Thorough analysis, but I think you’re not taking into account the fact that UEFA gets 13 spots in the cup whereas CONMEBOL only gets 5. So, in 2022, 20% of CONMEBOL teams made it to the semifinals, but only 15% of UEFA teams made it.

Well, in the US they use public money (tax dollars) to build private stadiums that the teams play in so it does seem fair

American sports can do salary caps because they have no competition. If you play American football, the NFL is the best league. There’s no other league that even comes half as close to the talent in the NFL. So, they can set whatever rules they want. But, imagine if Canada had a league with a ton of money and no salary caps and offered players billions of dollars to play there. I’d imagine a ton of top level American football players would go to the Canadian league instead. That’s kind of how it is with soccer, if La Liga introduced salary caps they’d lose talent to the Premier League or Serie A who have the same quality of football without salary caps.

I thought Bellingham was a stupid signing for Madrid but man was I wrong lol

Bold changes are needed sure but not these changes lol

Kanes time at Bayern doesn’t count for this balon d’or except maybe a few games