Are Big Clubs Too Big?
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- Are the big clubs too big? Could football get… boring?
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00:00 Intro
01:24 Are big clubs too big?
04:00 Yes, Football is getting boring.
05:18 No, polarisation is no problem.
06:45 Generation issue
08:05 Solution?
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Football won’t get boring. As long as Arsenal remain unpredictable, it’ll always be depressing.
This aged well
Still hanging on to "unpredictable" haha
@@franksorry2653 as in I can never say when they’ll win 😔
unluckyyyy
Can just say 5 words: HA HA HA HA HA
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I don’t read The Athletic but I am happy because this great channel is getting noticed! So underrated.
Are big clubs too big?
Athletic Interest : Yesn't
It’s just like Formula One. We all know that Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes are going to win but we still watch the sport and hope for an underdog story like Gasly
Well, he just won it AGAIN
@@missattorneyatlaw442 but it was an amazing race
Hamilton won, 7th one
its kinda sad that Hamilton has the same number of titles as Schumacher
i like both but Schumacher had much more competitiveness (against drivers like Senna or his rivalry with Alonso) and sometimes he won without having the best car
Hamilton had always the best car and no real rivals, still a great driver but its not the same
@@yousandro1999 That's just ignorant, the man you just used to compare Schumacher (alonso), was matched and then beaten by hamilton I his first 2 seasons! Schumacher drove an illegal benetton to a title, had to crash into others and other dodgy tactics. He drove arguably the best f1 car of all time in the f2004. Hamilton has more poles, wins and equal championships, has won in every single season he has raced in even in slow cars. Im not discrediting schumacher and I'm not claiming a goat but this hamilton hate is so unbelievably unjustified it just winds me up.
The EPL is not a UK wide league as shown on the maps.
Yeah, I was thinking some Scots would be pissed when it showed them represented by the EPL!
@@mikespearwood3914 The point still stands, there are only two clubs challenging in Scotland lol
Scotland should join the EPL & EFL, to make Scottish football relevant.
@@minqwenopinyana2327 As a Scot I can tell you that Scottish football absolutely should not. No teams are good enough for the EPL and many are not good enough for EFL. If you're Rangers and Celtic, it's better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big one.
@@adambush8129 wouldn't it be better if the best Welsh teams, Scottish and n. Irish teams created a league together to spite England
This is starting to happen in Sweden aswell. Malmö FF recently won their 21st medal, whilst the second best team with 18 medals won last in 2007 and before that during the 90s. Malmö FF is winning almost every year now and some experts are beginning to call them the Swedish Juventus.
Same here in Malaysia, a sultan son bought their state local club and pour in a lot of cash for new facilities, stadium and foreign player. They have won the league 6 times in a row, qualified for the ACL many times and now is hated by the people around the country, things do heat up even more because the sultan son is arrogant AF and like to flaunt on his wealth on the social media.
@friesmuncher nope the Johor one, JDT
@ramenclouds He talks about Johor Darul Ta'zim if I spelled it correctly.
but then in europa league they lose to FC VARDAR . thats how strong the league is actually
@@OldSchoolGamer32 Allsvenskan and Sweden in general is actually a pretty competitive region in terms of football, but for some reason our teams are doing extremely bad out in Europe. We only have 2 titles and both were Gothenburg in the europa cup during the 80s.
The partnership with The Athletic is perfect for this content. Looking forward to more in depth videos like this.
The only team I follow was #TorontoFC⚽️. I love football but afford to watch them play due to financial reasons! 🇨🇦💘⚽️
Who else came back here after the super league announcement?
Never a video was so on point, even being released some months ago...
This vid was more of like a premonition of Super League.
I like when they said unpredictability it showed a clip of Lester city
and Arsenal when they said having a good chance of winning 😂😂😂😂😂
@@franksorry2653 lol 😂
@@franksorry2653 yep!! Especially now. DOWN THEY GO!! This is my revenge for the 2013 (or 14) FA Cup final lol
As a fan of Serie A and NBA i always try to imagine a structure like nba in european football, but drafts are impossibile to accomplish with these many teams and different leagues
same with salary caps and many other things, even if all EU Members in the UEFA agree, there are still many non EU countries that play in the European tournaments, who would have a benefit then (Russia, Turkey, Switzerland, Israel etc.)
I prefer open league like now than closed league like american.
