Has The Premier League BROKEN The Transfer Market?
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2022
- This summer, newly-promoted Nottingham Forest have had a higher net spend than every La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, and Ligue 1 team combined, and the Premier League as a whole has outspent its nearest competitors, La Liga, by a ratio of 8:1.
Not only can clubs outside of the Premier League no longer compete with the division's spending power, many leagues are now dependent upon Premier League teams signing their best players for huge transfer fees just to remain competitive.
So in light of the recent signings of Casemiro by Manchester United and Alexander Isak by Newcastle United, HITC Sevens takes a look at the finances of the Premier League compared with Europe's other top leagues, the growing disparity between them, and asks the question as to whether the top flight of English football has finally broken the transfer market. - Sport
You know things have gotten out of hand when clubs are willing to spend 100m on a benchwarmer
Who's the benchwarmer?
@@scandinavian_plagueis Grealish most probably would fit as an example.
If you implying Grealish, he starts around 30 match for City last season. Hardly a benchwarmer.
@@Kaisar9000 starts or played
@@Kaisar9000 not because he started 30 meant he deserves to. The guy barely does anything 😂. Definitely not a Man City player
Given the current TV deals in the PL, the absolute worst time to have got relegated was around 2012. Like Bolton.
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The Boltons asked for it after what they pulled in Game of Thrones.
@@dvdv8197 They don't want it
@@dvdv8197 what did you they may i ask
@@dvdv8197 guess living in a basement in your mummy's house
E.g. Charles De Ketelaere :
He was wanted by AC Milan, arguably one of the three biggest clubs in Serie A, for 35 mill, whereas Leeds United, 17th in the Premier league, had no problem offering him 40 mill.
Thank God De Ketelaere was given the opportunity to go to Milan!
I guess at this point it depends on the player's mentality and point of view, sure, playing in the EPL guarantees big wages and good money, but... in the Leeds example, CDK would had played in a team that the best it can aspire is to a middle table position or Conference League spot, sure, he would won more cash, but it will drop his levels in competition considering that Bruges is already playing the Champions League and it is the Belgium champion, the same thing goes to Milan who is playing Champions League and is the current Italian champion.
@@badasstasticusbadass4908 Brugge were unwilling to accept Milan’s offer as Leeds were offering more, Milan are lucky CDK only wanted them lol
@@rfcm7242 Well, shows that Money isn't everything, huh?
@@badasstasticusbadass4908 you could also say that by going to the EPL, you're already playing some of the best competition every week vs being at Club Brugge or AC milan, you are already at the top of the league without much challenge every wee.
@@djacks247
Playing the best competition every week? Looking at most players, it is like they are sleeping almost every other week. Most players just go there and enjoy the lifestyle and money. As long as they finish above 17th it is no worries.
While at Brugge and/or Milan. You actually have to fight each week to stay on the top.
They already started this years ago. It's not fun anymore.
agreed
Even as fan of premier league club I don’t enjoy it
Biggest problem that I see with PL Clubs spending as much as they do is that they barely seem to have a coherent plan of how to use the players they sign. They just seem to go for names without properly scouting and finding out about a players strenghts and weaknesses
Some will do that, like Manchester United, but teams like Liverpool and Manchester City have a clear long term vision and plan with their spending (at least in recent years)
either youre trolling or yours just ignorant and young. a lot goes on behind the scenes of clubs. watch some documentaries and they show these behind the scenes on how the clubs are run
Seems like a pretty generalised statement to me. Clubs like Liverpool, Brighton, Man City certainly don't do that.
@@olly_evansMajority of players that city bought didnt flop and were turned world class
Looking at you, Chelsea
Its just insane seeing pl clubs paying 50-80mil for average players. I mean for 70million I want a Zidane no Isak
He scored 6 goals in la Liga last season 🤣
£10 for a slap up dinner too
@@DonorClique The price tag only seems reasonable if one is getting the 20-21 Isak that scored 17 goals.
It’s not that there spending that money. It’s newly promoted sides that are spending over a hundred million. That’s the power of the premier league
@@tomjones7184 PL biggest power is that I immediatly go K.O. when I look at ticket pricing
Yes they have. Paying 70 million for average players is unfathomable
Not once, but that’s the norm or city spending 100M in a bench warmer
For me it seems like a lack of scouting. Barely any players break through big teams anymore if there isn't a spot free
Simple, now clubs and couches prioritize quick and fast results from a team rather than letting the team have time to develop so that means youth player with no experience are a gamble and a couch rather than losing his job with giving the chance to youngsters goes ahead and ask the club for experience player to fill the squad with
That is not lack of scouting. They have the talent they just loan them out because they prefer world class players over upcoming talent
Saka martinelli phil foden Harry Kane mason mount David de gea
Allowing B Teams in the Football & National Leagues would go a long way to solve that issue.
@@MrSmith1984 It also devalues the leagues in question. It also furthers that the big clubs getting bigger by hogging spots that are normally hold by a proper club.
B Clubs in professional football leagues are absolutely the worst.
We have B teams in our regular leagues and it brings nothing but disadvantages.
Serie A hardly only has big 3, but "Seven sisters" Consists of: Milan, Inter, Juve, Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina, Napoli. Lazio and Napoli, Roma have also been challenging for titles, and Atalanta and sassuolo have been exciting. The dynamics of these clubs positions and tactics changes from year to year. Personally i find it way more interesting than the Premier League. However just how well the prem's marketing has been, combining with just the fact that English is the most widely spoken language in the world, competitiveness is hardly a big deciding factor at all.
Serie A is only just coming back. The 2011-2016 was the worst era of serie a becoming 4th/5th best league which is way too low for what Serie A was. They try to come back but still a way to go before they come near to what they were early 2000s. The return of inter and milan is crucial to the league’s success
Roma won the 2000/2001 season and Lazio won the year before. Since then, it's been between Juventus and the Milan clubs. That's over 20 years. Oh, and Milan and Juventus divided the league titles equally between them between 91 and 99 without even bothering to invite Inter.
So much for those seven sisters.
The era of the Seven Sisters will never be repeated. I think there's a case in the coming years of 5 genuine contenders for Serie A if Milan clubs, Roma, Juve and Napoli keep it up. Lazio and Atalanta are the potential spoilers but I can't see them challenging for anything except the cups.
I think the lull period of 2009-2014 is in the background now.
@@imtiaz3554 It seems to me that the 7 sisters era is coming back.
Serie A lost their chance to market their golden age.
10:15 that's pure, biased, speculation. Europa League and Conference League, where mid-clubs play against mid clubs, were won by non-english clubs.
Have you seen the teams that Premier League teams put out in those competitions? They are second string players. It's treated as a chore to be in those "tournaments". Saying that even West Ham beat Sevilla and Lyon last season and they barely had a first team fit and available.
@@jbsmith8848 Soucek was pretty active in that competition along with others...just that the grapes are sour
In the 1950s, when live televised football started to get going, the theory was that people would stop attending matches and everyone would watch football in 'their armchair behind glass screens' ~ on the contrary it served as an advert for more people to attend and soak up atmospheres.
