In Nyon, Switzerland, Ferguson saw many old faces again.

It's just that many of these old faces have changed to new owners...... Over the years, no manager of a Champions League team has stayed longer than him, and the second longest should be Arsene Wenger.

"Hey, Carllo."

"Hey, sir."

Ferguson and Ancelotti greeted each other familiarly, Ancelotti was still so polite, and Ferguson was still so breezy and calm.

The two of them always meet here every season.

"Last season, it's a pity." Ferguson wanted to console Carlo Ancelotti, after all, Milan lost the title last season and ended in the last four last season.

"Well, it's a pity for Manchester United." Ancelotti smiled, Manchester United and Milan are not half a pound or two, the lord is really forgetful.

"Ah, haha, but it's okay, expectedly, within an acceptable range, this season, let's meet by chance?" Alex Ferguson was the first to find a place to sit down, with Carlo Ancelotti also sitting next to him.

"A chance encounter? When do you want it to be? Ancelotti raised his eyebrows, and met Manchester United by chance, which is not an optimistic event, or not, he smiled, "Final?" ”

"Aha, yes, I hope so."

Both managers have the heart of a champion, and if they want to meet, the final is indeed the perfect encounter......

It's just that you have to have the ability to play until that time, without this ability, you can only sit in front of the TV and watch the Champions League final, how many ambitious giants want to kill to the end every year, but can get to this point, in the end, there are only two teams?

"It's a shame that there is no Juventus this year."

"Well, we can't stop it, it's just something that happens objectively." Ancelotti was stunned for a moment.

The reason why Juventus did not come was because Juventus was relegated, because of the phonegate incident, Juventus was directly ordered to enter Serie B, and started from minus nine points.

In two years' time, Juventus will have no hope of making it to the Champions League.

"With Juventus' management model, in two years' time, they will definitely be back in the Champions League." Ferguson said in the affirmative.

"I also agree with this, the essence of this club is here, once they come back, they may go to the top three in the league, but it is impossible to recover all at once......

The age difference between the two men is almost twenty years, but this does not prevent them from becoming old friends.

And then these two people also got to Shevchenko.

"I feel like it was a mistake to let Shevchenko go, both for Milan and for Shevchenko personally. I don't think he's going to be comfortable in the Premier League. ”

'It was his personal choice and he was respected by the whole group at Milan. But, sir, do you want to say that he should go to Manchester United? ”

"Haha, I already have Dong, I don't need Shevchenko, I just think Shevchenko should stay in Milan, leaving is a huge adventure, 30 years old, the Premier League is not easy to mix."

“……”

"Dong should also be very suitable for Milan, why not sell it to Real Madrid?"

"Unless I'm crazy......"

"Alright, the damn lottery is about to begin!"

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There is no big difference between the teams in the top 32 of this year's Champions League and previous years, at most, it will be those teams from weak European football countries that will have new faces.

In the early morning of August 24, Beijing time, the Champions Cup ended the second leg of the third round of the qualifying round, and the top 32 in the group stage have all surfaced. With Liverpool and Arsenal both promoted, while La Liga and Serie A lost Osasuna and Chievo respectively, the Premier League, which has four spots, has become the league with the most participating teams, while Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1, Bundesliga and Portuguese Super League have three teams each. The specific distribution of the top 32 leagues is as follows:

Premier League: Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal.

Serie A: AC Milan, Inter Milan, Roma

La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia.

Ligue 1: Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille.

Bundesliga: Bayern, Bremen, Hamburg.

Portuguese Super League: Porto, Sporting Lisbon, Benfica.

Greece: Olympiacos, AEK Athens

Russian Premier League: CSKA Moscow, Spartak Moscow

Ukraine: Kyiv Dynamo, Shakhtar Donetsk.

Eredivisie: PSV Eindhoven.

Belgium: Anderlecht

Su Chao: Celtic

Turkey: Galatasaray

Bulgaria: Sofia Levsky

Denmark: Copenhagen

Romania: Bucharest Star

The draw includes 16 teams that went straight to the group stage, including defending champions Barcelona, and 16 teams that qualified through qualifying.

According to UEFA's club points system, the points of the last three years are used as Champions League points, and Barcelona and the top 7 teams are seeded (Pot 1), and the other teams are also divided into Pot 3 according to the points. One team from each bracket will be drawn to form a group of eight in total, provided that the teams in the same league are not in a different group.

The teams in the first pot are: Barcelona, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Liverpool, Arsenal, Lyon, Valencia.

Tier 2: Manchester United, Porto, PSV Eindhoven, Bayern, Chelsea, Roma, Celtic, Lille.

Tier 3: Sporting Lisbon, Benfica, Bordeaux, Bucharest Star, Bremen, Olympiacos, CSKA Moscow, Athens.

Fourth tier: Anderlecht, Dynamo Kyiv, Levsky Sofia, Shakhtar Donetsk, Galatasaray, Hamburg, Spartak Moscow, Copenhagen.

If the ranking had been based on last year's points rules, Manchester United would have been seeded, but UEFA suddenly changed the rules and United unfortunately fell into the second tier of teams, which means that Manchester United's signing will not go smoothly.

Ferguson didn't care too much, but he didn't expect that after arranging the teams in the fourth and third pots, when the second pot was drawn, Manchester United's name would be the first to be drawn.

In the queue of Barcelona, Bremen and Sofia Levski in Group A, when Manchester United's name was filled, the draw scene and the whole England were instantly boiling.

"Damn, Barcelona!"

"It's really a narrow road, and the opportunity for revenge has come!"

At that moment, all Manchester United fans thought of revenge, and Barcelona stepped on Manchester United's shoulders to reach the Champions League final last year, and Manchester United fans hated it......

Unexpectedly, this season, these two teams actually met in the group stage.

"Ah, finally avoided the damn Barcelona, it's not Chelsea anymore, it's Manchester United......"

Chelsea fans feel that Lady Luck has finally favored Chelsea......