Since the Champions League format is about to change anyway, here is a constructive proposal for a new method: the 36 teams starting in September will compete for the right to crown Real Madrid. The winner of the Champions League final at the end of May will get a chance to celebrate briefly on the grass, raise the trophy for a brief moment, and then present it with a certificate to the eternal champion. In this way, the prestigious tournament will become much more equal and interesting, while recognizing the greatness of the Blancos and cherishing them.
Laughter and cynicism aside – Real Madrid is really huge, eternal, unbelievable. Its 15th win last night at Wembley only contributed and added a layer to the mighty myth of a club and a team that smash every historical record, and are never satisfied. Not only that: she even succeeds in fooling her opponents and giving them the feeling that this time, just this time, she appears in a different cloak, faded and subduable, only to discover that it is Fata Morgana. Once it is a magnificent 120-minute bunker followed by a penalty shootout in the front yard of the best team in the world (Kross and Modric said), another time a player (Khoslo) that the coach discovered on his bench in the 85th minute, and another time of squeezing all the energy – and faith – of the opponent.
In Wembley 24 against Borussia Dortmund, as in Saint Denis 22 (against Liverpool) and even in Kiev 18 (Liverpool again), Real used the first 45 minutes of the final to show vulnerability – and somehow come out of it unscathed. She had already reached the second half after making all the necessary adjustments (FINE TUNING), and from the moment she took the lead, completely eliminated her opponent from the game and from the dreams of the podium.
This huge magic unit, Real “Houdini” Madrid, is truly a team for all times. She is without a doubt the undisputed champion of the mini-era (currently) of the first quarter of the 21st century, and you will know what else she has planned for us next.
Actually, it’s not hard to guess. Kylian Mbappe is now knocking on her door. If she completed all her recent maneuvers without a natural central striker, then one can already imagine what awaits all of her challengers with the presence of the French at her tip. Rodrigo-Bellingham-Ambappa-Vinicius. My God, in this lineup she will also win the Grand National horse race and the Cambridge-Oxford boat race. Of course, only after you give your competitors a feeling that here, today it is possible.
Which probably means that the chance that the Champions League will be as innovative as the NBA League for example – 6 different champions in six seasons – is slim. Not only the big money is responsible for this, but also UEFA’s attempts to reduce the influence of the small, less fashionable teams, such as Dortmund for example, whose budget is half that of Real Madrid. From now on, with the Champions League built on one league of 36 teams in a format aimed at To give privileges to the rich and powerful, we will have to settle for less underdog bites and the successes of unfashionable clubs. In fact, the new Champions League will try to resemble as much as possible the idea of the Super League that arose, fell, and scared UEFA to its core.
From the solution she found, we can perhaps hope for at least something new, but more entertainment: quality and exciting monumental confrontations along the lines of the 3:3 between Real and Manchester City and the 2:3 of Barcelona in Paris. If their number increases, we will be judged, even when Mbappe lifts the trophy with the big ears on May 31, 2025 at the Allianz Arena in Munich.
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