The bizarre machinations of football administrators

With the suggestion being floated that the 4th place in the Premier League (PL), which currently gets your team in the Champions League (CL) qualifying round the follwing season, be thrown open to a play off to teams down to 7th place, would Liverpool fans see this as a convenient way to arrest their team's current slide into mid-table mediocrity?
My conspiracy radar see this as an attempt by the PL to ensure that the current "Sky 4" can maintain their stranglehold on football's most lucrative competition, and thus ensure the vast numbers of overseas supporters, and one uses the term loosely, of these clubs, particularly in Asia, continue to spend their TV buck thus keeping the gravy train a-rollin' along.
How so you may ask? Well, this play off for the 4th CL spot could be played with two-legged games, with the 4th team (say Man City) playing the 7th team (say Everton) and the 5th v 6th (Liverpool & Spurs). Now, of those teams, who has by far the most experience at home and away ties? Yup, that's right, good old Liverpool with their vast hordes of Far Eastern support. It seems to me that in the event of one of the "Sky 4" finishing outside the top 4 they get another bite at a cherry in which they have the vastly superior experience.
In any event do we really need more games crammed in to an already bursting calendar? Not to mention what happens when there is a World Cup or European Championship being contested in the summer. The national managers will be even more at loggerheads with the club bosses.
All in all a daft idea, no doubt dreamt up to a) give a failing big 4 side another chance, and b) to milk even more dosh from the cracked udders of the cash cow!