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Real Madrid, Barcelona, PSG, Juve and others have become short-termist as domestic success has bred complacency
Just wait for the knockout phase of the Champions League. That’s when the season really gets going, that’s when the real football begins. That’s when you get the festival that justifies the tedium of the group stage, the greatest football ever played, the glorious pay-off for the grotesque iniquities of the game’s financial structure.
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Written by Jonathan Wilson
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/mar/08/champions-league-europe-elite-grown-fat-jonathan-wilson under the title “Champions League elite have got fat on easy dominance and quality has suffered | Jonathan Wilson”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
