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Friday, 16 November, 2001, 19:40 GMT
Superleague: Good for Europe's domestic game?
![]() Europe's fourteen most powerful football clubs have been meeting in Paris.
Each time the G14 meets the amount of influence it wields over European football games appears to increase and the prospect of a European Superleague draws ever closer. It's seemed more obvious than ever this season that teams save their star players for the European matches putting forward weaker teams for their domestic league games. The Europewide debate this week asks: Would a European Superleague permanently damage the domestic game? Europe Today's Katya Adler brought together two football fanatics, the BBC's Teresa Guerreiro and first the French freelance journalist, Philippe Auclair. This debate is now closed. Read a selection of your comments below.
Your reaction
The Champions League in its current structure needs to be looked at. It's not right that one country can have as many as 4 teams competing when the champions of other nations have to take part in at least 1 qualifying round. It should be kept just for champions and not devalued by the greed of the so-called G14 who care only about money and ruining football as a game.
How dare Roy Rocket spread his irrational and poorly researched diatribes on this site. Second and Third Division clubs are the very lifeblood of the British game, tied into more than the money-grubbing big business of Premiership football. To create a European Superleague would damage the heritage of the country as a whole, and not just sport.
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