The revamped Champions League is back - but are we getting tired of it all?

UEFA's revamping of its flagship club competition got off to a rather tepid start

Virgil van Dijk puts Liverpool ahead at AC Milan (GETTY IMAGES)

The cream of European club football came together this week as the revamped UEFA Champions League got its long-awaited debut.

In the biggest overhaul of the competition since it was rebranded from its previous moniker of the European Cup back in 1992, with the group stages replaced by one big 36-team league, in an expanded format, where each team plays eight games, with seedings deciding the course for each club en route to the knockout stages.

More games means more money, for both the clubs and UEFA. It’s revamp under what was known as the ‘Swiss model’ was done to try and placate some of the issues that the biggest clubs had with the competition, issues that had rankled to the point of a dozen of them trying, and failing, to launch the European Super League back in early 2021.

But how did the first match week go? Was it everything UEFA and the clubs hoped for, or are we now heading down the path of there being so much football that it is actually to the detriment of our enjoyment of it. Maybe more is less?

Well, this week’s Bottom Line takes a look at the week that was and whether or not the pursuit of ‘more, more, more’ is actually what the fans want.