Depends on whether the applied any budget rules. The existing gaps would remain the same as a figure but as a % would have been much reduced.
if they have an £100 budget and we have a £30m budget the gap is £70m and we have only 30% of their budget available.
If we both get an addition yearly 400m then they have 500m and we have 430m - we would have 86% of their budget.
teams like City or PSG could conceivably throw in an extra half a billion and you’d be back to square one but versus the likes of Madrid, for example, the playing field would be more level....not less.
For me, it is more about what the ‘12’ would do next - which I think you we’re also alluding to. Once they moved, they would not be happy with their lot and would have positioned themselves to take in a large proportion of TV money, creating more wealth for themselves rather than their respective leagues. Football would have been unrecognisable within a decade.....which is a lot longer than it took VAR tbh be honest but that’s another subject
I agree they would inevitably go for the next big thing which would be to try supplant the ffifa world club thinkg. an end of season tournament as a cup would be ideal for them.
The thing about football is its not like NFL. you need 45 players for nfl and most teams just dont and cant anyway. With baseball the NY yankees spent the most but BAHSTAN RED SAAAAX could compete as it coudl spend enough and really you only need so many players as long as youve enough pitchers.
Football is that way. The beauty of the CL compared to the prem is LFC need 11-14 players. If all are fit that 11 can beat any other 11 over 180mins especially with a tight ground full of noisy fans. PSG or real or whoever could spend 400billion assembling the greatest everything and still lose.
You just needed that bit of luck with the draw to get you close enough to the finals before you met a big club.
THE ESL assured you of ebing an also ran in the groups having to compete with greater resources and so if you got 4th or 5th in the thing and crawled through the knockouts would no dbout seed you to have the toughest route.
week in week out LFC cannot constently compete with city and cheslea now. given us all more moeny but having to play them even more means we continue to not be able to compete on a wider scale.
People have not really looked over the scale of the oil money doping IMO
When laid bare these 14 asshole clubs who think now they are great don't seem to get whats happened over the past 17 years.
If you account for cheslea's lunacy at the top that allowed man utd get back in for a little while and acocunt for the long learning time and too hands off an approach with pelligrini at city then that do you find
Utd won 3 title in a row after mourinh owas sacked and the lunatic at cheslea appoints ****e managers. the minute he got in anchelotti they won the title.
Utd won another 2 after cheslea again sacked the guy and as city were finding their feet.
Leiceste rwin one cos city fall apart and so do all other clubs.
This is not so bad i guess.
7 out of last 10 leagues have gone to them. Who on earth is going to compete for the next 3 or 4 seasons? man utd? (plaese don't say us)
7 of the last 8 league cups (am inlcuding sundays as city are red hot favourties due to levy's moronic decisions) are between the two with man utd being the othe rother.
the fa cup is a tiny bit better.
Now I am not saying that these have not been utterly dominated by Utd and arsenal before that, don't get me wrong but there was a point that utd built what they had openely through building the stadium and exploiting the money their fans were willing to give so you had to say fair enugh.
What I find hilarious is that not one of the 14 other clubs have a hope in hell of doing anything long term. I hope leicester beat cheslea in the fa cup final but its going to be the topping of thier period where they got a lucky title and took it and its going to fade away.
to the 14 it seems a billioniare's play thing was the dream but half them at least are owned by billionaires and nothing has changed. I now beleive these folk dont see the difference between a club like utd exploiting their size and an oil state publicity stunt. To them they are just whipping boys irrespective i suppose.
IMo the best thing that could happen for football is not 14 clubs getting uppity and trying to take over the commerical running of the premier legaue but that a global salary cap system is enforced.
if all clubs could turn up and compete and titles were shared out purely by what you can build it'd be interesting to see if any of the 14 actually had the ambition to win.
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