2014 - 2015 Football Thread - Page 269

On October 09 2014 02:43 Liquid`Drone wrote:


ya, but it's unique to this season. Chelsea looks like the strongest any PL team has been for years, and the competition looks a bit weaker than it has been for years. I think even next season it will look more open.

and I still think PL is more open than the bundesliga. Basically what Chelsea has is that they look like they're never gonna lose - but they don't look like they're going to win every game. Some games they will be content with a draw. The past two seasons, bayern won 29 out of 34 games.

On October 09 2014 06:16 zulu_nation8 wrote:
PL is way more open than Bundesliga, I don't remember the last time a PL team won the title when they were leading after 10 games, the second half of the season is always full of drama.

On October 09 2014 08:32 SKC wrote:
Bayern has been the Bundesliga team for as long as I can remember. I can't think of another league with only one team head and shoulders ahead of everyone else. Inter/Milan/Juventus, Barcelona/RM, etc. It's not something new to german football. Quick google search says they have 23 titles against like 5 from the second place.

On October 09 2014 11:24 MaZza[KIS] wrote:


And when those "slim" seasons happen Bayern just buys out all the good players from the 2nd and 3rd place getters and runs away again.

You see this in so many leagues. Like in Spain I'd say Ateltico, Sevilla, Valencia and Sociedad (to a lesser extent than the other 3) will produce some wunderkinds/ nurture and produce great existing talent, win and/or come close second/third every 3 year cycle. Then they just sell (almost) their entire squad and return to middle of the table. I feel sorry for these "not super rich" clubs.

John oliver hit the nail on the head for me a little bit when he was trying to (albeit with a fair amount of sarcasm) explain footbal to another person (can't remember the other person but he was american... I think it might have been Letterman)

The exchange was something like:
"So in football how many teams win the competition"
Jon Oliver: "See I don't know how to explain football to an American, because if I tell you that only 3-4 teams have a realistic chance of EVER winning the league you'd ask me 'then what's the point of the other teams playing?' and I can't answer that question"

Honestly I think football needs some kind of drafting system, because the imbalance is so bad these days lower teams are content with just "scraping by".FFP doesn't work. People just bend the rules with "sponsorship deals" and then pay off some UEFA execs when brought into question. It's so hard to be an Englishman and be born outside London, Liverpool or Manchester. If you're born anywhere else it's pretty much guaranteed you're following a team with very little hope of winning anything in your lifetime. A quick quote from wiki to prove my point: "Of the 46 clubs to have competed since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, five have won the title: Manchester United (13), Arsenal (3), Chelsea (3), Manchester City (2) and Blackburn Rovers (1). The current champions are Manchester City, who won the title in 2013–14." That's over 20 years.. If you look at the top 4 year-in year-out it gets even worse!!!!!!!!!!!! Simply put, what's the point of goign for a team that's outside the "top 4 clubs" (arguably 5 now)? (unless you're just a devotee and don't care about win/lose)

On October 09 2014 14:13 Stratos_speAr wrote:


Spain, Italy, and Germany are in the same boat, with, at most, 6 different winners in that period.

But don't bring that up, because the competition is totally fine right now and everyone only wants to see the big teams win and "dynasties" and "story lines" to be made...