• XuX24@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • ButWhichPandaAreYou@alien.topB
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      10 months ago

      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.

      • nevergonnasweepalone@alien.topB
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        10 months ago

        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.