UEFA's plans to supersize the Champions League will have a devastating effect on English football, according to Crystal Palace chairman, Steve Parish and EFL chairman, Rick Parry. Speaker after speaker suggested the plans to allocate the four extra spots for the revamped Champions League using UEFA rankings is inherently unfair. For example, if these rules were in place last season, Arsenal and Tottenham, who qualified for the Europa League, would have leapfrogged Leicester City in fifth place into a Champions League position. 'It does affect domestic competition if we boost teams into the Champions League from the Europa League. 'It is effectively an average annual revenue difference of 50m euros (£43m) for a team boosted from the Europa League to the Champions League.

Source: Daily Mail March 10, 2021 12:45 UTC