- Aug 20, 2013
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I actually quite like it, I think the Portuguese winner getting a top-seed spot when their league is so uncompetitive is really stretching it a bit. And it meant that if the CL winner also won their league the top side from Ukraine, otherwise known as Shakhtar Donetsk, got into Pot 1 which was just bizarre. If they're going to do it this way rather than just on coefficients, I'd only have it as the Top 5 league winners - the leagues you either have to be an elite club yourself or finish above one of them to win. Then fill it up with the last CL and EL winner, and then the best coefficient teams. Right now it makes a mockery of the seeding system when one Pot 3 side can get FC Basel and Lokomotiv Moscow while another gets Real Madrid and Bayern Munich.Cannot agree with that ruling fair enough getting into the league stage but straight in as top seed doesn’t seem right. Kick up the backside for Portugal. We might have heard about it if it affected one of ours