Liverpool and Manchester United Can Reach the Champions League Final Only Because We Aren't There

But rather than saying Newcastle had been incredibly lucky, it was better to say that Lu Yang had fully understood how the American consortium thought.

Between the Premier League title and the Champions League title, hardcore Premier League fans considered the league more important, especially when Liverpool's history was taken into account.

Setting that aside, most Premier League fans considered the latter more important, but the former was by no means lacking.

Even for fans outside the Premier League, if the Champions League carried a weight of eight points, then the Premier League was worth five.

La Liga was worth four.

Serie A was worth three.

The Bundesliga and Ligue 1 were worth two and a half.

But to the American consortium, the Champions League was worth ten points.

The Premier League was worth only one.

Because what the Americans wanted to build was not an English powerhouse at all.

They wanted a European powerhouse.

This was an important step toward forming the European Super League and securing enormous influence within it.

Win a Champions League now, and in the future they might earn an extra two or three hundred million euros every year in the European Super League.

Once a contract was signed, it would last ten or twenty years, amounting to billions upon billions of euros.

It was absolutely not the trifling amount many people saw at present.

So Liverpool could not possibly give up on the Champions League.

They had poured several hundred million into their squad over recent years, and it was definitely not for a Premier League title.

From this perspective, the Americans clearly held an advantage over Russian, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabian, and other consortiums.

When consortiums from those countries wanted to enter European football, their starting point could only be an ordinary