re: Apparently PSG and Juventus have agreed to a 58 million transfer for Pogba

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But if Germany can outperform England over the course of a few years and earn an extra obviously my opinion would change over that time because it would be backed by results.

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First off, Germany can't "earn an extra spot." They have four, just like England and Spain. But Germany is close to passing England for the second place.

Here are the UEFA coefficients: England is going down, while Germany is going up... (the second to last number is for this current season). Germany has outperformed England in three of the five seasons. LINK

2 England 18.357 15.250 16.428 16.785 13.571 80.391
3 Germany 15.666 15.250 17.928 14.714 15.571 79.129

(Now, England isn't in much danger of falling out of the 4-spot group at the moment. Italy is still a decent bit behind.)

We can cherrypick numbers from any given time span, but these are the five seasons UEFA uses to pick Champions League spots. What they're saying is correct in that, if recent trends continue, Germany is about to pass England. But Italy or France would have to take England's fourth UCL spot.