You would have to do a Europe wide draft which would be logistically impossible or players would migrate where there is no draft
Cl is better like it is right now
Drafting heavily closes out the opportunity for young talented players to play.
fascinating video, the quality and editing is very polished as well
It's easy to edit like this
1:37 What a way to manipulate data, you include the year 2000 for the NBA but not for La Liga, the year Deportivo La Coruña won La Liga.
paco ramon they could have started in 2001 and the number for nba would have stayed the same
As a fan of Panathinaikos, the answer is A RESOUNDING YES.
From competing in the UCL quarter finals every 10 years and being known here as "ambassador" of Greece in Europe, we ended up being the 4th best team in Greece.
We played in the qualifiers against teams like Atletico, Bilbao and Malaga, got knocked out all the time, and now we dont even play in Europe.
We! Who reached the 71 European Cup managing the best comeback after 4-1 in Belgrade, we beat Crvena Zvezda 3-0 in Athens. When we knocked out Alan Ball's Everton the same year.
Who beat UEFA cup holder Goteborg, as well as Gullit and Rep's Feyenoord in 1985 reaching the Semifinals...
Who reached the 96 Semifinals having beat the best team in the world, Ajax. And many champions, like Legia who eliminated Blackburn. Like Nantes (3-1) who also reached the semifinals. Like Porto. And in the worst terrains too. Literal shit in Poland. Snow in Bretagne.
Who qualified in the Group Stage 3 years in a row in 2000-2003. Humiliating Juventus in Athens. Beating Barcelona, Arsenal, Schalke, Hamburg, Porto in 2001, Cech's Sparta Praha, Eto'o's Mallorca, Anderlecht, and almost eliminated Mourinho's Porto in 2003 as well as Barcelona in Camp Nou in 2003. Qualified 2 times in a row to the quarterfinals.
Who beat Mourinho's Inter in Giuseppe Meazza by 1-0 and thrashed Ozil and Diego's Werder by 3-0 in Bremen no less. We also qualified in 2009 too...Mourinho went and shook everybody's hand.
Who beat and eliminated Roma in the Round of 32 in 2009-10. With a wonderful Cisse and Ninis partnership. With Gilberto Silva,Karagounis,Katsouranis,Leto, Salpingidis, etc.
We were also the spine of our national teams in 2004 and 2012.
And now UEFA wants to bury all these moments.
Talk about the farce that is FFP too. How Man City and PSG can do whatever the fuck they want while we get punished.
Well is all about money, clubs like Ajax, Benfica were powerhouses in Europe, today they are just exporters clubs. And the fact we have rich arabs, chinese and russians buying european clubs isnt helping also. Its sad when people say City is a bigger club then Ajax.
@@gordusmaximus4990 you mean the ajax that have a monopoly in netherlands😂
Woah Sheffield Hallam University! Fancy seeing the university that I live a 10 min walk away from featuring in this random football video
I’m studying business studies there currently, and been really enjoying this CZcams channel. What a weird coincidence
Sheffield Hallam researchers have written quite a few papers on competitive balance within europe
Where? Arundel Gate? Near Showcase Cinemas? 😜
i wanna join the uni to do digiital marketing you think i should go there?
@@ayoubbouhouch6672 Yes, its an amazing university
I like to watch 4th division games here in Germany, in this division every team can win. Also the teams are more regional and the atmosphere in the stadium is still really good.
The championship in England is also very unpredictable
Also Liga MX competition is good and anyone can win, but it's plagued with corruption
'The Athletic' sponsoring 'Athletic Interest' - it was meant to be. Great video as always too.
I'm not a traditionalist but I hope in the future competitive balance as well as a more even distribution of wealth in the football pyramid can return to football to make the game 'beautiful' again. Because in matches where you're a neutral, there's nothing worse than watching one-sided contests with predictable outcomes.
"beautiful again"😂😂😂 yeah, if there is a salary cap then all the best players will move to China or Saudi Arabia
I disagree, the more PSG and Man City buys good players, the more smaller teams become smarter and wiser in their approach to running the club, with teams like Brighton, Brentford, etc. making more money on transfers to rich clubs whilst still being competitive is a really good business model, not to mention for teams like Dortmund, Benfica, etc already exists
How can you include spurs and arsenal without including ATM in Spain, Inter in Italy or Dortmund in Germany. The English hype is killing your thoughts. If spurs can win it then so can betis, sevilla, atalanta, liebzig
This year juve is third and milan first, nobody would expect that at the start of the season
@@bruhmomento1403 true
@@bruhmomento1403 except milan is not first anymore, and everyone was expecting inter to be in the first places
@@landy4497 inter will never win a thing with that defence
You compare Betis to the others 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Spotting the issue has never been a problem for UEFA.
