- While Man City has its “things” , they manage to build a dynasty that dominates the league and clutch it out on important games.
- You know that Manchester United is the team that have the most spendings in the last years? Its also the team with the biggest wages , and the team that have to paid so many bonuses because of all the firings they have done in the last years.
- The main problem for me in the Premier League are the “Big 6” , they are the ones constantly on the run and even if Tottenham will probably never win it , they at least can give a good fight and get to 2nd place.
- Add to that some teams that “can make a surprise run” like New Castle with the money injection they are having right now and the correct way on managing the team
- Only Leicester broke the Premier League , a team that was supposed to get relegated , wins the Premier League against all odds and after they won it , the next season a lot of their key players left the club.
Yeah it’s true. The opportunity for another Leicester has all but evaporated, if Barca/Real miss out in La Liga it’s because they fucked up and not because Atletico did well.
Ajax or Porto wining Champions League is also a distant memory of a time that used to be.
Us sports also has issues. No relegation and the incentive to sometimes loose games in order to get a better draft pick. Premier League is exciting from day 1-20 because even if the champions are crowned in may, the European spots and relegation won’t have been sorted.
I will admit that it does get boring seeing the same four or so teams win the League cups every year.
US Sport really seems to get this right. Aren’t there like new champions every year? Whereas the PL is a Man City procession each season, same in France and Germany and only about 4 teams can win the CL.
when you don’t have to worry about losing you spot in the league its easy to agree to salary caps and revenue splits
Yeah the MLB (major league baseball) hasn’t had a repeat winner since the year 2000. The NFL has had a huge variety in its winning teams in the last 12 years. This is what I love about American sports as an American, and I think the playoff system great.
It does get it right but it’s missing one or two big ingredients, relegation and promotion.
The aim is for parity but in reality there’s still a difference between the rich and the poor because of local TV deals and free agency. The big market teams can afford to go after and pay big contracts for the best players. They employ the best scouts. Is it perfect correlation? No, but it is easier for a big team to rebuild quicker than a small market team. The New York Yankees had a bad season this year. But they can go and sign a couple of big band free agents this winter to supplement their squad. Cleveland on the other hand isn’t an attractive destination for a star player, they’re mostly always selling and drafting and picking up the lower end of the talent in free agency.
But that big thing is no relegation.
Who gives a shit about 3 new Washington Generals every year. They still have absolutely no shot of being the Globetrotters.
Apparently they once did though
You can’t take US sports as a base for European football. First in the US every sport rely on Drafts as a feeder system of talent into the league coming mainly from the NCAA. The MLS is a bit different that it has both but the limit is the payment but the whole Messi situation is good fronthe marketability for the league but not good for the competition. He is way better than any player in that league and he’ll get help and no other team is going to match that level of player. It creates an unfair environment that will take Miami as a bottom feeder to a top team in no time.
The other issue is European competitions, if the PL does it and the others don’t then it means they’ll be in a disadvantage. So the European competition will become one sided with teams not being able to compete. The PL for what it is is really fair in comparison to other leagues, in Spain there are basically only 3 teams that are able to spend to compete at the top flight the rest just survive. Meanwhile in England you can have teams that Nottingham forest spending when they got promoted to try and compete with the top dogs.
The PL isn’t fair in the slightest. Man City win it literally every year, and will carry on doing so until Newcastle outspend them, and then Newcastle will win it every year until someone with more money and similarly dubious ethics comes along. It’s a joke competition.
Man City are currently top by 1 point.
They won the league last season by 5 points, meaning that if arsenal hadn’t lost both games to city they may have won the league.
They won the 21/22 season by 1 point.
They walked the league in 20/21.
They were left in the dust in 19/20.
They won in 18/19 by 1 point.
They walked the league in 17/18.
They finished 3rd in 16/17.
In the last 7 seasons they’ve only comfortably won the league twice, all while having apparently the best manager in the history of the game and while having unlimited financial resources and breaching FFP.
If they’re punished appropriately for breaching FFP they should have 2 league titles take away from them, meaning they’ll have won the league once comfortably and twice by small margins.
And if you’re complaints about city having a monopoly on league titles you must not have been watching football for long. Man utd won 13 league titles in 20 years in the 90s and 2000s. Liverpool won 11 of the previous 20.
TLDR: Man City to win Premiership in 23/24
US leagues goes in cycles, that’s why there’s always new winners.
Yes and no.
The closed league isn’t great there isn’t a lot of jeopardy in the relegation battle that isn’t there.
Regular season where you don’t win if you win it also isn’t for me.
The entire draft system and lack of youth commitment from teams…. Well your development can be rather disturbing in both systems.
Using Man City as the article image when the article itself says Man United have by far the highest wage bill.
news, news!!! World is not a fair place!
Im shocked
Oh yeh, the largest sport in the world surely got it wrong, they should copy us who have struggled to export our sports to any other nations…
That aside, we should stop pretending football should have some aim to be like the NFL, that only leads to the super league and moving franchises and all that awful shit.
So you settle for a sport structure only 2-3 teams can win? That’s stupid.
It’s not just about winning, football is deeper than that for most people, the clubs have deep links to their communities, hundreds of thousands of people support their local clubs in the lower leagues, with promotion and relegation key to this. You need to understand that this is a massive cultural difference that you in the kindest possible way probably wouldn’t understand, football isn’t just entertainment like going to the cinema, it runs a whole lot deeper and means a whole lot more to people in the UK