It was also theorised that a select group of football clubs would become dominant forces and there will be a huge gulf in quality ~ They got that bit spot on.
I recall when Eleven Sports started airing matches at 3pm, then got told off for doing so, then argued that the "blackout" was outdated.
That’s really interesting. Do you have anything I can read about their predictions?
Midtable Bundesliga teams are still pretty damn good, maybe you forgot that 11th placed Frankfurt won the Europa League last season, beating the likes of Barcelona and a supposedly better premier league midtable West Ham that was 7th placed. And they reached the semi final a couple years earlier where they drew twice against chelsea and just barely got knocked out on penalties and beat the likes of Lazio and Inter in that campaign.
Good video which was clearly, as ever for HITC Sevens, well researched and even handed. However I disagree totally that the teams who finish at or near the bottom of the EPL, despite the inflated salaries handed to their transient migrant players, would finish mid table in Spain or Germany. Bournemouth, Norwich, Fulham, Watford, West Brom and Sheff Utd et al, would be battered most weeks in both leagues and likely battle against relegation. > 66% of all the players in the EPL are foreign players but apart from the elite types who end up at Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man Utd and Spurs, the remainder are carpetbaggers who only serve to block young indigenous talent from breaking through.
100%, just like Villareal who finished 7th in the last 2 years but also won the Europa league (beating Arsenal in the semis and Man U in the final) and reaching the semis of the Champions League last year. While I still think the Prem is the best league in the world, it is extremely overrated.
Frankfurt are the first German team to win a European trophy not named Bayern in 25 years so no German teams are not good.
That Deportivo side with Makaay, Tristan, and Valeron was formidable
As a united fan, I hated that team lol.
Yet in the early 2000s money changed especially sponser and TV rights which Barca and real were rewarded for no reason over 95% of the rights. So the big teams at the time Valencia,deportivo and Celta could never compete again
@@petesmart1983 Not really, those teams were terribly managed. And those projects died. La Liga didn't do nothing to fix that and let those clubs sink. Tebas seems to be an agent to make Spanish football die.
I disagree that the bottom of the premier league would be likely to finish mid table in La Liga or the bundesliga. They'd have a decent chance but take a look at how well the spanish teams have been doing in europa league.
It is true that the premier league is outspending the other leagues.
They keep saying big six. But when you really analyse it's just big 2. Look at the points difference between the top 6 of all the top 5 leagues the 2 English clubs -liv & m. city- have the biggest margin, almost as big as Bayern and Psg. No competition. It's the 2 and the rest. It's competitive financially.
@@MrFeezy91 The prem league was never the most competitive league even in 70s or 80s . Better marketing helps create that image. Both man u and liverpool were the big daddy of the premier league until Chelsea came to dominance in 2000s due to abramovich and wengers arsenal before the emirates stadium decision. Those also happened in spades like 2 or 3 seasons maximum and now Manchester city. Blackburn rovers and leicester were once in a fairy take football stories. Prem was never more competetive only marketed that way.
@@MrFeezy91 This comment aged badly...
@@MCDrB-wq8edeven now arsenal and man city are the big 2, its the turn for the rest of the "big 6" to turn into the mid table bitc* to get fed by the top 2.
It has always been like that in the prem, 2 teams competing for the top, 4 teams competing for the UEFA champions league.
Look at the serie A right now, it is like 10 teams all competing for the champions league and napoli went crazy because of good scounting (to be fair last year it was even more competitive).
@@mattia8327 Yeah it was a joke about how badly Liverpool are doing this year. Hence why I think he edited it and drew a line through Man City and Liverpool.
100% delusional even to think the bottom team of the premier league would finish mid table in La Liga Bundesliga or Seria A lol 😂
The europa league was won by a mid table Bundesliga team.
Norwich Watford Burnley winning europa league of finish mid table in Bundesliga La Liga Serie A? 🤡🤡🤡!!!
That statement make me go "wtf?". Like 5 years ago even la liga's 3 or 4 next best teams after atletico madrid were better than the Premier league's big 6
There's a difference between a 38 game season and a European competition 🤡🤡🤡
@@_.008
Bro the other leagues are on average all stronger than premier league the numbers proof that.
@@_.008 yet the champions league is what's usually used to decide the best club in the world each year...
Also you talk as if the non english teams don't play in 36-38 game seasons too...the english teams doing poorly in the other competition means something. You CANNOT ignore it 🤡🤡🤡
epl is an English language league and a lot of countries around the world is familiar with English and england,this is the reason for such high revenue. But the marketing of epl should get some recognition as well
Already,the marketing of the EPL has been recognised far wide for years,good friend Golam Rabbi!!!
It cause premiership ruined English football
The prem spends the most, but usually overpaying. Quite often, as a Bayern supporter, I watch prem teams paying huge sums for players I would never consider good enough for us. Your league just gets taken advantage of, and rightly so.
Just far more money in the Premier League, its as simple as that.
@@matthewaxe6647
Exactly the clubs have price tags and separate price tags for premier league clubs
@@cmenomore8119 Prem is swallowing the other leagues. There will always be massive teams in Europe but the Premiership is starting to dominate via the coefficients
@@matthewaxe6647
Nope completely impossible.
Premier league is only able to swallow the other leagues if they bloat their rosters with 90 players each team.
If not there will always be enough quality players left to compete with the premier league no matter what the premier league is doin.
theres just too much money floating about
I think it is really showing how clubs from other countries are unable to turn down offers from Premier League clubs for certain players as they can't risk losing out on turning a huge profit, more so than they would through selling players to other leagues for the most part. Take Ajax who potentially will make more money selling two players to Manchester United than they did all of last season. It will get to the point where even leagues outside the top 5 will struggle to ever hold on to a decent player effecting them long term in performing well in Europe. Even teams that get relegated from the Premier League and bounce between that and the Championship will financially be better off than most of the bigger teams in Europe.
Ajax always have to sell players now as the Dutch league make very little in advertising and TV rights, the level of football has dropped so much in Dutch league which was well above French and similar level to Spain and Germany in the 80-90s. It just money ruined football
@@petesmart1983 Ajax would be wise to leave the Dutch League in favour of a bigger one...
well the problem is not that they have to make profit, which should be normal, the problem is that there are teams in the prem that dont need to make profit
@@MrSmith1984 the Belgium pro league and the Dutch league are combining to better compete with the other European leagues
@@louisfranz1941 To be fair; Barcelona, Real Madrid and the Milan Clubs are not expected to make a profit either.
Likewise I would point out that only 2 PL Clubs (Manchester City & Newcastle) have owners that are more interested in PR than profits. And only one of them are in the CL.
The thing that we often forget is the the Premier League is mostly Ebglish speaking and English becoming everyone's second language (at least in Europe, East Asia, and the Gulf States) means that the people who have the money to support teams financially eventually end up in England. If you have to learn German to properly follow Dortmund, you probably wouldn't do it even if learning the language might come in handy outside of football, but if you learned English for 10 years in school and the majority of media you consume is in English, consuming football in English isn't even a stretch. Yes, every big club and league also has English social media accounts and English speaking players, but that's not the same as watching Salah's interviews without a translator.
