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.
Er, all of that’s true of the EPL?
The EPL has seen only 2 different teams other than the big 6 qualify for the UCL in more than a decade. Its parity is also very little, frankly.
Your post from ‘almost all the teams…’ onwards, applies to the EPL
Not really, or at least not in my opinion. You see, in the brasileirao you will find several teams fighting closely for the first places with small differences of points. It may also happen in the following years that these same teams find themselves fighting not only to not be left out of international competitions, but also to avoid losing the category.
For example, Gremio, winner of the Copa Libertadores in 2017 and in a good position in the local league, loses the category in 2021. This year the brasileirao has Gremio playing again in the first division and fighting for the top positions.
Another example would be Inter, who finished in second place last year and this year finds them at only three points above the team closest to relegation.
Even though the Premier League is the best European league, I honestly don’t find it very attractive to follow, and less if compared to a league as dynamic as the Brazilian one… But this is just my way of seeing it.