Are Big Clubs Too Big? 

Football won’t get boring. As long as Arsenal remain unpredictable, it’ll always be depressing.

Are big clubs too big? Athletic Interest : Yesn't

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This is starting to happen in Sweden aswell. Malmö FF recently won their 21st medal, whilst the second best team with 18 medals won last in 2007 and before that during the 90s. Malmö FF is winning almost every year now and some experts are beginning to call them the Swedish Juventus.

It’s just like Formula One. We all know that Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes are going to win but we still watch the sport and hope for an underdog story like Gasly

The EPL is not a UK wide league as shown on the maps.

The partnership with The Athletic is perfect for this content. Looking forward to more in depth videos like this.

Who else came back here after the super league announcement?

I like when they said unpredictability it showed a clip of Lester city

fascinating video, the quality and editing is very polished as well

As a fan of Serie A and NBA i always try to imagine a structure like nba in european football, but drafts are impossibile to accomplish with these many teams and different leagues

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I'm not a traditionalist but I hope in the future competitive balance as well as a more even distribution of wealth in the football pyramid can return to football to make the game 'beautiful' again. Because in matches where you're a neutral, there's nothing worse than watching one-sided contests with predictable outcomes.

I like to watch 4th division games here in Germany, in this division every team can win. Also the teams are more regional and the atmosphere in the stadium is still really good.

Woah Sheffield Hallam University! Fancy seeing the university that I live a 10 min walk away from featuring in this random football video

Definitely in favor of playoffs, I mean I can count on one hand how many premier league titles have been won on the last day of the season, most years, the winner is clear by February/March and we're just going through the motions. Top 4 race actually ends up being more exciting than the title race itself, if they threw in a playoffs system, we'd definitely get more enjoyment out of the end of the season. My recommendation is cut the league to 16 teams and then send more money down to the Championship, end the season a month early and have the top 8 fight for the title in a playoffs system. Whoever makes it into the semi final qualifies for the CL and then you can have another 2 games between the eliminated Quarter finalists to determine who qualifies for the Europa league. It's just way more fun that way. Do something similar at the bottom for who gets to stay in the league.

Leceister's 2016 title win has to be one of the best underdog stories of recent times. They are what I call a underdog team with bite (good enough to shock a big name team if they are complacent)

"Spotting the issue has never been a problem for UEFA. Doing something about it... Well, let us not be unkind..." Best example of "passive-aggressive" I've seen in a while. Amazing channel (also for many other reasons)!

How can you include spurs and arsenal without including ATM in Spain, Inter in Italy or Dortmund in Germany. The English hype is killing your thoughts. If spurs can win it then so can betis, sevilla, atalanta, liebzig

Great, you thought of everything and summed it up very well considering how complicated the world of football is. Respect and thank you :)

The type of content u make is absolute high quality. Youll become famous in no time. Keep up the amazing work🙌🏽

The problem is the concentration of talents in the established teams in the top 5 leagues. The thing that might change is doing what the NBA is doing having a cap space because big teams are just buying everyone.

Great content as always❤️

Great video, but I must say that the problem of polarisation is more of a prescriptive one than a descriptive one. It is common knowledge that polarisation exists, but we are yet to truly witness it's consequences. Dealing with the problems of polarisation in a presentist approach, by function, will render any further discourse on this matter useless. By simply reforming the format to a more competitive one fails to address the issue of the problems with polarisation since in a competitive format, the bigger clubs are much more certain to perform better than the smaller clubs. Such a reform brings forth unpredictability, not competition. Thus, the question which needs to be addressed first and foremost is that is polarisation of football clubs a sustainable model for the sport. With such growing inequality, the participation from the fans lessens for various reasons, such as the increase in cost of attending or watching a match of football to account for the greater operating costs for operating at a great level of expenditure. The current pandemic serves as evidence to the fact that such polarisation is fiscally irresponsible for both the fans and the clubs.

Athletic interest and tifo football videos give me so much joy Keep it up

Hi, great video although one mistake. There were actually 16 teams who the cup from 1980-99, you forgot to add Nottingham Forest

Great video, top notch edit, lot of insights. This channel deserves more... but ofcourse only if they post frequently!