If we had all this 100 or 200 years ago, French football would have a lot more followers.
That’s the main reason for success of premier league it’s the most international league and everyone can relate to.
La Liga does have a spanish character the Bundesliga does have a german character and Serie A does have a italian character but the premier league is everything except of being english.
Majority of players are non english majority of coaches are non english and majority of clubs are owned by non english so basically everything what makes the premier league good is non english and this the key for international success.
@@cmenomore8119 I agree the Spanish league is very boring to watch due to it being mostly Spanish players and Spanish coaching. It's literally 4 passes then a foul, 4 passes then a foul. I think the German league is more fun to watch and obviously the English Premier league is far superior in terms of quality and entertainment due to us being able to poach the best players/managers from around the world thanks to our TV revenue income.
It's football.. who gives a shit what language people speak, I've never heard of people not liking Barcelona because they don't speak English.
I don't know you're age but the English league has been the laughing stock because of the kick and rush playstyle for decades.. people had no problem ignoring them and watching the Serie A/la Liga/Bundesliga, regardless of the languages.
It's all about where the best players play.
Nobody is watching the MLS, the most English speaking league in the world presumably.
@@erikstigter7897 I'd say the 90s is the only decade where English teams didn't compete very well in the champions league. 70s and early 80s was dominated by England and post 2000 they have performed very well. I think the investment in St George's Park and the higher quality youth coaching nowadays is why English teams/players have caught up. Due to our stricter laws surrounding the amount of hours our younger youth players can play compared to La Liga we will always find it hard to match foreign players for technical ability. The technical ability of the average Spanish player is amazing but not so for the average English player where we have to rely on better physical attributes
You are completely forgetting to mention that London is the money washing capital of the world....that's why if you wanna spend your dubiously earned money you move to the UK (and why so many rich foreigners are investing the the Premier League, money is much safer there than at home)
Yes it has. The premier league and Psg. Barcelona had that year where they went crazy after the neymar sale and real madrid buy expensive stars from time to time. However that is a given due to the size of the clubs. Now, to have a bang average club like Newcastle spend 70mil like it's nothing and west ham bidding 60mil for lucas paqueta is beyond the wildest dreams of clubs like porto or benfica or lyon etc. Clubs with much much richer history and arguably better clubs. It's crazy.
West Ham bought Scamacca for 48 Mil.. no Italian Club could afford to pay it. So he moved from Sassuolo to West Ham. By passing Milan, Juve and Inter
@hfc bruh Nottingham Forest are probably going to spend £150m by the end of the window
English game has more richer history than any other country on earth the founding fathers of the game. Newcastle was prem champions back in 97 or 98 and have the top goal scorer in english football (Shearer). Nottingham Forest who spent 42 Mill on gibbs-white and 2x champions league winners. West ham have got to a couple of European finals winning one of them in 1965
@@JJones-oi3jc lol I see you're one of the premier league english football defenders that whenever someone claims any English club is average you bring up something from the 1960s to claim said club reached a final or one something. Go back to bad you son. West ham are as average as they come and so are Newcastle. Congrats. Nottingham forest won the champs before you were born but then again so have red star Belgrave. Well done on the richer history. Made tournaments official before other countries. Nice one. As if football wasn't being played in Brazil or France before the English started. What a ridiculous notion. Never in their wildest dreams could a team like wet ham compete with a 5 times champions league winner benfica or a porto. Or a lyon. If it weren't for the fact that the prem tv deals give those clubs millions.
@@FurioussBear Not all I was just stating that English teams apart from the top 6 do have a rich history. Maybe you should go back to bad lol history makes up everything we live for today. Ali for boxing, Bolt for the Olympics etc. You know what I'm trying to get at
I'd say I can't wait for the bubble to burst but if it does it's the smaller teams who pay the price
If the midtable teams of the English league are so better than the rest then win the Europa league then.
it’s a shame that mid table doesn’t get you europa league football because then you might’ve actually had a point
@@lollol9772 Leicester lost conference. West Ham lost europa these aren’t big 6 clubs. We will see how West Ham does this year but I see Villareal besting them
Unfortunately, in England finishing anything up to 8th or 10th place will give a team more prize money than winning the Europa league, including the money from the Champions League qualification.
As such, they focus on the league with the hopes of breaking in the top 4, like Leicester. Thus, they both get huge prize money for their spot in the league and Champions league qualification. You also have to keep in mind that there is a lot more traveling involved in the Europa League - players have less time to rest and the club spends a lot more money on traveling costs.
@@8wayz2shine yes winning europa gives 25-30 million euros in revenue, the teams get more from the league.
@@1uamrit you forgot the ucl qualification that is a lot more valuable than that...
And its not only the money, its also the status...
i watch everything you upload to HITC Sevens Alfie, your semi-long format content and style hits the spot
Yes the premier league has broken football, they said they don’t want the super league yet they are making their own. “Football for the fans” hahah
PSG broke it when they signed Neymar for €200m and Mbappe on Loan in one window, the transfer window hasn't been the same since
Eh, COVID reset it everywhere outside of England imo
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In England I'd lean more towards City's constant £40-60m buys a while back doing it, PSG's 368 million on those two is crazy but they're exceptional circumstances.
2 huge signings like Mbappe/Neymar aren't really going to affect the market as a whole when you know players + price tags like those aren't going to come along often, but when clubs see another club constantly happy to pay a particular price for pretty much everyone they buy that is more likely to inflate the price of the average deal.
That is one team in one league and the top team at that. Not one other League can say they have teams getting promoted to the top league and then all have the ability to spend large sums of money. When teams like that can out spend the vast majority of teams in Europe you know there is an issue that will only financially benefit one League in the future. The longer teams stay in the Premier League more even mid table teams will be on par with the biggest clubs in other countries financially even if they don't play in a European competition.
@@paulclynes9865 difference is once neymar and mbappe(mbappe usually would've went for 60-75 back in the day) that teams started to really beef up there price tag...dembele got sold for 130 that summer...coutinho 150...Ronaldo 100... Maguire then went for almost 90 kepa 80... Basically teams could just hike up prices for players simply for being young back in the day fergie refused to buy Lucas moura for 40 mil back in 2012 but now Lucas moura for 40 mil in the same position would be a steal maybe...so yh the neymar transfer basically broke something and just caused a massive jump in how teams price players because jack grealish really shouldn't be a 100m priced player but buy the modern standards and pricing he easily is
You hit the nail on the head by saying that European teams kept all the gold between a few of them, and the solution is sharing revenues better in European leagues, as the Premier League was built upon.
Same as females should get the same right?! Even though there is nowhere near the pull or revenue 🤦🏻♂️
@@martzp5535 mens and women's football aren't even the same sport my friend
@@princemarwin5182 that's my point it's a sarcastic reply lol
English prem pulls the money in but it should be shared equally across Europe, how far down do we go? Do Halifax, juventus, Man City , Moreton all get equal shares 🤦♂️
@@martzp5535 I think the other guy meant leagues like La Liga shouldn’t give such large shares of the tv revenue to Barcelona and Real Madrid. It’s good for everyone in the long run for weaker clubs to get more revenue.
