Editorial Andrei Niculescu: Champions League forbidden to suckers

We are not wanting at the rich table! With an exclamation sign at the end, maybe even two. Remember I believe this opinion, which including Gică Hagi has developed not long ago. Something makes me believe that these rich people would have wanted us to fly thousands of miles and experience pretentious time and strange sensations, but the idea was to want us too.

Or, please, let us do something in this sense, that I wanted to be convinced that I wanted, half the job was done, like that older with Jennifer Lopez, I told you long ago. This thing with the mass of the rich so drops, Because the easier road to it as in this season It's harder to find for our champion.

Dan Petrescu's warnings

About these Pafos (or Paphos, if you want to be the more international text) Dan Petrescu told us since last year. I laughed, perhaps because he caused us to do this with his style of finding “dragon” in any opponent goes out of his way. I go on the idea that he had all the data and he didn't say it only in search of alibi.

That project, that salaries, that players, do not know what. As a coach I do not know if he said, that there was nothing spectacular, he had been kicked out of Ibiza and Zaragoza, although the man, Juan Carlos Mărcedo on his behalf, was for years in the staff of UNAI Emery, in various places, including FC Sevilla (with known European trophies), PSG or Arsenal.

UNAI is a technician recognized as very serious above all, typical until the extreme, and would not take a staff who knows what summer is losing, just because, say, he is very faithful and goes to church weekly. And I go, to avoid other speculation of bad taste.

I have now reviewed PAFOS, and in double with the Red Star, but also with Dinamo Kiev, and the sensation I think was a well trained team, well placed on the field, with sufficiently clear ideas, adapted to the value of the players in the lot. Which, yes, have high salaries, but let's be serious, not even low salaries on these teams who think important. Plus, every time we see some executions of some of them, we inevitably wonder how the hell I find them and why the hell are all kinds of loans!

Pafos qualified for the first time in the Champions League // Photo: Imago Images

Kairat and coincidences

No one told us about Kairat Almaty. I discovered them after eliminating Slovan Bratislava, who played in the Champions League last year. I then searched for the map, on which occasion I realized that they were two steps away from China, that they are closer to Tokyo than London and that the Taliban from Afghanistan are not so far, we asked, in fact, what Kazakhstan is looking for in European competitions. The answer, for the curious, lies in the geographical characteristics of their territory, with 10 percent in Europe and the rest in Asia.

In similar situations are Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, who obviously chose our continent for football, would be Israel, where there is another story.

Kazakhstan also had a team in the Champions League, on Astana, except that from there to Almaty there are another 1200 kilometers. Which is added to the few thousands already existing, so that some borders of Europe, at least two from the first ballot box and two other from the second, will have to fly good hours to play football, then return, because in their championships nobody postponed their matches. During which time they will think and calculate that Miami, New York or Dubai would be much easier to reach. The difference in time zone no longer counts, it comes as a bonus.

Their employer, I found here in the GSP the story told by a Romanian who played there, was a little arrested for all kinds of fraud. Ha, what a coincidence! One of the girls entered, through Mătiţiș, into the family of the president of the country, but the opinions about him are generally positive, because he is involved in all kinds of social activities. It has something function including on UEFA, and in Kairat provides a large budget.

If you make the team or changes, we don't know. We know, however, that he named a Russian coach, nothing surprising, however, but that he put a German, and a Brazilian chief at the academy, but also that he signed a partnership with Sporting Lisbon.

We have no information that Kairat players were not allowed to enter the United Kingdom on the grounds that they had no visas, which means that before they were angry with proletarian (or sovereign) anger the attitude of the Scots (which, between us, it was right, because the ones in question were not kept at the airport, but they were not kept at the airport. And in Kairat there are high salaries, but are they small at FCSB?

As for football, this one looked good enough. Celtic that Celtic showed us thoroughly what cheese makes this champion of Scotland. That is, he doesn't. And Kairat seemed like a well -trained team, well placed on the field, with clear ideas, in accordance with their possibilities, that no one expects any “Kaiaratikitaka”. He has already given a player at Chelsea, it is assumed that he will give others, maybe the goalkeeper, because they have 8 matches from September and will notice everyone. How to play there in November, December or January, we will see.

The circle closed from the polar circle

Bodo Glimt did not tell us Dan Petrescu nothing. He had told us about Hacken, which is all over there, what Sweden is, what Norway is to me. But he told us something Mourinho, while in Rome, that this Bodo story is not so new, the “special” took 6 from them. There things are completely different from the two examples above, possibly Qarabaq if they qualify.

There is a clear project, a success story of the connection between sports and community. A closed circle, at the Polar Circle. And an example of how to take advantage of a great asset you have, in this case the synthetic ground and climatic conditions. Bodo Glimt would not just unknown players, although 95 percent are Norwegians, and Jens Peter Hauge's name was not long ago in Milan accompanied by many beautiful adjectives. He has the same coach from 2018, so here's nothing.

Just as, in order to end, not even our absence from the “rich” table “is not accidental. I do not start here to review the reasons, you all know them. The Europa League remains for us the maximum threshold we can hope for now, and Conference League remains the competition we feel best.

When will we be able to take a step forward? Here's a question that I honestly didn't answer. And if I look around, no expectations.

The Champions League forbidden to the suckers, I said in the title. Instead of suckers maybe another word would go, don't you think?