Quote Originally Posted by Tactician View Post
Yes, but what I mean it is a bad sign in this game. You may well come out first or even second and have no 'trolling' in the knock-out stages, which means that in that case, you will have a better chance of winning the competition. I would rather choose to face equality quality or higher quality active teams rather than choosing options that might include 'trolling; Because, for me, those teams can still be beaten and knocked-out with proper management and tactics, but in the case of 'trolling' nothing much can be done,

To comment to your concern as such, yes it not appropriate to put 3 or 4 teams having the same seeds in the same group.
3 seasons ago, the same thing happened, with the tournament consisting of 29 league champs and 3 higher levels. I did win that tournament, so hopefully your scenario unfolds again.

The odd thing with this format is, league champs are drawing higher level managers. But non-league champs (mostly 4th place finishers), are being drawn into lower-level ones. A t11 friend (Arpani FC) finished 4th last season, and is in a group with nothing but lower-level league champs.

However, I do understand, they need to put different levels in some CL draws, so the tournament has a 32 team field.

I do apologize if this topic is getting a little off topic and if it belongs elsewhere, I'll ask one of the mods to move it to its correct location.