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(Written by Arthur Antunes Coimbra)Today’s British newspapers whetted our appetite before tonight’s clash between Scotland’s runaway leaders – Celtic, and the present leaders of the Premiership - Manchester United, by providing us with the thoughts of Gordon Strachan on the comparison of the two clubs.
Strachan commented: "I know the league in Scotland isn't the Premiership, but the gap isn't what most of you think. I think sometimes you pat yourselves on the back too much. I've seen some dire matches in the Premiership, as you do in every league. And I do think we would compete in the top half of the Premiership all right."
The purpose of the Champions League is to have a competition whereby the domestic champions of Europe all meet to determine who are the best of the best. This is meant to be the definitive yardstick to judge how good a club is. Strachan, however, preferred to analyze the quality of his side by hypothesizing how successful Celtic would be if they played their domestic football in the Premiership. Despite Celtic's recent 3-2 defeat to United, they presently occupy second place in their group and there is much to be optimistic about in terms of progression in the Champions League.
Yet he does not use the barometer of the Champions League to assess the competitiveness of his side. Why not?
Gabriele Marcotti yesterday wrote a critique of the problems facing Europe’s premier club competition. He observed that "in the past 15 years, only two clubs from outside Europe’s five biggest leagues have reached the final, Porto and Ajax… If anything, the gap has grown this year. Europe’s "Big Five" — Germany, France, England, Italy and Spain — are likely to supply 13 of the 16 clubs who will qualify from the Champions League group stage…[The Champions League] has effectively become a closed shop, limited to clubs from five nations".
The conclusion is that the Champions League offers little long term hope of success for Celtic. Strachan knows that Celtic will not win the competition. So he chose to back up his beliefs that Celtic can challenge United by contrasting with his opponents in the hypothetical only. Facts would have been his undoing.
This conclusion comes to the detriment of the Champions League. Today, as Marcotti noted, "European Cup winners, such as Ajax and Benfica, are drifting towards obscurity… [and] teams such as AS Roma, Valencia or Arsenal — with no European Cups between them — are considered bigger and more attractive". The reason for this is that the weekly competition faced by Celtic, Ajax or Benfica fails to challenge these teams into improvement, and so they stagnate. Such stagnation is then only recognized when these teams appear on the European stage.
So where do we go from here?
Marcotti proffered the solution of regional leagues. The Atlantic League, for example, would comprise "the best clubs in the Netherlands, Belgium, Scotland and Portugal. These clubs would break away from their domestic leagues and play each other instead" whilst still remaining involved in the Champions League. The rationale is that "the standard of competition for clubs within the Atlantic League would rise, making the teams better and helping them to attract better players, leading to a virtuous cycle that would further improve the quality of the league."
There are many questions which Marcotti fails to present answers for. How would entrance to the Champions League work in conjunction with these regional leagues? Who would decide which teams are the "best clubs" in each domestic league – and how? And what would happen to the clubs who were not selected?
Finding solutions to these issues is not simple. However, when teams like Celtic cannot progress as a result of the domestic leagues they find themselves in, something proactive must be done. The objective of breaking the stranglehold of the Big Five on the European game needs to be fulfilled for the greater good of the game.
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