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.
In England at least, you’re not looking long term enough.
The “top” clubs do change over time. It just happens on longer time frames then you’re talking about and will change again in the future. It usually takes decades but it can happen in shorter time frames.
Newcastle were a top, top club for a while in the 90s, then they were so shit they got relegated, now they’re a top side again. Spurs were mid-bottom half in the 90s. Blackburn Rovers were Champions in the 90s before it all fell apart. Forest were European powerhouses in the 70s. Ipswich Town won a European Cup also. Leeds were one of the best clubs around and in the “big 6” until a couple of decades ago. Everton have been English champions multiple times. Brighton have skyrocketed into the top-half of the top flight over the past few years.
Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield Town were top teams in the early 20th century. Portsmouth and Wolves were both multi-year champions in the 40s/50s. etc etc.
The competition now is also much closer than you are saying, Chelsea took their eye off the ball for a few months and plummeted to their worst league position in decades. That wouldn’t have happened if the competition from every club wasn’t so vicious.
Yes it is much, much harder to “pull a Leicester” as a smaller club, but it’s not impossible, as they showed us.
Also small bit of pedantry: Chelsea already were a trophy winning, top 4 team before their money. Seems harsh to put them in the same category as City there.