Doing something about it...
Well, let us not be unkind..."
Best example of "passive-aggressive" I've seen in a while. Amazing channel (also for many other reasons)!
The type of content u make is absolute high quality. Youll become famous in no time. Keep up the amazing work🙌🏽
Leceister's 2016 title win has to be one of the best underdog stories of recent times. They are what I call a underdog team with bite (good enough to shock a big name team if they are complacent)
Great, you thought of everything and summed it up very well considering how complicated the world of football is. Respect and thank you :)
Hi, great video although one mistake. There were actually 16 teams who the cup from 1980-99, you forgot to add Nottingham Forest
Great content as always❤️
I was so shocked from that but thought no one noticed it anyway..
The problem is the concentration of talents in the established teams in the top 5 leagues. The thing that might change is doing what the NBA is doing having a cap space because big teams are just buying everyone.
The players will just all leave for bigger money elsewhere
Definitely in favor of playoffs, I mean I can count on one hand how many premier league titles have been won on the last day of the season, most years, the winner is clear by February/March and we're just going through the motions. Top 4 race actually ends up being more exciting than the title race itself, if they threw in a playoffs system, we'd definitely get more enjoyment out of the end of the season. My recommendation is cut the league to 16 teams and then send more money down to the Championship, end the season a month early and have the top 8 fight for the title in a playoffs system. Whoever makes it into the semi final qualifies for the CL and then you can have another 2 games between the eliminated Quarter finalists to determine who qualifies for the Europa league. It's just way more fun that way. Do something similar at the bottom for who gets to stay in the league.
Then 4 clubs would protest heavily when you cut the league down to 16 teams. No way its gonna happen.
I have got to disagree with you guys eventhough I really like your content.
But I feel that the atmosphere regarding financial equality has changed across all generations. Most of my friends (aged in their early 20s) are bored by the big clubs like Bayern here in Germany or Juve in Italy, Paris in France and so on..
If you inherit a passion for a club from your father or grandfather you can't be happy with the current situations.
Also a club like Leipzig isn't an underdog, they represent the capitalistic turn around in football more than any other team in Europe, because the didn't even exist 15 years ago.
The big clubs in England are still keeping up in their own leagues, because they don't even own themselves anymore, but because there are huge investors from Asia and America pumping loads of money in the clubs to keep them competitive...
And tbh, every football fan should be sad to see, that you can only celebrate with a team once a year (if you're lucky). Sure Leicester was great, Ajax was a nailbiter and the giants tremble sometimes in their domestic leagues.
But - I hope I'm wrong - we will never see a new CL winner out of European top 5, we will never see something like Leicester in the EU top 5 in the next 20 years, and we have to pray that dominators like Bayern, Paris or Juventus don't only have one unlucky season and start to collect a new series after an underdogs league win, but that there's real competition again..
With england it was the same just man utd has fallen
Can't speak for European leagues but if there was ever going to be another 2015-16 Leicester, it would be this season, with all the condensed fixtures, injures and players being ruled out for COVID. If someone outside the big six can't win it this year, I don't see if happening at all. Liverpool and City (the English PSG or Leipzig) are just so far ahead that I just can't see anyone catching them because no matter how much money United, Chelsea etc. spend, those two aren't just going to stop and let the rest of the league catch-up. There's some competition between the big six for Champions League spots but apart from Leicester in 15-16, no other Premier League club has finished in the top four over the last decade.
What upsets me a little more though is we don't even have too much competition in the cups anymore. Even though the Premier League clubs (and even the Championship clubs to be fair) don't really care too much about cup runs anymore, City basically have a stranglehold over the League Cup and aside from Wigan in 2012-13, only United, City, Chelsea and Arsenal have won the cup over the last decade. Even if the league is gone, you'd think there would be some club outside the big six that would look at the FA Cup and think "Hey, we only need to win six games and we can win not only a trophy for our fans, owners and the cabinet, but also get European football next season!" but no, the league's TV money is far too important to risk the extra injuries or whatever that could lead to relegation. It's all very sad really.
@@fatforceremorse yeah man, I see that phenomenon with the cups in England as well
In Germany it's getting quite a lot of attention still, and the cup is always a chance for the underdogs, but in the end, bayern or Dortmund win it, so none of the interesting small clubs get the spot for Europa League. So it's also kinda missed chance in my opinion. But tbh I don't have any idea how to improve the cup system apart from financial equality that will lead to more suspense and atmosphere due to more open games and title races
@@fatforceremorse what club in England do you support? And do you think Everton has a shot for pl title?
