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.
Yes, I do mind. I watch football, American football, baseball and basketball and I think there is something broken about football leagues & tournaments that’s hard to ignore. I don’t think the loyal-fan-for-good-or-for-worse argument that’s supposed to make up for lack of excitement in football is valid: I am a Denver Broncos and Nuggets fan, there were plenty of bad times for both teams, you need that there as well. But it’s still nice to be able to realistically hope for a change of the situation. To abandon that hope and become ritualistic is a 19th century European survival strategy - the people who did not adopt it had a high probability to emigrate to the USA. So I guess we’re much more inclined to suffer.