According to Rio Ferdinand, He believes that English club's failure in the Champions League in recent years is due to the world's best players are no longer playing in the Premier League.
Alongside with Arsenal, Chelsea, and Man Utd all crashing out of Europe, appalling British results in the past five seasons, and the 2010/11 Manchester United Champions League runner-up spot wiped off the UEFA coefficient record books - a Juventus win would have given the Italians the opportunity to overtake England in those rankings and steal a Champions League spot.
If both Liverpool and Manchester City could lift silverware in Europe this season, then the fourth-place team in the Premier League may drop into the Europa League
Th exit of Juventus from the Champions League at the last 16 stage shows that the Premier League will retain four places in the competition for the 2017/18 season.
Manchester Cityhave reached the last eight of the Champions League for the first time this week with a 3-1 aggregate win over Dynamo Kiev, while Liverpool got past Manchester United on Thursday night to reach the Europa League quarter-final. There have been reports that the league would dangle a carrot in the shape of a financial inducement for clubs to do well in the Europa League. The oldest season that now contributes to the UEFA coefficient is 2011-12, when England picked up 15.250 points and Italy got just 11.357.
Barcelona support the creation of a European Super League that would break away from the Champions League, a Vice-President confirms.
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