A crucial meeting for the future of European club football will take place today with UEFA attempting to fend off the threat of a breakaway super league.
Proposals will be made for a new-look Champions League competition from 2024 at the extraordinary meeting involving Premier League clubs and their continental rivals which will see a plan presented to ditch the current group stage.
UEFA is understood to replace it with one league where each team plays 10 matches in a so-called 'Swiss system'.
UEFA could axe the competition's current format and move to a 'Swiss system' of mini-leagues
That increase from six matches to 10 in the autumn would have calendar implications for Europe's domestic leagues, and from an English perspective would most obviously have an impact on the future of the Carabao Cup.