The Premier League has been the dominant league financially for the last 10 years. In that time there have been 3 Premier League winners of the Champions League (City, Liverpool, Chelsea). 2 La Liga teams have won it 6 times between them (Barca once, Real Madrid 5 times), and Bayern Munich have won it twice.
In that time, there have been two English winners of the Europa League (Man Utd and Chelsea twice), three seperate winners from La Liga who have won it 7 times between them (Sevilla 5 times, Atlético Madrid and Villereal once each), and Eintracht Frankfurt won it once.
In the two Europa Conference League Finals that have taken place, one was won by Roma, and the other by West Ham.
The problem is not the dominance of the Premier League. It is the dominance of the 4 biggest leagues in Europe (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, and Serie A) over everyone else. The last winner of any European trophy from outside of these leagues was Porto winning the Europa League in 2010/11. Porto were also the last winners of the Champions League from outside of the Big 4 Leagues, and that was when Jose Mourinho was in charge of them in 2003/04.
The Super League does nothing to solve these problems - unless you count potentially destroying European competition as solving the problem. It doesn’t solve the problems of the dominance of Champions League qualifying in the various domestic leagues either. It only makes clubs who are already insanely rich even richer, and diminishes competition even further.
And this is the problem club owners are really talking about - they aren’t getting all of the money. And when they have it all, their problem is that they still want more. They don’t care about competition or the spirit of the game. If they did, they would introduce radical reforms to the game like a drafting system similar to that in many American sports, or truly levelling up prize money within competitions.
But no, that means them getting a few million less, and not hoarding all the gold like a dragon under the mountain.
The Premier League has been the dominant league financially for the last 10 years. In that time there have been 3 Premier League winners of the Champions League (City, Liverpool, Chelsea). 2 La Liga teams have won it 6 times between them (Barca once, Real Madrid 5 times), and Bayern Munich have won it twice.
In that time, there have been two English winners of the Europa League (Man Utd and Chelsea twice), three seperate winners from La Liga who have won it 7 times between them (Sevilla 5 times, Atlético Madrid and Villereal once each), and Eintracht Frankfurt won it once.
In the two Europa Conference League Finals that have taken place, one was won by Roma, and the other by West Ham.
The problem is not the dominance of the Premier League. It is the dominance of the 4 biggest leagues in Europe (Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, and Serie A) over everyone else. The last winner of any European trophy from outside of these leagues was Porto winning the Europa League in 2010/11. Porto were also the last winners of the Champions League from outside of the Big 4 Leagues, and that was when Jose Mourinho was in charge of them in 2003/04.
The Super League does nothing to solve these problems - unless you count potentially destroying European competition as solving the problem. It doesn’t solve the problems of the dominance of Champions League qualifying in the various domestic leagues either. It only makes clubs who are already insanely rich even richer, and diminishes competition even further.
And this is the problem club owners are really talking about - they aren’t getting all of the money. And when they have it all, their problem is that they still want more. They don’t care about competition or the spirit of the game. If they did, they would introduce radical reforms to the game like a drafting system similar to that in many American sports, or truly levelling up prize money within competitions.
But no, that means them getting a few million less, and not hoarding all the gold like a dragon under the mountain.