Since the Frenchman Gabriel Jarno advocated the establishment of a fixed competition between European clubs in 1955-the European Club Cup, to the 05-06 season, the UEFA Champions League has experienced 50 years of history. In the middle of the year, the Champions League grew out of nothing, from the cup to the league, the name change, the repeated adjustment of the competition system, and many changes. But what remains the same is that this is a game that symbolizes the highest honor among European football clubs.

There may be fans who often argue about which country has the highest league level, and which country’s league is the first league in Europe. But when it comes to the club's highest honor, no one will question the authority of the Champions League.

In previous years, even in football, there was even such a saying: The World Cup is not as good as the UEFA Champions League in terms of viewing, standard, and authority. There is also an extreme statement, hoping to cancel the World Cup, watching the Champions League is enough.

Of course, this is ridiculous, no one takes it seriously.

But this shows the status of the Champions League.

For current football clubs, participating in the Champions League is not just about honor, it is more about the budget of a club for the new season. A large number of ticket revenues, TV dividends and bonuses for each game make many clubs their highest goal of breaking into the Champions League. Many small teams in small leagues can gain countless rewards as long as they can enter the Champions League once. Money, it can even be said that if a team in deep financial crisis breaks into the Champions League, it is likely to bring this team back to life. This is the power of money and the power of the Champions League.

This point is still attractive to the current Forest team.

Evan Daugherty is not Abramovich and cannot invest unlimited funds into the club. He is not able to make the club lose 100 million pounds a year and win the championship, and he lives very well.

Participating in the Champions League is a very useful supplement to the Forest team's finances. The Forest team will have more funds invested in the transfer market, into the club's daily operations and facility construction.

In Allen’s budget report to Evan, it was pointed out that as long as the team can enter the Champions League main game every season, then the club’s financial situation will continue to improve and there is no need to rely on Evan’s personal capital injection. This club can be self-sufficient and profitable.

There are two key points in the division of the Champions League. One is to establish seed teams to ensure that the strong teams do not meet prematurely, and the other is that many people know it well but are inconvenient to make public-artificial control of the draw.

Is the drawing fair? Not necessarily, the lottery is also controlled by human factors. This approach was first proposed for "political considerations" to prevent teams from some politically nervous countries from accidentally being grouped together. Such as the Soviet Union and Albania, Greece and Turkey. Later, the political influence gradually faded, and artificial control became the main means of ensuring box office and broadcast revenue.

Dunn absolutely does not believe that it is a "coincidence" that Chelsea and Barcelona have met together for three consecutive years. Everyone likes to see Barcelona, ​​the representative of art football, and the upstart Chelsea, and the result of the draw is also satisfied. Everyone’s wish. Of course, this draw is not a group stage draw, but a second draw after entering the knockout stage. Barcelona and Chelsea have been drawn together for two consecutive years. For the third time, the two enemy teams are directly placed. The same group.

This is the situation in Dun En's memory. In the Champions League last season, in the eighth-finals, Chelsea eliminated Barcelona in two rounds, and the two teams forged a grudge. He doesn't remember the lottery of the Champions Cup group stage this season. He can only sit here and wait for the result.

The Champions League group stage is divided into eight groups, with English letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H. Each group has a seeded team. UEFA will divide the 32 teams into four grades, first determine the seeded team for each group, and then draw out the four teams from each group by grade.

The seeded team of Group A is Serie A "Old Women" Juventus.

The seeded team of Group B is La Liga giants Barcelona.

The seeded team of Group C is England "Gunner" Arsenal.

The seeded team of Group D is from La Liga, the Champions League has won the most "Galaxy Battleship" Real Madrid.

Group E seeded team Italian giants AC Milan.

The seeded team of Group F is England "Red Devils" Manchester United.

The seeded team of Group G is the traditional strong team of England, Liverpool.

The seeded team of Group H is from Milan, Italy-Inter Milan.

After identifying the seeded teams of the eight groups, other teams were drawn.

As the small **** were taken out of the glass cylinder and opened, a piece of paper with the name of the club was displayed in front of the TV camera and then transmitted to the big screen. There were endless exclamations, joys, and complaints.

Destiny's hands fiddled with the ball in the box, as well as the mood of all the coaches present.

Because the Forest team entered the Champions League again in twenty-four years, no matter how brilliant they were twenty-four years ago, they can only be counted as a fourth-tier team, and they will be drawn out at last.

Mourinho’s Chelsea was ranked in the second-tier team. When the person in charge of drawing the group turned on G, the second person drew out a note with "Chelsea", and the scene sounded for the first time. A widespread commotion.

In the Champions League last season, it was Liverpool who eliminated Chelsea in the semi-finals before reaching the final and creating that classic reversal. Unexpectedly, the two friends met again today. Some people whistled and gloated while others watched the show coldly. Mourinho was stern and expressionless, while Benitez frowned.

Who can believe that UEFA's draw is free from human manipulation?

At least Mourinho and Benitez don't believe it now.

Dunn thought of what Mourinho said to him before: "The chances of teams in the same league being in a group are too small."

This is really comedy. He also followed the others and laughed.

But Dunn's laugh didn't last long, and soon he followed and frowned.

The draw for the fourth grade team started, and the first letter to be taken out was "D". Which hapless guy will be placed in the same group as Real Madrid, Benfica, and Lille, and become the object of their score?

The second person took a small ball from the box, opened it, took out the folded note, glanced at it, flipped it over to show it to the audience, and at the same time reported the name of the team:

"Nottingham Forest."

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