Harry Balls
08-27-2013, 11:11 PM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23680545
Loved this bit, it vindicates our attractiveness to players and agents, who almost certainly factor this in:
The Gunners, who have had an average ranking of five in the same period, still only topped their group twice, but qualified for the last 16 on each occasion, for which they received five bonus coefficient points to go with the ones they picked up for their results.
So they got an easier group because of their seeding, and consequently qualified from it to get bonus points that gave them an extremely good chance of the same thing happening again the following season. Which it did.
Loved this bit, it vindicates our attractiveness to players and agents, who almost certainly factor this in:
The Gunners, who have had an average ranking of five in the same period, still only topped their group twice, but qualified for the last 16 on each occasion, for which they received five bonus coefficient points to go with the ones they picked up for their results.
So they got an easier group because of their seeding, and consequently qualified from it to get bonus points that gave them an extremely good chance of the same thing happening again the following season. Which it did.