That's ridiculous. There are 32 clubs in group phase and they each get roughly £25 million. But if 5 clubs from the same association make it they're going to withhold one of the shares? How would that work? Nonsense. This whole thing is ridiculous. European Cup winners get to defend their status as the competition's winner, period. Anyone who looked at the actual rules would see they really have no other choice and that including Liverpool will be at the expense of no one. The 4 club limit was a vain attempt to appease the smaller associations in UEFA by saying "We won't let the Big 3 (FAPL, La Liga, Series A) get too powerful.