Mid-table prem clubs are not better than those across other top 5 leagues, when was the last time crystal palace won a european trophy? In the last few seasons, Villareal and Eintracht Frankfurt have won the europa league while being mid table and villareal reached the semis recently, Roma finished outside the big 4 in serie a and won the conference league.
Except Villarreal and Frankfurt had to have finished in the top 6 minimum to have even been in the competition in the first place, i.e. not mid-table (cup wins obviously get them there as well, but both countries almost always have the same few teams winning them, just like any other league).
They're not mid-table teams in the slightest, but only dropped in the league due to putting so much effort into winning the EL (Villarreal only dropped to 7th, so still not really mid-table). If Palace, an actual mid-table team, had a surprising season and finished in the EL places, and then decided to focus mostly on their EL campaign the following season, they would be at real risk of relegation because of the fierce competition around them in the league. Frankfurt and Villarreal, the latter especially, don't have that worry of relegation if they focus on Europe, because they're not mid-table teams.
The German and Spanish equivalents to Palace winning the EL would be FSV Mainz and Rayo Vallecano.
Mid table teams from the Premier League don’t qualify for European competitions because the top 6 exist.
@@Mark-uh3un For the two seasons leicster was in the Europa they struggled, Burnely struggled in their qualification campaign, as did West Ham under Bilic, and this year West ham were knocked out by 11th place Eintracht Frankfurt, the very fact that Sevilla dominated so much in the Europa league a few years ago means that they were better than premier league teams equivilant to them at the time, those who finished 4-6
Real madrid won ucl (spain )
Frankfort won europa league ( germany )
Roma won conference league ( italy )
The pl teams got nothing last season
The main Issue with the Transfer Market is that too many Players are going back & forth too Frequently ….. ⚽️
Which is very convenient to their agents.
This is probably why younger/newer fans follow players instead of clubs. The high rate of turnover of players makes it very hard to identify with a club.
@@totsh2056 That's such a myth. Your point only stands when we're talking about Messi and Ronaldo who are two of the greatest phenomenons this sport has ever seen and have thus cultivated a fanbase bigger than most clubs. Maybe we'll see than in the future with Haaland and Mbappe.
Your point is only applicable to the elite of the elite, world superstars and not mere football players.
Supporting one single footballer is just not as appealing or engaging as supporting a club and it will never be unless the player in question is a larger than life brand in of itself. The only other exception to the rule is players from a certain country, generally African and Asian countries in particular supporting a star player from their nation who has made it big in a top European league and is as such representing an entire country and it's people, thus drawing strong patriotic pride and support. For example, Son in South Korea, Salah in Egypt etc.
@@areebsiddiqui758 perhaps.
@@totsh2056 nah that’s just gen z naivety and susceptibility to marketing
It’s the TV deals the Prem teams get. Other teams in Europe want a piece of it so they raise the price of players values 35-50% in some cases
Day 311: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.
are there notable players who would declare for Indonesia? Genuinely curious
None at all. He will end up being on day 2927 before he gets fed up
@@misterwardy1972 for some reason I don’t think he’s done it for 311 days 😅
You have to admire the dedication, but it’s not happening is it…
Day 300000: Indonesia no longer exists so this request would be pointless
The 1992 break away from the EFL was done to make money.. not improve football. UEFA did the same when they changed the European Cup in 1998 to include non league winners.. in a bid to get as many Popular teams in the UCL as possible for TV Ratings.
The further influx of oil money into the English game has fast tracked us to this point.. PSG showed the way.. and now you have a market where Gordon is worth 60M, Isak is 58M... Gibbs White is 45M. Football has never been less balanced than right now. The days of Nottingham Forest winning back to back UCLs 2 yrs after promotion are gone.
It has also become impossible to build a successful team from academy since rich clubs will hoover up all the talent of a poorer club that got it right.
I personally don't watch EPL any longer.. 3 oil clubs fighting for supremacy is not appealing.
The SOUL and Spirit of football was sold off long ago and maybe the European Super league wasn't really as bad we thought. The PREMIER league is already what the SUPER league was criticised for .Norwich having. More revenue than BENFICA which reached UCL QF in the last 5 years says it all
Lol, wanker
Talking about the soul of the premier league being gone and everything being about money etc and then saying the Super League isn't that bad??!?! Bizarre take
@@matthewaxe6647 He is saying that the super league isn't that bad of a monstrocity compared to the premier league, so in a way, we already have a super league with the premier league, so the step to a european super league isn't as big as we thought and moaned about
@Micah Kiyimba
Nottingham Forest won 2 European Cups, not Champions Leagues.
An important distinction, and arguably one of the biggest problems.
@@matthewaxe6647 The super league was elitist and arrogant but at least they were not pretending that it was an endeavor to improve the game like the Premier league does. ESL was honest even though it was detestable
Lovely and heartwarming final thoughts there Alfie, cheers
Watching UCL and EL Spanish sides have been so impressive. Sevilla, Villarreal, and Atletico have had amazing runs alongside Real Madrid and Barcelona these past fifteen years.
This century English sides have been Liverpool, Chelsea, and Manchester United at either competition. Arsenal, Tottenham, and Manchester City have all failed to win either of those competitions.
Can spend all you want and have tremendous revenue, but for me as a supporter silverware is paramount to measuring success.
It would seem to me that the PL and players linked with a movie to the PL are almost a done deal as you say no other club/league can offer the fee and wages. As a Scottish football fan it's almost jaw dropping the gap between our league and the PL as the quality up here is poor. I'd love to see in an ideal world a financial parity, as our Scottish sides weren't always a laughing stock and could compete. But as they say money talks, bullshit walks
Out of interest, would you like Scottish and English football to merge? At least the ceiling of what your club can achieve would be higher but it would probably be a little harsh at first with only rangers (I assume) in the prem…Big issue I see would be the away days which I imagine would be quite intense!
I remember when Zidane goat imho.. Got sold for a record fee of £48 million.. I mean today that’s the price for compared to Zidane “average” players .. But shit went sideways with Chelsea first, following Man City and then PSG went completely crazy tbh!
This is Barcelona’s fault.
While it's true that middle to low table teams in the premier league have many times more money to spend than those of other leagues, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're more competitive teams. Villarreal B won against Wolves in a friendly this summer. I repeat, Villarreal B.
Friendlies count for nothing though. The aim is to give the players some match practice and hope they don’t get injured. I watched Rayo Vallecano draw with Birmingham City (a weak second tier English team) in a friendly. Rayo then drew with Barcelona in their opening fixture.
Friendly though, Man U beat LFC in a friendly 4-0. Doesn't mean they are 4-0 better
@@mootownjunk Yeah, i agree, it was just a friendly and they don't really count. I was just trying to point out that wealth in the transfer market doesn't represent competitiveness or squad strength.
I agree! Frankfurt (11th in Bundesliga) beat West Ham in Euro League last season. If Prem teams are so strong why don’t they smash everyone in Europa League every year? Just cos they burn money at an alarming rate doesn’t mean the players they buy from other leagues start playing better just because they get paid more.