@@aspirincomplex2293 There was definitely a lot of hype around Everton four games before the derby but I doubt think they are quite there yet. Top four and/or a trophy feels doable for them though.
I follow a club down in League Two called Harrogate Town so I look at the PL as entertainment as an general fan rather than having a personal investment in one club.
2020/21 premier League season has to be the most competitive ever
Serie A also looking competitive as juve is only 4th right now
@@NoName-go6oz Inter always surprisingly depressing
So are Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, and in Spain two of the three top clubs got eliminated from the cup by 3rd division club. However, it's a very special situation with Covid, with severe cuts in earnings, without a real summer break for the top clubs, et cetera. In the 2021-22 season, things could be as boring as usual in every league again.
I wouldn't say competitive.. If it was competitive, you would have to play constantly good in order to be on the top. But right now there is no team that plays extremely good, all teams are showing their weaknesses. If for example bayern came to PL this season, they would already be 15-20 points clear.
@@Nicolas-sn4vt Haha, they'd be fighting for top 6 at best if they were in a league that's competitive week in week out!
Athletic interest and tifo football videos give me so much joy
Keep it up
Great content as always❤️
Great video, but I must say that the problem of polarisation is more of a prescriptive one than a descriptive one. It is common knowledge that polarisation exists, but we are yet to truly witness it's consequences. Dealing with the problems of polarisation in a presentist approach, by function, will render any further discourse on this matter useless. By simply reforming the format to a more competitive one fails to address the issue of the problems with polarisation since in a competitive format, the bigger clubs are much more certain to perform better than the smaller clubs. Such a reform brings forth unpredictability, not competition. Thus, the question which needs to be addressed first and foremost is that is polarisation of football clubs a sustainable model for the sport. With such growing inequality, the participation from the fans lessens for various reasons, such as the increase in cost of attending or watching a match of football to account for the greater operating costs for operating at a great level of expenditure. The current pandemic serves as evidence to the fact that such polarisation is fiscally irresponsible for both the fans and the clubs.
I second this
@@arkodutt5773 podu
11 minutes of high quality content. I wish your efforts take you to where you deserve to be. 💙
Great video, top notch edit, lot of insights. This channel deserves more... but ofcourse only if they post frequently!
That editing is so amazing! Love it
Me: I don't watch Seria A
Friend: Why
Me: I already know whose going to win that.
Friend: Juve ofcourse
Watch seria A this year Juve will not win
@@toledmik7843 if u dont think juve will win serie a then u dont know how serie a works
@@siddhantgarg6899 yup lmao
@@siddhantgarg6899 I'm italian, let me hope that someone(or maybe my milan⚫🔴) will win. Juve changes a lot this year, no more kheidira-pjanic-matuidi in midfield, but young prospects like Arthur Bentancur and McKennie.
It's a big team anyway but all the story have an end. (Sorry for bad english)
Same in Germany
Perhaps TV money should be distributed more evenly as well as smaller clubs having better boards where youth is utilised and prioritised better..
How it can be wide-distributed, when the fans who pay for the subscription have a tendency to watch only their team, in my case I pay for DAZN and I only watch Atletico Madrid, and El Classico. I guess AI is smart enough to show these preferences or tendencies to the companies, so the distribution goes 80% to RMA, FCB and Atletico?
@@armendvojvoda6289 forget about who is watched the most and just pay everyone a fairer amount...
@@vismong102 I have no idea how it works, that's why I am asking. I guess USA is doing better, so Europe should follow that example.
Vis Mong
Honestly that would never happen
@@willgamezalot2513 it’s not a matter of will it happen or not I’m just suggesting ways that could make leagues more competitive but obviously this would never take effect..
Excellent content on a subject that really should be talked about more, especially with the rumours of the European super league and the big clubs such as Barcelona going through Financial times right now
You are really producing quality content! I enjoy every single video from you.
I think the easiest solution (and one done in the US) are salary caps. Redistribution of TV rights too on a more even level will help competitiveness.
Football, like Business over the last two decades, seems to hinge on aquisitions.
FFP failed, and this football situation needs to be sorted out on a global scale.
The biggest reason why u don't see this here in America is because of the playoff system. A point that he over looks and is the bigger reason why there's more competitiveness here. Also the fact that leagues here have 30 teams while in Europe, its 20 or less. Money aint the main issue
The issue is that the NBA is an american league whose players are the biggest talents of the US and the world. Meanwhile, in football, talent is spread across diferent leagues in diferent parts of the world. If there was a salary cap, players were just going to move to whetever league allows them to be payed more.
