The UEFA regs state:
Quote:
Article 4
Duties of the clubs
4.01 On entering the competition, participating clubs agree:
a) to pay an entry fee of €200, to be debited directly by the UEFA
administration from the account of the association concerned;
b) to comply with the Laws of the Game issued by the IFAB;
c) to respect the principles of fair play as defined in the UEFA Statutes;
d) to play in the competition until their elimination and to field their strongest
team throughout the competition;
UEFA say they will take no action:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/footba ... adrid.htmlHowever both Wimbledon (as was) and Tottenham were fined in 1996 for fielding sub-optimal teams in the much less prestigious Intertoto Cup, so surely Liverpool, specifically Rodgers, have to play their star names from now on?