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Originally Posted by Addick
From an Arsenal point of view I'd like the prestige of keeping them separate but would also like the increased security of advancing to the more lucrative stages of the CL. For Arsenal, I guess it depends on whether or not they believe they'll be able to compete on a more level footing with their new commercial deals.
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Based on how their board has acted towards finances I think they would 100% support it
5 years ago maybe not, but going forward
Man United will always be there
Chelsea and Man City play billionaire football
Liverpool are down now but a club that size will become competitive again in the next 5 years
Spurs have upped their spending and will have a new stadium within 5 years which would put them on par financially with Arsenal and Man United for highest revenues in the PL every year
there are going to be 6 teams going forward which could easily finish top 4, and missing out on that 30m+ for making the group stages is a huge risk
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Originally Posted by SeoulFire
and potentially many more fixtures in an already packed schedule (unless they work out some sort of top qualifier exemption). FA and League will suffer even more in terms of the quality of the teams put forward by the big teams.
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I don't think it would add many games for the big teams
they would probably just do 16 groups in that stage instead of 8, so the teams in the 4-6 range say in their countries would have to qualify, but it shouldn't add many extra games