That editing is so amazing! Love it

As a fan of Panathinaikos, the answer is A RESOUNDING YES. From competing in the UCL quarter finals every 10 years and being known here as "ambassador" of Greece in Europe, we ended up being the 4th best team in Greece. We played in the qualifiers against teams like Atletico, Bilbao and Malaga, got knocked out all the time, and now we dont even play in Europe. We! Who reached the 71 European Cup managing the best comeback after 4-1 in Belgrade, we beat Crvena Zvezda 3-0 in Athens. When we knocked out Alan Ball's Everton the same year. Who beat UEFA cup holder Goteborg, as well as Gullit and Rep's Feyenoord in 1985 reaching the Semifinals... Who reached the 96 Semifinals having beat the best team in the world, Ajax. And many champions, like Legia who eliminated Blackburn. Like Nantes (3-1) who also reached the semifinals. Like Porto. And in the worst terrains too. Literal shit in Poland. Snow in Bretagne. Who qualified in the Group Stage 3 years in a row in 2000-2003. Humiliating Juventus in Athens. Beating Barcelona, Arsenal, Schalke, Hamburg, Porto in 2001, Cech's Sparta Praha, Eto'o's Mallorca, Anderlecht, and almost eliminated Mourinho's Porto in 2003 as well as Barcelona in Camp Nou in 2003. Qualified 2 times in a row to the quarterfinals. Who beat Mourinho's Inter in Giuseppe Meazza by 1-0 and thrashed Ozil and Diego's Werder by 3-0 in Bremen no less. We also qualified in 2009 too...Mourinho went and shook everybody's hand. Who beat and eliminated Roma in the Round of 32 in 2009-10. With a wonderful Cisse and Ninis partnership. With Gilberto Silva,Karagounis,Katsouranis,Leto, Salpingidis, etc. We were also the spine of our national teams in 2004 and 2012. And now UEFA wants to bury all these moments. Talk about the farce that is FFP too. How Man City and PSG can do whatever the fuck they want while we get punished.

Athletic Interest: Are the big clubs too big? This season: I don't think so

You are really producing quality content! I enjoy every single video from you.

Excellent content on a subject that really should be talked about more, especially with the rumours of the European super league and the big clubs such as Barcelona going through Financial times right now

Again, really great video, meaningful and unbiased. I think you should've touched F1, which suffer the most about it (Mercedes dominating 7 years straight) and then you have teams like HAAS and Williams struggling. Also about the impact the new 2022 might impact the championship, who will it benefit.

11 minutes of high quality content. I wish your efforts take you to where you deserve to be. 💙

This is a very interesting and qualitative video thanks a lot!

Great video as always!

In light of the developments from the past couple of days... Yes, yes they are

I have got to disagree with you guys eventhough I really like your content. But I feel that the atmosphere regarding financial equality has changed across all generations. Most of my friends (aged in their early 20s) are bored by the big clubs like Bayern here in Germany or Juve in Italy, Paris in France and so on.. If you inherit a passion for a club from your father or grandfather you can't be happy with the current situations. Also a club like Leipzig isn't an underdog, they represent the capitalistic turn around in football more than any other team in Europe, because the didn't even exist 15 years ago. The big clubs in England are still keeping up in their own leagues, because they don't even own themselves anymore, but because there are huge investors from Asia and America pumping loads of money in the clubs to keep them competitive... And tbh, every football fan should be sad to see, that you can only celebrate with a team once a year (if you're lucky). Sure Leicester was great, Ajax was a nailbiter and the giants tremble sometimes in their domestic leagues. But - I hope I'm wrong - we will never see a new CL winner out of European top 5, we will never see something like Leicester in the EU top 5 in the next 20 years, and we have to pray that dominators like Bayern, Paris or Juventus don't only have one unlucky season and start to collect a new series after an underdogs league win, but that there's real competition again..

Great video, great subject, great excecution!

A fantastic video. 10/10 Great job!

Came back here after the superleague announcement

Great analysis - I do think the gulf (pun intended) between some of the largest clubs and those towards the bottom is too large. Consider Man City or PSG - did they earn their place or was it bought? As a Portsmouth fan, I am acutely aware of the fragility of football teams. My cousin said last year that he wouldn't want Pompey back in the Premier League as it's not as interesting as leagues where the club does have the potential to win the title.

Can you please do a video on the brand new international swimming league (ISL). Its very fun to watch and the conpetitive format is also very good. Love your videos. Keep up the good work

Another great delivery! Can we please discuss buyout clauses especially those from Big Teams like Barcelona?

nice videos on this channel!!

That's exactly what I like, relevant other side we've any one has money can create a team and join the league without any quality & qualifications.

Very educateive.......and nice graphics

Great channel! This is a bit off-topic, but would you be able to make a video about how Spanish Real Madrid and Barcelona players cope together when they play for their national team? Heated rivalry in La Liga, but they manage to come together and play in harmony when playing for Spain.

Now that I saw this im kinda happy my Barcelona is struggling bc now our competition will be tougher and we wont just win trophies easily in spain, no wonder I enjoy the UCL so much despite barca bottling 3-0 leads and other embarrassing feats

This channel has such good editing!

every video on this chanel is fascinating

Wirklich gut gemachtes Video!