In light of the developments from the past couple of days... Yes, yes they are
Can you please do a video on the brand new international swimming league (ISL). Its very fun to watch and the conpetitive format is also very good. Love your videos. Keep up the good work
Great channel! This is a bit off-topic, but would you be able to make a video about how Spanish Real Madrid and Barcelona players cope together when they play for their national team? Heated rivalry in La Liga, but they manage to come together and play in harmony when playing for Spain.
this guy could do a 10 hour video about paint drying and i’d still watch/listen love the soothing german? accent
Great analysis - I do think the gulf (pun intended) between some of the largest clubs and those towards the bottom is too large.
Consider Man City or PSG - did they earn their place or was it bought?
As a Portsmouth fan, I am acutely aware of the fragility of football teams.
My cousin said last year that he wouldn't want Pompey back in the Premier League as it's not as interesting as leagues where the club does have the potential to win the title.
WOahhhh Dr. Alex Bond was my professor at Leeds Beckett Masters. So good to see him on a different platform
Mate seriously?🙆🏻♂️ I have never come accross such research, Hats off to you mate!! Keep rocking and keep spreading the knowledge! 🤓😜✌🏻
Athletic Interest: Are the big clubs too big?
This season: I don't think so
The same big clubs will win the top 5 leagues
@@Hero-and-Hooligan Inter, Atletico, Lille??? This season shows that big clubs won't always win every title.
@@DerNeik inter is a big club ,atletico to and the season in France is not finished
@@arandomjjbafan1744
Atlético Madrid isn't, by any means, as big as Real Madrid or Barcelona.
Besides, teams like Atalanta and Napoli are doing far better than Juventus and Milan.
A good rule that should be implemented is to impose a limit on the number of players a team can hire. This will prevent richer clubs from hoarding the best talent.
Additionally, a rule where a percentage of the team must be from home-grown talent should be explored. This could address older fans' attachment to the cultural aspects of clubs.
Not everyone can afford a recruiting network like Madrid, Barcelona or Athletic Club man.
There is a home grown rule in the Premier league.
A fantastic video. 10/10
Great job!
This is a very interesting and qualitative video thanks a lot!
Again, really great video, meaningful and unbiased.
I think you should've touched F1, which suffer the most about it (Mercedes dominating 7 years straight) and then you have teams like HAAS and Williams struggling. Also about the impact the new 2022 might impact the championship, who will it benefit.
Yeah i think F1 should do something like Moto GP who can make The Race closer. I mean Marc Marquez Maybe Champion every year but the gap is not that far because the bike it's not that diffrent Marc Just win because his Riding Skill is from space like Leo Messi in football
I have a dream that one day SC Covilhã goes to the primeira liga and that we stay for more than a year
I wish one day Ternana could play in Serie A again
And I wish one day Adanaspor plays in Turkish Süper Lig again.
I have a dream that one day Benfica wins the champions league
I have a dream that Pedras Rubras will once get to segunda liga. I don't even ask for them to stay there but at least get there ahah
@@vitorferreira1337 they won it with bella gutmann
The inside knowledge behind the video is amazing, even of it is Gauner through deep research
Great video as always!
That's exactly what I like, relevant other side we've any one has money can create a team and join the league without any quality & qualifications.
Came back here after the superleague announcement
Another great delivery! Can we please discuss buyout clauses especially those from Big Teams like Barcelona?
You also have to remember that us/can leagues have by far the best leagues in certain global sports like basketball, baseball and hockey so it’s easy for them to put in things like salary caps and drafts without worrying of players leaving
Yep. Especially since there is no relegation the superstars on these teams won’t leave their teams since there is always a shot at it next year.
Also closed leagues make the bottom of the table not exciting
Now that I saw this im kinda happy my Barcelona is struggling bc now our competition will be tougher and we wont just win trophies easily in spain, no wonder I enjoy the UCL so much despite barca bottling 3-0 leads and other embarrassing feats
that is true! it kinda gives more hype and excitement when your team wins :D
I thinking would be best if certain domestic league's would join eachother like an BeNeleague or a Scandinavian league or an Alpine league, so those clubs would get more revenue from tv deals.
I think that running those leagues alongside with domestic leagues would be great. Something like this exists in Basketball in Balkans with ABBA. Alpine league is a thing in hockey. It’s nothing new and it should be adapted to football.
