Bayern winning 10. The premier league having a “big six” and only 2 different teams qualifying for UCL in years (Leicester and Newcastle). La Liga being a 2 horse race with occasional atletico. Even serie A has 5-6 good teams and every one doesn’t compete. Ligue 1 is only PSG. How do fans just accept that domestic leagues have no parity? There is no feasible way anyone can ever expect Brighton to win the PL when if they have one good year, their best players are bought. Big clubs are insanely well established and small teams can’t complete without getting bought out. It seems so unfair to me. Like, I feel like if the European scene was more fair with better parity, Dortmund should’ve been able to keep Haaland and Bellingham as their 2 starlets. The best example of this is Lewandowksi at Dortmund. He wins the league with Dortmund twice, loses to Bayern in the UCL final, and then just joins the best team. That was the best move for his career. It feels like the scene is just scene so a team like Dortmund can never compete with Bayern. Or how after Real beat Atletico in 2014, Atletico’s keeper joined Real 4 years later, and now Real remains the super team with Atletico just trying to qualify for UCL knockouts.
Its a reflection of the cultures of the different countries. America has more of a sense of “equality and opportunity for all” which is why you have salary caps, and every teams fanbase believes that they will have “that year” where they can win it all. Its not 100% accurate but in American sport you actually have a semblance of parity, unlike in European Soccer.
The answers youve got in this thread answer your question in the sense that it seems like European soccer fans care more about tradition and the “holiness of football” mentality than actually enjoying watching your club do well and have winning success. Its just a completely different mentality, and neither are bad, just different.
Me personally, as an American, I dont understand how so many people are ok with the absolute lack of parity, and the permanent oligarchy of strong clubs (the reason why it is basically impossible for a smaller club to win big trophies or hold on to their homegrown players even if they have a slight taste of winning) but thats because my upbringing is different.
European Soccer has much more tradition than American corporate sports, but maybe that is a sacrifice for the parity and equality that American sports has?
Also your last point makes perfect sense, and it’s always funny seeing people hate on City and Chelsea and Newcastle for trying to build a team using the only possible way to do it in modern football.