Real Madrid currently have won 14 CL titles, do you think in the next 50-60 years, any club could have overtaken them in the record or they’d continue to reign?
Their team is currently in transition, but with assembly of young stars like Vini, Rodrygo, Bellingham, Endrick, Camavinga, Tchouameni, Valverde, Militao, Guler and potentially Davies + Mbappe in 2024 may get them more CL wins in this decade alone!
Do you think any team can overtake them in most CLs won by our lifetime or is the gap too big to overcome?
Man citeh is coming for them.
Real Madrid are the perpetual main characters of the CL and they’ll probably add quite a few more to their 14 titles in the decades to come. I guess maybe City could do it but it’s a huge difference in titles and winning the CL is very difficult already.
I can really imagine Benfica getting really big in the future.
Nothing is set in stone. Nottingham won a CL way back, look where they are now. Hamburg won too, look where they are now.
I think, in the long run, those with the best youth center and clever investments can potentially overtake Real Madrid.
But ofcourse Real Madrid will do anything necessary to hold the position.
I am just saying nothing is impossible, especially in football.
If things remain as they are, it will be very hard for a team like that to win the UCL, because richer clubs will poach their best players. For a club like Benfica or Ajax to win the UCL, they will need several potentially world class players to have a breakthrough season simultaneously, and even then it’s going to be very tough.
It’s very unlikely.
The next closest are Milan and the chances of them being in it on a consistent enough basis AND being good enough is a long shot to more than double their current haul.
Liverpool are in a very competitive league where an iffy season can see you out of it, but even if they do maintain the high level they’ve been at for the last 6 years, it’d still be very unlikely they’d catch up before Madrid won another. Hell, even if they’d won the two recent finals they’d played them in, they’d still be 4 behind.
Bayern is the most likely as they have the right mix of monopoly over their league to cherry pick the best of it while still have it be competitive enough to be sharp and be in it consistently. However, 8 titles is… a big, big gap.
All the others aren’t even worth considering.
In reality, they did win 5 of those titles at a time when it wasn’t really seen as a serious competition and that’s what will keep them ahead essentially forever.
Assuming CL concept will last for another 50-60 years, you mean. Cute.