You don't know what football is about
Great video, great subject, great excecution!
I actually dont think so,cuz 20 years ago leeds were on top of thing,blackburn won PL,stuff changes,10 years ago,spurs were 8th
The draft system in American sports makes so much sense to distribute talent and increase competition. Shame nothing similar could really be replicated in football
yeah, especially since football academies are already affiliated to one particular team and players can stay within that system forever. At least in the states theres a distinction between college sports and professional in terms of tiers
@@Iusethis4comments Exactly man
I think it's hard to introduce draft and salary cap while there are also promotion and relegation system
A draft system would take away some of the soul from clubs, the greatest thing to see is a homegrown hero getting to the first team of the club they wanted to play for aged 8. But a draft takes away a lot of choice players have in their early careers.
@@GeHeum Yes it’s great to see a local kid make a splash for his favorite club but it doesn’t last since the kid will likely go to an already dominant club. There are examples of homegrown stories in the US but these are very rare, the only one I can think of is LeBron. I think LBJ had a path similar to a football star, he was drafted 1 overall by his local team but then left to a big team to get some gold, but he came back and overcame all odds, the 2017 NBA final has to be one of the greatest moments in sports history (along with Leicester title) he was surrounded by a couple of pieces but everything else was mediocrity at its finest and he cam back the first 3-1 final deficit in history against arguably the best team of all time. It would be like Ronaldo going back to Sporting (I think) and winning the Champions League Final with a comeback.
nice videos on this channel!!
But the moneymakers and grabbers designed it like that. The Champions League (Europa Cup I) used to be for all Champions. 1 team from each country, to compete to see who was the best in Europe. Then the Champions League was created and then the top leagues could suddenly send in multiple teams, who all shared in the revenues. Each year, those teams get millions, which gives them an advantage over the other teams in their domestic leagues (and an advantage to those countries that send less teams). Also, those teams get points in the CL for how many teams their league can send to the CL and Europa League. So, if teams are NOT in those leagues, you cannot earn points. So the top countries have 6 or 7 teams in there, while other countries have maybe 3,2,1 or even none. And then they cannot get any points. So the system is created so that whoever is on top, will stay at the top. It used to be (in Europa Cup I) that teams like Panathinaikos, Dinamo Zagreb, Red Star Belgrade, Moscow, HJK Helsinki, Celtic, Rangers, IFK Goteborg, could play a part in European football. Now, that is absolutely impossible and you see a growing disinterest in those countries for football because of that. Most of them have either quit watching, or now just support Barca or Real Madrid. I know it will never go back to those days, but this is just an overview of how the system works now, how it upholds itself and how it is extremely unfair/unequal.
every video on this chanel is fascinating
Salary cup and stuff would only work if they made one european (super) league where the top 20 or so would end up playing. Interest for the domestic leagues would decline as the big and relevant clubs wouldn't play there anymore. Also every now and than you see a US franchise just being moved to another city. Just imagine Liverpool being moved to Moskow for money purposes. I prefer the european system
It's not all or nothing, you can take some things from the American system like playoffs and leave everything else behind, I mean that's honestly the only thing I like about American sports.
@@PeterEhik if you play playoff/plqyouts there is no suspension in te league games
@@PeterEhik Playoffs are shit...
@@PeterEhik Playoffs are bad, you play like 7-8 months the meaningless main round, when you fail than in the playoffs, all matches in the main round season were pointless. In Europe you can fight for the title, the european sports and to stay in the league.
@@Domino13334 I dont know I don't care about the best team winning because the best team is usually the team that's spent the most money. So if we had a league season and the top 4 had to go into playoffs for the league title, I think the end of the season would be far more interesting. How many league titles are decided on the final day of the season, I can only think of 3 in the premier league in the last decade. If we had playoffs, there'd be more variation in league title winners. Do the same thing for relegation and who gets to play in the champions league and you've got a super exciting end to the season every year.
This channel has such good editing!
This has been an awesome video and I never thought I would click on them but I’m super happy. I’ve been watching football my whole life and I will say that with the growing number of academies in England Spain France the competition will continue to grow because we have far more great players than there are big clubs.
But I will say like many I do want more competition like Newcastle three taken over or leads to come back or AthletiCo the Madrid to really start challenging
My family all support one of the big 6 teams but we also all support our local team. I think that’s common. It’s a good balance of having the underdogs and seeing success and trophies. Granted our local team isn’t great but they do win occasionally
Great video but umm...