@@EisernRob too much money in England these days all to comon for these 70 mil transfers to flop
Great content thanks for making this video. I was discussing this topic with my dad about how the Premier league has become its own super league. What I will admit though is compared to any other leagues, any game regardless if it’s a mid table or bottom sides of the table it is very competitive (exclude 9-0 match liv vs bourn) and fun to watch. Because of the spending in the league could you do a video of what if the Premier league had a relegation promotion playoff and Premier league title playoff. Very curious to know your thoughts on this in the future.
Usually agree and love the opinions on this channel, but I really doubt someone like Bournemouth would beat the likes of Betis, Celta, Real Sociedad, Villarreal…
But yeah, as a brit living in Spain who watches both leagues, I can say the biggest problem in Spanish football is the way tv money is distributed
It was distributed evenly in the last few years.
tv deals arent anything compared 2 what english teams spend. it is mostly owners pouring money into football clubs like its nothing. now players who hardly hv 50 league appearances w only a couple goals r going 4 50mil pay checks (gordon, gibbs-white)
Great video Alfie. I always like to discuss and confront people from other leagues about football economic status, but most seem oblivious to what is pretty clear. This is an economic anomaly and who knows how it going to end.
Personally, I think moving to the prem outside the top 6 with the exception of maybe 2-3 teams is a total career killer. I understand it's good money but most of the time the football you play is turgid. Do you really think Onana and Kamara will become better footballers playing for the likes of Everton & Aston Villa? It's maybe why in recent seasons we have seen young english players going abroad, do you think the likes of Sancho, Tomori and Bellingham would have become half the players they were if they'd slogged it out trying to eek out 1-0 wins to survive at some mid table side.
Well you didn't consider the most important factor, Inflation. Nearly every issue becomes half if you consider Inflation. On top of that, Italy was doing same thing in 1980s. PL at least generates it's revenue. Everyone was afraid Serie A will ruin football and what happened. I think state ownerships are bit of a worrying sign as but if FFP is implemented a bit everything will be fine
I honestly don't remember there being this big of a fuss when Serie A and La Liga were dominating Europe and the transfer market (when the best players and above average players wanted to play in those leagues) and constantly breaking transfer records.
I guess the points made in the video totally went over your head then. The financial power of the Premier League is factors more, than the other big leagues combined. Take Nottingham Forest for example, which had summer spendings comparable to FC Barcelona. When a club, I never even heard of, can do that, just imagine what it will be like in a few years as the gap will only widen. Competitions like the Champions League will become obsolete, because only english teams will be winning it. Might as well make it another english cup competition at that point.
@@jonasjonas8358 if you took time to read my reply to understand, instead of reading it to respond you'd realise the very same points you've talked about are what I talked about (I even did brackets like this one, talking of players moving to those leagues because of the financial power that the Spanish and Italian top flight had over the Premier League). The concentrated financial power of one league over another isn't new, just that this one has too big of a fuss attached to it.
@@_CrissoN I'm sorry, but 'the concentrated financial power of one league over another' was always limited to a few select clubs.. teams like Real Madrid, Bayern and Juventus always had their pull, sure. But name me one freshly promoted team from those leagues, at any given point, that could outspend multiple top teams from other leagues. That never happened before, which is the main point in this argument.
@@jonasjonas8358 I get your point, really I do and I'm not disproving it, I'm just saying at any point in time, ONE league is certainly going to do better than all the rest. When Real Betis were breaking the world transfer record for players, La Liga was on top, and before that was Serie A. The PL is an exception, but not by accident, the league is the most attractive for a reason, I just don't understand why a fuss is being made over the PL making good investments, and not what the other leagues did wrong from a stronger position to fall behind (La Liga and Serie A)
Not sure I agree with the point about mid table teams in the prem being better than mid table teams in any other league. Case in point: la Liga has absolutely dominated the UEFA cup/ Europa league for the last 10+ years.
Those were mostly failed champions league teams from La Liga who got booted out in the group stage not mid table teams . What have Sevilla done in the champions League? Even Leicester knocked them out. Almost every Europa League winner from Spain were kicked out of the champions League that season
that because the premier league teams would normally focus on the league. Since the UEFA cup gives a Champions league place, they have been taking it a lot more seriously and as a result are doing better in it. Also mid table teams dont qualify for the UEFA cup, normally top 6 teams
not better, but as said, they earn more and spend more, eventually they will dominate, probably soon
Its certainly not quality is it. The vast majority of English teams play their fringe players in those competitions and when they don't they tend to do well. West Ham knocked out Sevilla and Lyon last season and they had about 13 senior players in their squad.
@@matthewsmith455 4 of them usually get past the groupstage thus avoiding the Europa league
I was hoping for a quick look at how the club coefficients of Premier League clubs have moved around in comparison with other leagues. This will have real significance in coming years, since the changes to UEFA Champions League qualification grants two qualifying spots to teams that rank the highest on that continental table without qualifying outright. With the Big 6 of the Prem being where they are, all six of them are almost guaranteed a spot in any given year as long as they can all make the top 7 in the Prem. Beyond that, however, I'm curious to see how the larger picture has changed over time and where that might be headed. That could be something to keep an eye on.
Yes because they enquire about a player get quoted a ridiculous fee yet still pay it, smaller clubs domestic or abroad whenever they receive a bid instantly reject it ask for double then the negotiations start from there, they also try and hold out for as long as possible so the buying club get desperate.
14:55 this is the facts. They are overspending on every player (mainly because they have to)
Money has destroyed football. It’s taken all the competitive nature out of it and now it’s all down to how rich you are.
Yep totally agree it's made worse and predictable. That why Leicester winning the league was such a big thing to casual fans
@@petesmart1983 mate it was a big thing for every football fan
We should be grateful for Barcelona and Real Madrid
Curious I herd the portugueseliga was going to have a television deal in a few years instead of individual teams doing TV deals. It definitely won't be as big as England but definitely can help the league revenues
I could eventually see leagues lobbying for a reduction in the amount of foreign matches being available through national media in an attempt to reduce the value of media income of foreign clubs or atleast bring more parity to ensure the EPL doesn't continue to run away with their financial dominance.
Something has to change or else we will see multiple international leagues becoming feeder leagues to the EPL to a greater extent than what we already see.
I actually think the Continental league system will merge... Imagine a collection of the best Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch and Portuguese teams in one league. That league could rival the Prem for revenue.
@@micahkiyimba8641 I guess you missed the part where the Super League was created, before massive fan backlash ensured most teams involved withdrew?
Any true fan of football wouldn't want a super League anyway, because it will have an adverse effect on the lower leagues and will eventually lead to the destruction of hundreds of football clubs across Europe, which in turn will render the super League completely pointless and will eventually collapse as well.
The Super League is the worst possible scenario for football, and only non-Europeans want it to happen because they're all idiots who don't actually understand the roots of the sport.
@@micahkiyimba8641 rival?
