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Maybe Germany has the luxury to do that but if a relatively bigger team finds themselves in the same situation as Holland did the last Euro qualifiers and has a second lifeline to Euro 2020 via this tournament, you don’t think they’re going to to take it seriously at that point?
For now, there are more than one season planned. If it’s not given some importance at this point, I think that when we see bigger nations and maybe even a giant get relegated into the B league, it won’t get good press in that nation and could be looked at as an embarrassment.
Oh absolutely, that's why I think we'll see such wonky results as most of the "biggest" teams will treat these matches like friendlies, while 1 or 2 teams who get desperate, turn to this to get them into the Euros.
And I do think there might some embarrassment to being "relegated" in this...if the main qualifying campaign isn't going well or the team is under siege from the local press...but there won't be much drive to actually win the league unless your main qualifying campaign has gone tits up.