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It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that the work Chelsea are conducting to bolster their set-up resulted in them exploring the possibility of hiring the RB Leipzig chief executive Oliver Mintzlaff.
But with two sides in contact over the summer it was decided to park the matter until the market shut. One option favoured by some of the most powerful club executives in European football involves taking Champions League games outside of the continent to make meaningful games more accessible to the clubs’ global fanbases.
Another option to take outside of Europe may be the Super Cup — the meeting between the previous season’s Champions League andwinners. UEFA is already considering the introduction of a four-team mini-tournament at the start of each season, which would include the previous season’s Champions League winners and three other leading teams in what would be referred to as the “Opening Tournament”.
In March, Al-Khelaifi said they had seen an “amazing 39 per cent increase in the forecasted commercial value of the men’s UEFA club competitions for the post-2024 cycle”. The first three markets that have gone to tender have produced significant revenue growth — an increase of 20 per cent in the UK, 25 per cent in France and 150 per cent in the US .The case for taking matches abroad was underlined when the ECA last week released research on the changing nature of football fandom.
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