New Champions League: More Matches, More Money, More ... Problems?

Stadio: A Football Podcast

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Sports

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

There's chat about some results (01:44), and then Ryan and Musa move on to the main topic, the men's Champions League—as well as the Europa and Conference Leagues—reforming for this season (06:46). They run through the new league formats, their initial thoughts about the changes and what it might mean going forward, with huge numbers of games and reports of player fatigue ahead of a season that will also see the new Club World Cup take place next summer. They ask (yet again) whether there is too much football, whether this is what fans actually want and whether there is another way to balance commercial and sporting interests—or whether even more football is the new normal. Hosts: Ryan Hunn and Musa Okwonga Producer: Ryan Hunn Additional Production: Jonathan Fisher and Alex Adey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome back to the studio podcast I'm Miss Oquanga I'm Ryan
0:26.2	Hun. Ryan how you doing right thanks man how are you? Very well indeed. You have a
0:30.7	hoodie on yes I do that concerns me yeah it's the rainfall this morning man
0:37.6	temperature it was like really hot this weekend I was like the last the last hurrah for the summer and it was funny because the heat
0:44.5	like it held at about 30 degrees for like a good five hours that I thought now this is
0:49.7	you know like last night I went out for a walk last night and I'm like, the rain's coming.
0:53.0	It's over.
0:54.0	Like yeah, the skies felt like, you know, we're tired of this.
0:57.0	We're tired.
0:58.0	Musa looked over, parts of East Berlin said,
1:01.0	Winter is coming. Winter is coming.
1:02.6	Winter is coming.
1:03.6	We hope everyone stay in the same way before we get going.
1:06.5	Today we're going to have just a little bit of a chat.
1:08.8	We're not going to go over the football that's been going on.
1:11.0	We might mention a few results, but it's men's international break. There's been going on we might mention a few results but it's men's international
1:14.0	break has been women's championship qualifiers what we are going to do today is
1:19.0	we're going to talk about the new men's championship league format I mean it's the new European format in men's championship
1:24.0	men's competition and just kind of zoom out a little bit
1:27.2	how that's gonna affect stuff we've got the the new club world cup
1:31.2	landing next summer as well.
1:33.0	We'll do that and then we'll get out here.
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