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

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

Not entirely sure what you mean. Do you mean they have had to pretty much get a whole new team in order to get into the Champions League? If so, then fair enough. Although even then players do move around a lot now and there are quite a few good teams that have had long spells without European football so the same may well be true for some other clubs that aren't so rich.

Fair point on Zenit, although the Moscow clubs have always been big and in or around Champions League places for quite a while. Yeah they weren't really competitive back then, but even now none of them are really that competitive, which is quite surprising but oh well.

Exactly and if it wasn't for the money, that spell would have lasted much much longer.
Those teams did horribly in quite a few seasons over the past 10 years with PSG nearly getting relegated twice and Monaco actually playing in Ligue 2 for two seasons.