It will make more than them, considering there are fans from those countries, merging into one will make the prize for 1st be really big
@@micahkiyimba8641 I think this HAS to happen. Big clubs like R Madrid, Barca, Inter, Milan, Juve, Bayern will be desperate and this seems like their only option to keep up the revenue. I personally dont follow any other league than PL but I would definately be interested to see this alternative league.
@@micahkiyimba8641 no that would suck, it would destroy pretty much every single team of these country except for 3 or 4 lucky teams from each country
What you are actually describing is simply the champion's league
God your videos are good. Not just quality, but a rare and in depth voice
Not the clubs, but Sky.
The club's do what the club's do: Spend the money they have. And in some cases even the money they don't have (its amazing how Everton is even able to have financial problems considering the massive amount of TV money ALONE).
What should they do? Hoard it?
Of course they spend it. Prices rise massively when a PL club tried to sign a player. They have to deal with that themselves. That's why they set transfer records everywhere you look with players that are mediocre at best
It's not just sky all TV companys have pretty much ruined football look at la Liga when TV deal came up in 2000-2001 the government negotiated with Barca and real who neither were the best team at the time so they ended up with 95% of the TV and advertising rights
@@petesmart1983 Yeah but in the Premier League particularly the culprit it Sky by throwing out a few billions over a few years.
Alfie, if you see this, pls do a video on Albania's Euro 2016 XI and where are they now?
Football is in the worst state it has ever been. It is impossible for smaller teams to compete with the Premier League and the other footballing giants like PSG, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Unless UEFA or FIFA step in and properly introduce and enforce spending limits and wage limits, football as we know it will die. If nothing changes in the next 10 years, no team outside the top 10 will have a chance at winning any European trophy. Football has always been for the fans, but now it is only the select few who hold any real power. Soon every premier team will be bought up by some oil conglomerate or another industrial giant, until all the talent in world football is concentrated into one league. UEFA and FIFA are a complete and utter joke, they do nothing to stop this because it makes them richer too. Football fans around the world need to come together and ask for change because without the fans, the owners won't make any money and will be forced to change. The issue is that enough fans want it this way, the delusional fans of the premier league and other giant teams don't want to end their eras of dominance, and they are also partly to blame for the sports downfall. Enough said, I think we just need to call for change, it worked for the super league, it can work for this too.
I fully agree, but the problem as you said enough people don’t want change as it would result in their club ending their dominance, the vast majority of football fans support the top teams and I can’t see the glory hunters changing their minds
(Not watched yet so excuse me if mentioned) Main problem is the lack of strict FFP limits and restrictions on PL clubs imo, if these clubs were forced to play in Spain every single club bar 3 would be working under the 1:3 rule, wouldn’t be able to register a large amount of their players (so next time some fans banter a La Liga side for not registering til a few days/weeks remember that) and a great deal of players are non EU (only allowed 3 in Spain and 9 of Liverpool’s first XI are non EU and 20 in squad albeit some would have EU passports). Whether people like it or not, the PL is literally becoming the Super League you all so despise.
PL Clubs are subject to FFP, Everton is under investigation as we speak. They just make a lot more money since the league actually distributes TV rights money fairly unlike La Liga who just funnel money into 3 clubs and leave the rest to die.
@@MaestroBlur Everton are well over 200m over the loss limit which is utterly embarrassing in terms of enforcing rules, what’s strict about that? Shouldn’t be a need for an investigation, as for your other point, pure ignorance.
Premier league is the best league in the world
I've always thought about this. For a long time the Premier League has functioned to hoover up talent from all over the world. The only thing that's English about the league is the fans... well, the local fans in the stadium. Most of the viewers are foreign too, they just pick one of the top 6 to support because the league is the most entertaining because there's so many foreign players which creates a kind of feedback loop. If anything, it's probably in part created interest in countries that didn't have it, but the Premier league is basically like a Super League: cosmopolitan, ruthlessly capitalist, sucking up talent from lesser teams and leagues.
To the average viewer, most teams are completely interchangeable except for the top ones. Samir from Egypt doesn't start to watch the Prem because he's invested in English culture, he wants to see the best player from his country rip up defenses for the team he now supports because, well, Salah plays for them. Which doesn't make this hypothetical person bad, I'm just saying. Obviously the way football functions is kind of like this all over the world, the Prem is just such a gigantic force that it's created kind of a monopoly
I couldn't be bothered to finish the thought my comment started on but I hope people read it more as a critique of people's willing ignorance of the kind of globalistic hypercapitalism of football in this instance rather than me being mad because Chelsea have a French goalkeeper instead of Ben Foster
FFP don't exist in England and they make the loudest noise and yet afraid of the super league so not to get a beating from Spain, Germany Italy, u name it
Guess you didn't watch the video. FFP does exist in England, the revenues are so incredibly massive that every club is rich. Its not the same in those other countries you mention because the big clubs leech all the money off of the smaller clubs by taking TV revenue for themselves. Its not equally distributed. The only way those super clubs can continue to compete for big name players will be if they form a "Super League".
@@jbsmith8848 yes by turning losses into assets, what happen to the 2 billion Chelsea owes Abramovish, yes city, Newcastle. United random pple just come buys the club and debt, then hurray there is no debt
Yes it has. Years ago. Premier League basically is the Super League now and no other league in Europe will ever be able to catch up again.
Great video. i think u should make a video on whether a prem spending cap would actually impact the spending cause i think it’s desperately needed but don’t know what impact would be felt
it's broken because the other leagues have monopolized their leagues meaning lower teams can never compete
Man City have won 4 of the last 5 PL's but ok lol
@@DeathByDominic it still feels like it’s incredibly competitive across the league though, there’s a reason why the bundesliga & ligue 1 are struggling so much and the Serie A isn’t doing too badly
@@JHa4848 No. Like prem literally has yoyo clubs like Norwich and Fulham no other top 5 league reallys has those.
Your comment just is untrue
You think so? Take a look at Bundesliga.
Union and freiburg got top 6
If you look at the Bundesliga for example, you see that there really are only 3 teams that you can be sure about will reach a top 4 finish, same with LaLiga. And the serie a has avery much the same hierarchy as the premier league since this year eg. you don't even have a favourite to win the league. Sure the unfair distribution in those leagues play a part in why they are not so attractive, but the reason for european unbalance mainly lies in the PL itself
Can you do a video on the rise of Yeovil town from the 6th tier to the championship and then the rapid collapse to conference?
Thank you John. Love your videos, even though I never was interested in football.
John? Lol. What is this comment?
@@stonecold6521 wait, have I just doxxed his real name?
If my name is John, it's news not just to everyone else, but also to me! Glad you enjoy the videos though, Craig.
@@HITCSevens You freaked me out a little there Alfie. My name is Craig!!!
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Not to mention that Bundesliga have not been able to sell their rights in the Middle East for the second year, and the same goes for Serie A last year broadcasting for free on CZcams and only via Streaming Service this year. The offers they received for their rights seem to be much less than expected.
Well this exactly what happened to a continental scale during the 1980's. South American leagues were as good as the European, specialyl the Argentinian, Uruguayan, Colombian and Brasilian leagues, but during the 1990's multiple internal and external factors made South American football fall, and ever since it has become just a feeder continent to Europe top 5 leagues.
