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.

  • IntellegentIdiot@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I understand where your coming from but you’re argument seems very narrow, at least when it comes to the PL. Back in the 90’s Tottenham usually finished 10th or lower and at the start of the century we had the Sky 4, 4 clubs that always finished in the top 4 and where treated like the only 4 that mattered. While it’s taken many years of careful management Tottenham are now part of that big six, and they’ve sold many of their best players over the years and still continued to improve. So it’s absolutely possible for teams to grow over time. The biggest problem are the state backed clubs who come in and give the clubs unlimited funds to compete, which of course is completely unfair. While the authorities have moved far too slowly and have damaged the game over the last 20 years there have been some improvements and supposedly now there is protection in place.