I checked the hardcover album edition yesterday.
It is a worthy anniversary edition , but it could have been even better, bigger , greater..
The cover design is great.They used old panini album covers to fill in the number 40.
I like the amount of players per team represented and I really like the 4 additional places for update stickers.
I don't like the look of the badges.They look like carved out of a metal plate, but this is not warcraft (!)
There are no team photo stickers.
I like the feature of a club legend and the bio, but it should have been a sticker to paste instead of a printed sticker.
And here comes my main point of criticism:
Panini made a nice intro with the most important clubs of the past 40 years without using stickers.
There is no extra section with legends , goal scorers, champions etc..
In the end this leaves an unsatisfying impression.