Subscriber Mel81x+ Posted September 11, 2019 Subscriber Posted September 11, 2019 UEFA can't and shouldn't make things easier for any clubs as part of some monetary compensation that would be proper disgusting and totally unnecessary. So what if the top 5 have more money, the tournament doesn't need to cater to them just because of that fact. Infact, if they want to make it more fair I'd reduce the slots for each league in both the CL and the EL and make it three instead of four to increase competitiveness. Right now, if you're sitting in 4th in the PL as a club you're thinking ah its okay when the season ends because we're still getting a chance at the CL. Reducing the number of slots also solves the problem of giving other leagues a fair chance but we all know they'll never do that because UEFA doesn't run CL football anymore the TV companies do.
SirBalon Posted September 11, 2019 Posted September 11, 2019 The huge clubs have done intense individual work over the past decade or so in amplifying and nurturing their brandname. Just take Atlético Madrid for example... Only 10 years ago (maybe a little bit longer) before Diego Simeone returned to the club as a coach (Simeone as a timeline indentifier, not him as the main reason) they were in absolute dire straits financially. They owed money to everyone and everything because they had gone about trying to be competitive in the wrong way for many years by just signing big names and doing very little else. They then started to copy the model used by the two giants that live in their own region with Barcelona and Real Madrid by doing seemingly costly things like opening academies all over the place from Africa, to India, to Japan and even Pakistan. I've heard they even have academies in far flung places like Tibet and Nepal. They promoted themselves by investing in the brand and coupled with other general factors they now reap the benefits with total stability and seeming hard competitiveness on all fronts. I've used them as an example because many clubs still think it's only about signing big football status symbols to represent the club on the pitch while in reality that is only a finalising detail that continues the momentum already set by the marketing department on the actual brandname. By only using the recruitment of top footballing talent, the club inevitably ends up in debt in the end and cannot sustain competitiveness in relation to the giants that live within their league. Look at what's happened to Valencia CF in Spain. Mega billionaire personality buys the club, pumps money in like what used to happen over a decade ago to sign big players but nothing is sustainable and without consistent results and the investment of the brand, the hole gets bigger ir remains unfixed. UEFA needs the big brandname football clubs because it adds prestige and appeal to their prime competition which is the Champions League.
Subscriber Mel81x+ Posted September 11, 2019 Subscriber Posted September 11, 2019 27 minutes ago, SirBalon said: The huge clubs have done intense individual work over the past decade or so in amplifying and nurturing their brandname. Just take Atlético Madrid for example... Only 10 years ago (maybe a little bit longer) before Diego Simeone returned to the club as a coach (Simeone as a timeline indentifier, not him as the main reason) they were in absolute dire straits financially. They owed money to everyone and everything because they had gone about trying to be competitive in the wrong way for many years by just signing big names and doing very little else. They then started to copy the model used by the two giants that live in their own region with Barcelona and Real Madrid by doing seemingly costly things like opening academies all over the place from Africa, to India, to Japan and even Pakistan. I've heard they even have academies in far flung places like Tibet and Nepal. They promoted themselves by investing in the brand and coupled with other general factors they now reap the benefits with total stability and seeming hard competitiveness on all fronts. I've used them as an example because many clubs still think it's only about signing big football status symbols to represent the club on the pitch while in reality that is only a finalising detail that continues the momentum already set by the marketing department on the actual brandname. By only using the recruitment of top footballing talent, the club inevitably ends up in debt in the end and cannot sustain competitiveness in relation to the giants that live within their league. Look at what's happened to Valencia CF in Spain. Mega billionaire personality buys the club, pumps money in like what used to happen over a decade ago to sign big players but nothing is sustainable and without consistent results and the investment of the brand, the hole gets bigger ir remains unfixed. UEFA needs the big brandname football clubs because it adds prestige and appeal to their prime competition which is the Champions League. This is the argument that can also be used for how City have come to dominance in the way they have. Its not just about Abu Dhabi pouring money in its also about how that money has been invested and the work done before trying to make the big signings as well. Granted its a shit way to go about unbalancing competitive fairness but these are more akin to businesses than football clubs these days and there isn't a single one of them that is exempt from this fact.
Carnivore Chris Posted September 23, 2019 Posted September 23, 2019 I'd say it was more a case of the Premier league taking over everything. I have predicted this for 6/7 years and it's actually happening now. All other leagues have become watered down and have lost prestige like fuck. Is it really an achievement when Juventus win Serie A? when Bayern win the Bundesliga or when PSG win Ligue 1? These teams are winning their league simply by turning up. La Liga is also completely losing all its quality at a rapid rate, especially when it comes to attacking quality. There is nothing there anymore and it gets worse. The league as a whole is becoming very defensive, it's starting to lack stars and even some of the better sides in the league like Atletico and Sevilla are devoid of attacking ability. That is the biggest worry in football and not about 5 leagues being ahead of the rest, as 3 of those leagues are massively watered down shite and one of the others is heading in that direction.
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