Leeds United CEO Angus Kinnear has hit out at UEFA's plans to revamp the Champions League.
UEFA have proposed a 36-team Champions League under a new 'Swiss format', which would scrap a traditional group stage in favour of an overall league table with clubs facing seeded fixtures.
Kinnear says this expansion would water down the earning potential of the Premier League and also argued that most clubs would be disadvantaged by controversial proposals to allow sides to qualify for the competition on past performances.
Writing in his programme notes for the Whites' draw with Chelsea on Saturday, Kinnear branded the plans deeply troubling.
He said: "However, UEFA's plans to expand the competition with the doubling of matches under the enticingly branded 'Swiss format' is deeply concerning on a number of levels.
"Primarily, I have serious doubts over whether the increase in games is actually what supporters want.
"I find it hard to believe that Spurs fans are clamouring for an away tie at Lokomotiv Plovdiv to be an annual fixture.
"Furthermore the expansion will undoubtedly cannibalise the value that we can generate from our domestic competition that the rest of Europe eye so enviously but the element that the supporters of the majority of Premier League clubs should be most outraged by is the principle that qualification for Europe will no longer be only based on in-season merit but on a co-efficient of clubs' historic performance in Europe.
"This is shamelessly engineered to perpetuate the inclusion of clubs who have long-term European success and whom UEFA deem will have greater commercial value at the expense of emerging clubs."
