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.
True, but I feel like there is some sense of delusion here, with all due respect. I mean, Google and Apple started out in garages too, and these companies aren’t seen as San Francisco based working class places of pride. Just because Liverpool FC was started by local people wanting to play football, doesn’t mean it wasn’t bought out by American billionaires and employ players who play there mainly for the money and success (because if only history was the factor, then world class players would join Football Club of Edinburgh or something). I mean, I still feel like the lack of parity is a problem. Maybe it can not be eliminated, but there should be a solution of some magnitude. But I don’t know a lot honestly, so I’m probably missing something.