The three major European cups in the traditional sense have long since become a historical term. First of all, the European Cup Winners' Cup was directly canceled, and secondly, the League Cup of that year, after being restructured into the Europa League, also greatly declined. Therefore, when it comes to the three major European cups of the year, it is really a bit nostalgic.
Moreover, if you can complete the three major European cup majors, it is definitely a supreme honor, and for a club, it is something that can definitely go down in history. In fact, there are only six teams in European football that can really do this. Even Real Madrid, the champions of the Champions League, did not do it, they lacked the Cup Winners' Cup. The 6 teams are Juventus, Ajax, Bayern, Chelsea, Manchester United, Barcelona. And the top giants we are familiar with, such as AC Milan, Inter Milan, and Liverpool, like Real Madrid, lack one of them.
In fact, in European football now, there are also three major European cups, but they are usually not called that. Although the Cup Winners' Cup has long been cancelled, in recent years, UEFA has created a UEFA Europa Conference League to take care of the second-tier teams in the top leagues, as well as the leading teams in the minor leagues that cannot play in the Champions League and Europa League. Therefore, the three major European cups are the Champions League, the Europa League, and the Europa League.
But will there still be teams that will win the new three major European Cups and complete the Grand Slam? On the one hand, it is basically impossible to complete the Grand Slam. On the other hand, if there is a team that has completed a Grand Slam, then it can only be said that the team is sick, either physically or mentally.
First of all, let's look at the characteristics of the traditional three cups. Although there are indeed differences in the level of the Champions League, the Europa League, and the Cup Winners' Cup, whether it is the specifications or the strength of the participating teams, these three cups are basically equal, and there is no qualitative gap. The Champions League is the stage for the major league titles, the Cup Winners' Cup is the stage for cup winners, and the League Cup is the stage for the competition of strong teams in Europe that have not won the title. At that time, there was a saying that the competition in the UEFA Cup was more fierce than the Champions League, but it was not unreasonable. After all, you can only see the champions in the Champions League, and there are also some minor league titles, while in the UEFA Cup, you can see more top teams.
Therefore, at that time, the completion of the three major cups meant that they had reached the top of the three top competitions in Europe.
But today's three major European cups, strictly speaking, can no longer be called three major cups, because there is a significant gap between the three competitions in terms of level. The Champions League is definitely the highest, the Europa League is obviously shorter, as for the Europa League, you tell me, how far does a team like Real Madrid have to fall to play in the Europa League? They can't even accept the Europa League, right?
Therefore, a top giant, if at some point in time actually completed the grand slam of the new three cups, then they are really sick. On the one hand, there is a physical illness, and if a team is compared to a person, then this person will only fall into the Europa League when he is very weak, so as to win the championship. On the other hand, it is a brain disease, if you deliberately go to the Europa Conference League just to collect trophies, it is simply a brain water, and this situation is basically impossible to happen.
In fact, today's Champions League is equivalent to grabbing all the shares of the previous three cups to its own territory, which has also caused the level of the Europa League to plummet. As for the UEFA Europa League, because the grade is too low, it basically has little intersection with the Champions League.