9:50 - I think you switched Atalanta and Lyon :D
Here on Brazil since 2000 there were 10 Champions
I think the best way to reduce dominance of top leagues is to make a club coefficients, reverse proporcioned to association club coefficients, so the lower your association rating, the higher extras you wall get. For example, teams from 1-3 places in association club coefficients will have the same money as usual thier coefficient is 1.00 Teams from 4-6 places wall get 15% more. coefficient 1.15 Teams from 7-10 places - 30% more, coefficien 1.30, form 11-15 places 50% more coefficien 1.50 etc.
Also, Uefa can ban club TV contracts, only league TV contracts, which will have 3 types of payment 1) guarated payment, equal to all clubs for participation 2) payment for results - higher results - higher payment 3) payment for mathes, that are showed on TV, more matched showed -more payment. So it wound help small clubs, motivate to higher results, and motivate to play spectaculary. Sorry for my English, I hope you understand what I mean.
Very educateive.......and nice graphics
Everyone always claims to love underdogs in Sports, but ratings are always highest when there are stacked Super-teams.
I'm fine with the premier league right now. Yes the top 6 are most likely to win, but that doesn't mean there won't be exciting football along the way. E.g. the previous champions, Liverpool, being defeated by newly promoted Aston Villa 7-1. It's generally a lot more unpredictable than the other European Leagues.
I don't like the idea of drafts as some players become iconic to their teams. Maybe to make things fair, all the teams should get the same amount of transfer money at the start of the season. And their own money can be used for wages, facilities etc.
Well Hoffenheim beated Bayern(European champions) 4-1 so there are atleast some competition in Bundesliga
this happens in all leagues, not just the EPL. but Ig u r just a typical EPL fan.
@@villek3722 yeah but whats the point when you already know Bayern will win the bundesliga. If you look at the premier league, there at least 5 or 6 teams with a good chance of winning the premier league.
@@infernalgamer3323 there are realisticly just 2 teams that could win PL and they are Liverpool and Man city
@@villek3722 actually half of Liverpool are injured and Man city aren't playing well this season. Tottenham and Leicester are looking really good. Even if only 2 teams can win it, it better than 1 for the Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1.
Wirklich gut gemachtes Video!
I love the content on this channel. It is inspiring me to do better and reach further in my own videos too!
Hey, I know you. Visca Barca....
But Barca has betrayed their values and theirselves for money. We are on the same side as Florentino, Agnelli and a bunch of Americans who don't know the offside rule?? Have you made a video about all this? Because I would watch it. I would like to know your opinion about this.
Well, so far it doesn’t look like this in the Premier League.
it does
It’s going to happen soon if this continues.. plus the gap between the Premier League and lower leagues is huge so it’s already happening
Because City, United and Chelsea got unlimited ammount of money in Germany and Italy for example only two teams got that much money
@@panborysek5264 their asses still be regularly beaten by dark horses like Leicester and Leeds.
1:37 What a way to manipulate data, you include the year 2000 for the NBA but not for La Liga, the year Deportivo La Coruña won La Liga.
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I’m just now getting into football and I’m having a difficult time deciding which teams to support (I’m open to recommendations lol). There is a regional squad so that’s the MLS covered, but as far as European football the choice seems to be between bandwagoning onto one of these handful of goliaths (no offence if that’s you; whatever makes ya happy, you know?), which feels lame and kinda shameful, or choose among the teams leftover and just be okay with them never having a real chance at winning and resigning myself to only care about 2nd, 3rd, 4th place (depending on the league and number of actually competitive clubs)? I love the idea of relegation/promotion to motivate clubs away from tanking for draft picks (although I guess draft picks aren’t an issue for y’all), and there is a version of this problem in North America where large media markets and flashy cities (your New Yorks and Los Angeles’) attract top talent anyways, but most teams are good enough (I’m thinking basketball here) that you still more or less have that ‘any given night’ feel with each game. I don’t have a solution but when a league championship is basically a lock even before the first kick off, and the only real competition they care about is the champions league, that’s kinda busted and uninteresting.
Thanks for including Tadic' goal
0:57 Atlético Madrid have a great chance this season
*The bigger they are, the harder they fall*
is the hope that keeps the eu football fresh imo :P
This situations reminds me of tenis
the big three Djokovic, NadaL and Roger are switching turns in top 3 for years now xd
Teams are becoming too big when you take into account the fact that the winner of the league is the team with the most points after a certain number of matchweeks. However, if we only implement a playoffs system that would see the top 8 fighting for the title, that would spark huge interest from the fans as the stakes will be much higher and any team that made it to the top 8 can say: We can go for the title.
