I understand not liking the fact that the world’s best teams are heavily concentrated in a handful of leagues, sure. But that does not seem to me to be an issue that the structure of the Champions League has the power to address.
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You could absolutely make a tournament in which, say, in the play in round teams from the same league were forced to play against each other to ensure a variety of teams in the last 16. Obv that would lead to a different set of very real complaints. Likely from the same set of folks.
It’s obvious from election results around the world that people can be absolute idiots about their needs and desires, which are often conflicting and/or unachievable
A return to the traditional knockout format would address that issue. But the current format is an improvement on the group stage imo, so I agree that criticism doesn't make much sense in 2025.
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But yeah, in some of the cases that I'm seeing this complaint, it seems like a complaint bumped up the queue because other complaints didn't turn out