To me this whole issue just points to one of the problems of neoliberalism which is the extreme concentration of wealth, to the point even among the wealthy clubs there's a growing gap.
Yep in the 70s and 80s only a few really big teams had one south or south Americans but most of the top players played in own countrys. But sadly now most clubs in Argentina for example are in massive debt from Europe teams stealing there youth players or buying there players cheap
I'd say the Brazilian league was still quite competitive up until the early 2000s, after all most players of the Brazil 2002 squad were playing in the Brazilian league.
Alfie, when will you release your documentaries on Turkey's Big Three (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş)? I remember you teased them back in your Süper Lig video.
Coffee and HITC, perfect way to kick off a Saturday!
coming back from the bar acouple deep and in bed now. no better way to end the night
@@maxoldendorff3264 classssss mate! Enjoy that sleep 🤟
As I see it, there is hardly any competence in the Prem, unless it has been bought in. No good English manager/coach on the horizon, English players are peaking at 22, have a market value of 100 million at 20 without having done anything, and by the time they are 26 no one is talking about them. English relegated clubs have 200 million more in their budget than CL aspirants, Bournemouth can pay three times the wages of Borussia Dortmund, and they do. Even if Man City win the CL, who is going to give them credit?
Eddie howe is a good coach still young too.
One thing I've thought of recently. Did Champions League expansion in the 90s break domestic football. I feel it did. Wonder what your thoughts are.
I think the transfer market and by extension the wage structure of the English leagues would truly destroy the rest of football if/when the championship (i.e just a chance to enter the prem) starts offering the same bloated fee's as the prem. Basically turning the whole of football outside England into a massive feeder club. Then it will become a moral quandary for the fan do you want to carry on supporting that structure?
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Hey Alfie, could you do a vid on FC Dinamo Bucharest? As 18-time Romanian champions, 13-time Romanian cup winners, and 1st time champions league semi-finalists among Romanian clubs, Dinamo is Romania's 2nd most successful club side, and yet they are suffering an unprecedented plight. They have just suffered the first relegation of their 74-year history. Was wondering if you could take a look into what on earth is going on at Dinamo (with or without the WOEIGO title)
Im guessing is a that has got to do with communism like other Bucharest's teams Ceausescu moreless ordered players to join steaua
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Pretty sure they've done a video on it before
There are lots of videos about that already. It was well-documented.
And now in 2022 Renan Lodi, a La Liga champions playing for Atletico, now moving to Nottingham which is a promotion club in Premier League 😅
Yep and still there’s trouble to sign axel fucking witsel who arrived for free, the system is broken
Can you make a video on the financial situation in the SPFL?
That's the cheerful conclusion my Saturday morning was asking for. 😄
Day 1: Since it is close to the day, the 7 best transfer deadline day businesses of Prem era
When you consider Ajax have a similar budget to top end Championship sides and have such huge success it a wonder why teams like West Brom or Norwich don't copy their model.
The branding and all that started this but also the current light rules by the FA on owners and ffp compared to for example bundesliga will even more widen the gap. Plus most(half) of La Liga clubs is owned by its members and dont have near the finacial power like a man city or newcastle. But barca and real can still compete bc of the extrem revenue they make
In the future I could see several league mergers such as:
Beneliga.
Alpine (Austrian & Swiss).
Iberian.
Nordic (Scottish, Scandinavian & Baltic).
As an avid La Liga viewer I think any bottom three La Liga team would finish mid table in the Prem. The PL has better players but La Liga has better football.
I guess same goes with BL
Did I really heard that a team from bottom half will finish mid table in other leagues like la liga etc. if I recall it was your well placed 2 teams in Europa and conference league which lost to teams outside of best teams from other leagues. So what’s your basis of saying that other than the amount they are spending.
Seem to remember Real Madrid and Barca paying crazy fees over the last 20 years. The Italian teams did in the 80’s and 90’s as well.
Came to say exactly this. It all works in cycles and it happens to be the Premier League's time right now.
Not sure if you've watched the whole video, but both of these points are addressed in it!
@@HITCSevens I was watching while posting. My comment was more aimed at others in the comments.
Tbh I think the neymar original transfer broke the transfer market and being that thw premier league is the richest league has basically just matched up with the current inflation so the prem isn't at fault for the transfer market getting loopy but they are the only league that has the funds to keep up with the inflation
They bought good players and not some kids who are overhyped by english media
This process has been going on in Scotland for a long time, it's just now showing across Europe instead.
Though the dominance of Rangers and Celtic (self-assured by their own decisions to drain the talent from any other club in the league) was the primary contributor. Still, it's always been especially bad for us because it's so easy for Scots to go and play in the English leagues.
Nice work as always Alfie. I agree in every point u made on why The Premier League is the most interesting/riches league.I have one thing to add, if I may.
In this information age, internet and social media, I think the simple fact, that english is the language, spoken, makes its easier for english clubs in terms of PR and interaction with potentianally new fans (customers). And money is king.
That's a really good point. It's no coincidence that la liga is more popular in South America.
I've deeped this too. It's crazy money they're paying for average players
Stupid transfer fees have been around forever.
In the late 50s/early 60s AC Milan, Liverpool and Tottenham tried to sign John Atyeo from Bristol City for a fee that would have been equivalent to £30m 15 years ago- today's money that would easily be close to £50m, put in the inflation of transfer fees too and it just keeps going up.
Bear in mind Bristol City were a 3rd tier side at the time, and the player was himself a part timer, who was also a maths teacher.
He's actually a player a video would be worth making about. 5 goals in 6 games for England,
He was never booked or sent off in over 600 games and only Dixie Dean and George Camsell have scored more goals at one club.
Yes, but thats not what we talking about, its about the 16th or 17th in PL earn and spends more than the 5th or 6th in others leagues, that never happened and its very concernig
@@RoyMatzem and you're missing the point.
You can't break what was never fixed.
Camsell is better
@@glennb6020 no one cares
@@jamespicksley5781 George does
Hey Alfie, can you do a video of the best women's XI of all time?
Simplest explanation:
Grealishinho: 30 million
Jack Grealish : 100 million
In fairness, £100milion was his release clause NOT his actual transfer value. But yeah, English players are WAY overpriced in general.
@@bricktop. values is subjective, something is only only of values if someone decides to pay it, it is mind boggling but if Man City are stupid enough to pay £100m then grealish is worth that
Unsustainable is the word that comes to mind , one day it's going to become so ridiculous that it Implodes initself . I think the championship is the biggest problem
Why is the championship the biggest problem? Honest question
@@gofannon1943 the money spent to get the prem dream it's crazy
As a non British I actually admire the Premier League fairer distribution of tv rights money. Even if the big monster teams run away with the title in the end, it's no different to most European leagues atm.
And honestly the Premier League may be the only league where you can watch a game between the 17th and 18th ranked teams every week and it be more enjoyable that the big teams matches consistently.
In Italy and Spain tv rights distribution is so bad even team that do well in Europe like Sevilla and Atalanta eventually fade rather than build on their success, since all the big teams take their players away, many times just keeping them as benchwarmers.