As it is now, the system for crowning champions does not allow for the stakes to be consistently high for every league and for every season.
As a Porto supporter I'm so proud to be in one of those 9 clubs that won the UCL recently. Porto still is the biggest club out of the big 5, and I can even put it side by side with PSG if we measure the history and not only the bank account or the roster (but obviously PSG have a better talent and the biggest chance to win an UCL final).
who knew months after Athletic interest uploaded this the big clubs decided to break away
I love your Videos!
UEFA needs to turn the Champions League into a March Madness type tournament. Single elimination, regional brackets with final four in a fifth region, and berths awarded on the UEFA coefficient ranking.
competition, the EPL the top 4-8 are only a couple wins apart. we have the outsiders atm leicesters and west ham in the top 4. we need this to have the game exciting
Well we’ll well here we are
I feel football is changing once again. Like in England 8 teams have a good chance of winning the league. And smaller clubs across Europe are getting better
Especially now in Premier League, teams like Aston Villa behave like their results are determined by dice, incredibly unpredictable.
@@stefangog2852 yeah, it actually makes me enjoy those matches a lot more than the biggger club matches
And the Champions League, Real might actually not qualify to the knockout stages. Thats what i like in football, unexpected results
If small clubs get better big teams will just throw money at their good players and the small clubs get screwed
True, it looks like that way. But take any of that "smaller " clubs and look what have they done (or will do) in 5 years period.
They can flash, do a good work one year...but they don't have funds to compete with "giants " in a long term.
And they will never have a chanse...take that Leicester for example. They are funded by private money, but sponsorships will never grow to heights like for example Tottenham have...just because they are not from big city.
Well big clubs will never get the complete monopoly or the European football will never get polarized as Teams depend more on management than income. Like AC Milan was one of the biggest teams in Europe but now their effect is reduced due to poor management. The same can be said for Barcelona. They make the most money but their poor management has led them into problems. Once they were invincible , before 2015 but they are in huge trouble which will increase to manifolds if Messi lefts. income is a big factor, but managers and the administration decides the clubs fate like Mourinho did when he led Fc Porto to Champions league victory
Bruh, the timing of this recommendation is millions to one!
100% this man is an insider
I don't even watch sports, but I like well done explainer videos, good job!
3:50 that ain't the sevilla shield! it's sevilla's exitnct puerto rican division, which shares a lot of similarities when it comes to the shield. just pointing it out!
Very good editing quality!
Had to rewatch this after European super league vs uefa war
I don't know one you familiar with IPL or not,
But IPL is completely different..
Every Team are alloted with same amount purse. And, then there going to be a Big Auction and Every Team have equal opportunity to buy any player, So it doesn't matter how much big the clubs are and rich the owner are, all of them going to be alloted with same amount .
So, it means Game began from the day of auction.. That's why IPL is getting Popular day by day, 2020 IPL broken all Viewrship Records..
I hope You one Viedo on IPL...
The American model is the way but football is soo huge
But it's the exact opposite when it comes to BCCI.
BCCi ECB n CA are the main reason for slow development of cricket in other countries.
India adopts a successful model for IPL but stands against that very same when it comes to ICC.
This will slowly kill intl cricket.
@@numairx6034 I agree but, That is partially True also in this video we were talking about..." How can a league become more competitive and provide everyteam with equal opportunity".. I believe IPL is perfect league, of Equal opportunity for all Team and it's quite Competitive compare to any other league comparing across the globe..
These Leagues need to adapt and add some knockout stage football/playoff structure. Maybe play 30 Prem League games, top 8 make the knockout stage and go from there. These games would no doubt have high viewership but adding a playoff system will 100% garner fan interest and that adds the wildcard of a cinderella champion as a possibility(team not expecting to win but go on an unstoppable run). I think adding this would allow the smaller clubs to chase after the playoffs, it could work and I thought it could’ve been done years ago but they are seriously too lazy to change the structure of European Football, league football every week gets boring. Add a playoff and you can crown a true champion
Honestly, I'm happy with the current state of Premier League. Newly promoted clubs get huge bonuses, and we constantly see new exciting teams like Aston Villa and Leeds. Leicester sold their best players after they won the league yet now they are again challenging for the trophy with a probably even better team. Klopp's and Guardiola's honeymoon periods are starting to wear off, and new challengers are ready to take the crown.
Whether this will last for long is an interesting question, but if it does, I'm happy.