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Barozi on 30 August 2014
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Ka-pi96 said:
Barozi said:

Without the money from oligarchs and sheiks those teams wouldn't even dream of playing in the Champions League.
It's pretty obvious that not every single one of these teams can win the CL every year, but they are already winning their own leagues and domestic cups and its only a matter of time until they win the CL (like Chelsea).

That isn't really true. Both PSG and Monaco have been in the Champions League plenty of times before and the rich Russian teams (except the short lived Anzhi) have long been Champions League regulars from way before they started spending big.

When I talk about teams, I mean the players playing at said club and not the 100 year club history.

Monaco hasn't been in the CL for 9 years in a row and not even in any European Cup tournament for the last 8 years.
http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/club=50023/profile/index.html

PSG hasn't been in the CL for 7 years, before the big money arrived.
http://www.uefa.com/teamsandplayers/teams/club=52747/profile/index.html


So show me a player who played in one of these clubs since at least 8 years and I take back what I said.

About Russia, Zenit was bought by Gazprom in 2005 and look how they did afterwards:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Teilnehmer_an_der_UEFA_Champions_League#Russland