The premier league pretty much has every Brazilian Midfielder playing in it
Even joao alavares
Yea thought not!!!
Except for Gerson and Claudinho
@@andarilho_31 and Gary
VIDEO IDEA: Players with most games sitting on the bench (and not coming on)
Basically when premiership started wages and transfer market jumped by a big load and it destroyed all the otherr levels of English football. Football is just a big buissness now it has nothing to do with the fans or anything else just money. La Liga killed there own league in early 2000s, and Italy killed there league in the 90s. Football is terrible these days and only the rich succeed and lower leagues get f**led over, other countries used to have good teams like Romania,Holland, Portugal, Serbia even south American football was strong but now money age has destroyed all these leagues.
Clearly, no single cause is breaking the market. But that PL TV deal is creating a crazy feedback loop that's making some players and investors very rich. But nothing lasts forever, and neither will this.
No league will surpass the EPL for another 20 years. You can laugh at me, but I think MLS is the only league that can challenge the EPL in 2 decades.
Soccer is growing immensely in the US. The US also happens to be the soft cultural power of the world and obviously, is also English speaking. There's also the US dollar.
I don't see any European challenger to the Premier League. Whoever challenges the EPL, will be a non-European entity.
MLS looks like an obvious candidate if you frame it that way.
More big T.V companies need to start buying other leagues T.V rights at a similar level to the EPL deals or this will only get worse. ESPN and DAZN buying La Liga and Serie A would level things out but i cannot see that happening.
Lmao why would companies buy these hefty rights when they don't get turnover??
Pl is most watched league in whole Asia ,Africa that's why it has got most tv revenue
@@iameverywhere8551 Your comment shows a lack of intelligence.
What do you mean by turnover'?
If you mean they dont make much money compared to the EPL then we should ask ourselves why that is and IF that could change and if so, would this possibly be a good business opportunity for a large T.V company?
T.V rights are a huge part of the financial differences and this has the knock on affect of a lower quality of player throughout the other big 5 leagues. This in turn lowers attendances.
By increasing the revenue we increase quality and therefore increase attendance.
Is the fact the EPL is the most watched league a eternal fact? Can their dominance be challenged? .....Could this make the challenger a lot of money?
The EPL hasnt always been the most viewed league. At one point it was LaLiga and before that it was Serie A.
Money talks in football and if another league had more money than the EPL the fortunes would soon change, such is the nature of the beast.
@@acehighjohn1759 la liga was most watched league when football wasn't as popular as it is now!!!
And then during 2008-2018 probably becoz of Ronaldo,messi, neymar (literally every good player) was playing in this league but still pl gets so much revenue from other countries!!!
Even 17 th placed pl team gets more broadcasting money then serie -a winner or Bundesliga
@@iameverywhere8551 Yeah so you've established that big players (Neymar etc) bring more viewers and more money (17th placed team in EPL's financial state) brings better players. Thats exactly what i said. Thanks. Glad you agree.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 373)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Hey my name is Alfie, please stop.
For me Personally the EPL isn't doing much different to other Corparations which is what it is. Pricing out the competiotion marketing the hell out of itself and maintaining just enough internal competativeness to promote the idea of an exciting league.
Lets be real United won 13 out of 21 titles and never finished below 2nd until Chelsea in 05. Man City now are basically what United were. The Prem is rarely exciting by season end unless you are a fan of certain clubs. The prem alone isn't responsible for high transfer values it's just more able to meet high tranfer values because of how they branded and marketed themselves
I think as Man City continue accumulating Prem titles, the narrative of competition will go away eventually. I think Prem is on top because they have the most oil money clubs
Two seasons ago the premier league had 4 different winners in 5 years. Tell me the last time Spain, Germany, Italy or France had the same. In Germany and France the same team has won the League ten times in a row
@@GuinessOriginal France has had 3 teams win the league in that time, Italy have had 3 different winners in the last 3 seasons and Spain have had 3 lets not pretend like its been mad competative apart from Leicester the other teams were either favourites or had won the league within the previous 3 seasons. Narratives are important though I guess
@@GuinessOriginal France isn't quite accurate. In the last 10 years, Lille and Monaco have won a title each, and if you go back 1 year further you'll have Montpellier winning the league. Of course, PSG have won the other 8, so it is still practically dominance, but they've never won more than 4 in a row, let alone 10.
@@metalswifty23adding to that, france did have the famous 6 winners in 6 seasons at one point. but before that it was all lyon, and after that its all been psg.
7:09 Top row, second visible face from the left:
Didn't realize Nadal played for Real Madrid. 😃
absolutely, as a rangers fan its annoying knowing we can never compete financially even though we are way more historical and bigger than most prem teams
You're a big fish in a small pond not bigger historically. If Rangers were a prem team they'd have mediocre history and trophies
@@AlexOjideagu2 We've won a european trophy, one of the most successful clubs of all time, founding member of the champions league, have some amazing european results over the years, one of the best traditional grounds in world football and have had some amazing players. If you think Rangers aren't historically bigger than every prem team outside of the big 6 + Villa and forest then you're delusional. Scottish Football hasn't always been this bad.
@@MitchellHD02 Liverpool have only won 1 Prem title in 30 years. A bigger richer European force with all that TV money still struggled in the prem. Newcastle have a huge local fanbase like Rangers and won nothing. You and Celtic are deluded thinking you'd automatically be successful. You'd be lucky to win 1 league between you in 30 years
@@MitchellHD02 Rangers have had what amazing results in Europe? Leicester got further than you in the champions League. Spurs got to the final and have 3 major European trophies and bigger European history.
@@AlexOjideagu2 where did i say we'd be even remotely successful in the prem? You've pulled that out ur arse mate. Semi final of the European Cup, Beat Bayern Munich, beat leeds in the 90s, won the cup winners cup against Dinamo. Been to 4 European finals. Beat a great parma side in 1999. In the inaugural year of the UCL we only lost out on getting to the final due to Marseille who were later charged for match fixing. I DO NOT think we are better now than the premier league times but historically we are much bigger, anyone who knows anything about football will attest to that
Sadly indeed,the Premier League has broken the transfer market and gone the true meaning of the English football but I am glad that I have boycotted myself from watching the league from this season onwards and for sure ever in my life,good friends!!!I have been watching Argentine Primera Division and other respective lower leagues of Argentina and Scottish Premiership and other respective lower leagues of Scotland,good friends!!!🙏
That's dedication
People claim it is TV money.. but a look at the numbers suggest everything changed in 2003 when Abramovich came in
@@dylangoddard7449 You are extremely so right and I have been watching mainly Argentine Primera Division and the respective lower leagues of Argentina and Scottish Premiership and the respective lower leagues of Scotland and must ever in this world and other planets,good friend!!!:-D
@@micahkiyimba8641 You have answered from my mind as when Roman Abramovich sir came in,everything changed extremely so wrongly slowly and those people are deluded overall,good friend!!!
more people need to see this!!!!!!
Of course good friend Peter Rabbit,but never ever for the deluded ones!!!🙏