{"id":71727,"date":"2026-10-23T07:52:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/?p=71727"},"modified":"2026-10-23T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T07:52:31","slug":"louis-van-gaal-has-launched-a-scathing-attack-on-uefas-new-champions-league-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/23\/louis-van-gaal-has-launched-a-scathing-attack-on-uefas-new-champions-league-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis van Gaal has launched a scathing attack on UEFA&#8217;s new Champions League format:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tfb\/1\/16\/1f5e3.png\"> \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous that UEFA came up with this competition format. Nowadays, anyone can participate. UEFA only thinks about making money. It\u2019s a corrupt world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s called the Champions League, isn\u2019t it? The best teams should be playing in it. There would be fewer differences in quality and fewer goals, but the matches would be of a much higher standard and the football would be much better.\u201d <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83d\ude33\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t2e\/1\/16\/1f633.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83c\udfc6\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/tbe\/1\/16\/1f3c6.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you agree with him? <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" alt=\"\ud83e\udd14\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t34\/1\/16\/1f914.png\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous that UEFA came up with this competition format. Nowadays, anyone can participate. UEFA only thinks about making money. It\u2019s a corrupt world.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71729,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71727\/revisions\/71729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freesuperpredict.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}