonus Champions League ticket for next season.
🇩🇪 Germany is on course to beat the best European season ever in terms of coefficients (19/20) by a full point. pic.twitter.com/TgLvXjji14
— Nils Mackay (@NilsMackay) May 3, 2024
UEFA has planned that two of the vacant places will go to the strongest leagues. However, the Italians and Germans blew an extra spot for the English, who have Bayern Munich, Dortmund and Leverkusen still in the game for European trophies.
It is marked on the “farms”. The Germans and Italians will have five special representatives in the elite competition.
2024-05-04 10:06:47
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