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Do you think any club can overtake Real Madrid's overhaul of record Champions League titles in our lifetimes or will they retain that record? (50-60 years) (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ToastedCupboard@alien.top to c/talk@soccer.forum

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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?

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[–] Zarathos-X4X@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

People really get too stuck by Recency Bias.

Until Messi and Ronaldo came, people thought Pele and Maradona's legacy would be untouched.

They forget Madrid went on a Huge drought years ago.

Look at how one of the best clubs in the world failed to make it out of groups 2 years in a row.

Anything can happen. Don't take events linearly. Such questions are always useless because we can never predict the future.

Madrid have a Huge Gap so yes it's hard but Whats stopping Clubs like Liverpool Milan etc to have some more Glory years and close the gap. The Champions League is the hardest tournament, it's not as easy as media makes it sound. Madrid didn't win it cause of Black Magic Or Main Character Plot armor or any bullshit.

They had to sweat and fight their way to it.

[–] ninjomat@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

During that huge 32 year gap no other club - not Liverpool not Bayern or milan (who already had one before the gap began) could match them to 6 never mind overtake.

Now Madrid’s lead is 7, and that’s just over Milan, Liverpool or Bayern would need 8 more again just to match. If Real Madrid can win 6 titles in 11 years from 55-66 and 8 in 27 years from 95 to 22. Then it doesn’t even matter if they take another 32 year break no other club has been able to win 8 in the 68 years of the competitions existence

[–] nsfishman@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I didn’t realize that they were actually one of organizers of the original tournament and that it was invite only. Apparently the better European teams often declined the invite because it was akin to a preseason tourney with little to no prestige. Certainly puts their first 5 trophies in a different light…

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