Manchester United or Tottenham will be in the Champions League next season - but UEFA have been told they have to make a decision with 'neither team deserving to qualify'
Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur have been told they shouldn't be in the Champions League and UEFA must make a decision.
The two stuttering English sides will meet in Bilbao later this month after they overcame Athletic Bilbao and Bodo/Glimt in the semi-finals respectively.
However, they both followed that up with a poor display in the Premier League over the weekend - United fell to West Ham while Spurs were bested by Crystal Palace. It leaves them 16th and 17th in the the table.
And Richard Keys has now told UEFA to make a decision regarding next seasons Champions League - with one of the two set to book their spot in Bilbao.
"Spurs 17th. United 16th. They’ve lost 37 league games between them," the disgraced former Sky Sports presenter said on social media after their latest defeats.
"Only the 3 relegated clubs are worse. One or the other is supposed to be playing CL football next season. UEFA have to re-visit that decision now. It shouldn’t be allowed."
Arsene Wenger also recently suggested the current rules should be changed in an appearance on Keys’ beIN Sports programme.
“No – they should qualify automatically for the Europa League again but not necessarily for the Champions League,” said Wenger.
“Especially when in the Premier League, five teams have already qualified for the Champions League. I think this is something that UEFA needs to think about and needs to review.
"On the other hand people will tell you that to keep the Europa League focused, interesting and motivated you need to give them that prize [of qualifying for the Champions League]."
Gary Neville would then agree with Wenger: "I agree a little bit with Arsene Wenger [that Europa League winners shouldn’t earn direct passage to the Champions League] purely because every game we are watching at the moment we are just talking about the money at stake.
"Nobody is talking about winning the Europa League to win a trophy. The Uefa Cup and the Cup Winners’ Cup used to be big trophies that clubs could win and you used to think ‘wow, what an achievement.’
"Everything now is about a £60m game or a £100m game, the FA Cup has become devalued, really great competitions are becoming devalued."