The idea that it favors the clubs with higher budgets is not borne out by the statistics. The 4th & 5th subs on the going clubs are not so much better than the 4th & 5th subs on lesser clubs THAN the first three subs. Besides the amount of time they play (avg 10-12 minutes) does not give them much time to affect the game.

Big clubs were winning all the time before and they are winning all the time now.

Only on his team. Just like Messi now- the last of his kind but he gets accommodated for because of how great he is. There is no one in serious professional football who tracks so little as Messi does. But because he can produce magic when he gets the ball he is tolerated.

If it is any consolation he ruined Arsenal for 5-7 years.

He is proving it more and more with each game for Arsenal