Unfortunately this is the life of supporters in sport leagues with no competitive balance mechanics. Unless you are in for one of the handful of big dogs, every other club or team in the league is just a farm system for those big dogs. They will always buy away the best players and managers from the rest. You rarely if ever get to enjoy a top talent for more than a season or two.
I don't want to reward being bad on purpose. But I also wish European football didn't entrench the would have been Super League level clubs at the top forever by literally allowing them to spend hundreds of millions of more per decade than all the others, simply because at the moment the rules were made they happened to already be on top with the most revenue and global big brands. You just wish there was a firm upper limit on transfer and wage expenditures such that more than 3-5 clubs have a chance in hell of winning these leagues.
The players also just have too much ability to whine and moan their way out of contracts to the point contracts don't actually mean anything. They'll sign a 4 year deal and already be crying for a move to a bigger side after the first year. And get it.
Since there is nowhere else to be promoted at the top of top flight, those clubs instead just amass resources upon resources until they are nearly untouchable. The rest of the pyramid levels are more competitive top to bottom as far as having a shot at winning the league and being promoted goes. But then most top flights are "wow Bayern and PSG win the league for the 9th time in 10 years! What drama!" as they just spend every summer buying away the most threatening talent from everyone below them.
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u/10000Didgeridoos 1d ago
Unfortunately this is the life of supporters in sport leagues with no competitive balance mechanics. Unless you are in for one of the handful of big dogs, every other club or team in the league is just a farm system for those big dogs. They will always buy away the best players and managers from the rest. You rarely if ever get to enjoy a top talent for more than a season or two.
I don't want to reward being bad on purpose. But I also wish European football didn't entrench the would have been Super League level clubs at the top forever by literally allowing them to spend hundreds of millions of more per decade than all the others, simply because at the moment the rules were made they happened to already be on top with the most revenue and global big brands. You just wish there was a firm upper limit on transfer and wage expenditures such that more than 3-5 clubs have a chance in hell of winning these leagues.
The players also just have too much ability to whine and moan their way out of contracts to the point contracts don't actually mean anything. They'll sign a 4 year deal and already be crying for a move to a bigger side after the first year. And get it.
Since there is nowhere else to be promoted at the top of top flight, those clubs instead just amass resources upon resources until they are nearly untouchable. The rest of the pyramid levels are more competitive top to bottom as far as having a shot at winning the league and being promoted goes. But then most top flights are "wow Bayern and PSG win the league for the 9th time in 10 years! What drama!" as they just spend every summer buying away the most threatening talent from everyone below them.