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    Keir RADNEDGE

    Jul 19, 2019 4 minutes

    UEFA club battle on the horizon

    A showdown is looming over the future of European club competitions. The major teams and leagues have been rattling their sabres in preparation with headline-grabbing jabs in the face of UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin.

    The Slovene is growing irritable at the demands for one change or another, all aimed at expansion to generate more money. Clubs want more money to feed the appetite for trophies while UEFA wants more cash for its development programmes.

    Expansion would also either favour the grandees of the club game (think more money for Barcelona, Real Madrid, etc) or the leagues (more money but nothing to upset their domestic schedules) or the middle and lower ranking clubs

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