2013-2014 Champions League & Europa League Thread - Page 64

On November 28 2013 07:09 TheDWorm wrote:

But also takes away much potential (in regard of developing teams - replacing players) for the rest.
Take the BL matches - they are boring why should someone offer the same (or almost the same) money for BL as for EPL where the top matches are not so onesided as in Germany (fe. see the matches in the last years from schalke, leverkusen against Bayern). And lets be honest noone (excluding the team fans) wants to see onesided matches.

Edit: that sounds like im blaming bayern for being to good but what i mean is that the BL needs to secure ways for other teams to develop to the top level without making bayern worst cuz at mom its too hard (if not impossible) for any team to keep a positive trend over some years going.

On November 28 2013 07:38 Twisted wrote:
If most goals = most entertaining, then the Scottish league is the most entertaining league in the world with their standard 6-6 scorelines ;o

On November 28 2013 08:07 Copymizer wrote:
Don't forget that BL has the highest average fan attendance in the european leagues

On November 28 2013 16:53 Stratos_speAr wrote:


Interestingly enough, if you take out Bayern, then the BL is by far the most competitive league, both in terms of team performance and competitive regulations. That said, that's not the case, so you have to take Bayern into account.

The problem is that Bayern steadily built up their financial clout while the BL was still a secondary league. This meant that, like we see in basically every country with a not top-tier league, only one (maybe two) teams reaped the financial benefits. Because of this, the gap between Bayern and the rest continued to grow, and now we have a situation where Bayern has won 22 titles (the next highest being 5 by BVB and BMG) and there's no end in sight. Like I said, the BL probably has some of the best competitive regulations in Europe, but, like all European football, their still incredibly lax (compared to an American PoV).

Contrast that with England, where they were the major economic and cultural superpower on the continent for a very long time. This let a number of clubs become strong and develop as financial powerhouses, which has led to the situation we have now.

For the BL to become a really good league with a number of internationally competitive teams like England, rules would need to be implemented to somehow tear down some of Bayern's financial dominance and somehow lift other clubs to near that level. Until then, Bayern will continue to spend over double what BVB does and probably over 15 times what Eintracht Braunschweig does, and we won't see competition.

As a side note, even with Bayern's dominance, the Bundesliga has still had more different champions (5) since 2000 than the BPL (4), Serie A (4), and La Liga (3).



The PL's advantage is money. England's advantage always has been money, and that (and language) is their advantage. I find German fans to be much more passionate and fun, and German games to be far more entertaining (not including Bayern games). But when England was the original powerhouse football league, that leads to it being the financial juggernaut among football leagues in Europe, and that leads to better teams and more competition.