Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis has called for the Champions League and Europa League to be abolished and replaced with a new 80-team competition in order to revive"boring" European football.
Napoli qualified for the Champions League by sealing second place in Serie A for the second consecutive season on Monday, after a last-gasp 2-1 win over Cagliari. But film producer De Laurentiis, who bankrolls Napoli, believes Uefa's two European club competitions are outdated.De Laurentiis told Italian daily Corriere della Sera:"The Champions League is now for a select few, while the Europa League has become a sort of consolation prize. It's all very outdated. We are often confronted with the same sparring partners."
De Laurentiis proposed a single tournament with"the top seven teams from the Italian, French, English, German and Spanish leagues and the first four of the Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, Swedish and all the other leagues".
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