I have a dream that one day SC Covilhã goes to the primeira liga and that we stay for more than a year

I love your Videos!

WOahhhh Dr. Alex Bond was my professor at Leeds Beckett Masters. So good to see him on a different platform

The inside knowledge behind the video is amazing, even of it is Gauner through deep research

2020/21 premier League season has to be the most competitive ever

I thinking would be best if certain domestic league's would join eachother like an BeNeleague or a Scandinavian league or an Alpine league, so those clubs would get more revenue from tv deals.

Mate seriously?🙆🏻‍♂️ I have never come accross such research, Hats off to you mate!! Keep rocking and keep spreading the knowledge! 🤓😜✌🏻

What a great video!

this guy could do a 10 hour video about paint drying and i’d still watch/listen love the soothing german? accent

I actually dont think so,cuz 20 years ago leeds were on top of thing,blackburn won PL,stuff changes,10 years ago,spurs were 8th

I love the content on this channel. It is inspiring me to do better and reach further in my own videos too!

This has been an awesome video and I never thought I would click on them but I’m super happy. I’ve been watching football my whole life and I will say that with the growing number of academies in England Spain France the competition will continue to grow because we have far more great players than there are big clubs.

Here on Brazil since 2000 there were 10 Champions

I think the easiest solution (and one done in the US) are salary caps. Redistribution of TV rights too on a more even level will help competitiveness. Football, like Business over the last two decades, seems to hinge on aquisitions. FFP failed, and this football situation needs to be sorted out on a global scale.

High quality videos very impressive

Very good editing quality!

People Here after the super league fiasco 😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

Great video but umm... 9:50 - I think you switched Atalanta and Lyon :D

I’m just now getting into football and I’m having a difficult time deciding which teams to support (I’m open to recommendations lol). There is a regional squad so that’s the MLS covered, but as far as European football the choice seems to be between bandwagoning onto one of these handful of goliaths (no offence if that’s you; whatever makes ya happy, you know?), which feels lame and kinda shameful, or choose among the teams leftover and just be okay with them never having a real chance at winning and resigning myself to only care about 2nd, 3rd, 4th place (depending on the league and number of actually competitive clubs)? I love the idea of relegation/promotion to motivate clubs away from tanking for draft picks (although I guess draft picks aren’t an issue for y’all), and there is a version of this problem in North America where large media markets and flashy cities (your New Yorks and Los Angeles’) attract top talent anyways, but most teams are good enough (I’m thinking basketball here) that you still more or less have that ‘any given night’ feel with each game. I don’t have a solution but when a league championship is basically a lock even before the first kick off, and the only real competition they care about is the champions league, that’s kinda busted and uninteresting.

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Me: I don't watch Seria A Friend: Why Me: I already know whose going to win that. Friend: Juve ofcourse

I'm fine with the premier league right now. Yes the top 6 are most likely to win, but that doesn't mean there won't be exciting football along the way. E.g. the previous champions, Liverpool, being defeated by newly promoted Aston Villa 7-1. It's generally a lot more unpredictable than the other European Leagues. I don't like the idea of drafts as some players become iconic to their teams. Maybe to make things fair, all the teams should get the same amount of transfer money at the start of the season. And their own money can be used for wages, facilities etc.

Great video

Watched one video and subscribed 👍

Salary cup and stuff would only work if they made one european (super) league where the top 20 or so would end up playing. Interest for the domestic leagues would decline as the big and relevant clubs wouldn't play there anymore. Also every now and than you see a US franchise just being moved to another city. Just imagine Liverpool being moved to Moskow for money purposes. I prefer the european system

0:57 Atlético Madrid have a great chance this season

Thanks for including Tadic' goal

But the moneymakers and grabbers designed it like that. The Champions League (Europa Cup I) used to be for all Champions. 1 team from each country, to compete to see who was the best in Europe. Then the Champions League was created and then the top leagues could suddenly send in multiple teams, who all shared in the revenues. Each year, those teams get millions, which gives them an advantage over the other teams in their domestic leagues (and an advantage to those countries that send less teams). Also, those teams get points in the CL for how many teams their league can send to the CL and Europa League. So, if teams are NOT in those leagues, you cannot earn points. So the top countries have 6 or 7 teams in there, while other countries have maybe 3,2,1 or even none. And then they cannot get any points. So the system is created so that whoever is on top, will stay at the top. It used to be (in Europa Cup I) that teams like Panathinaikos, Dinamo Zagreb, Red Star Belgrade, Moscow, HJK Helsinki, Celtic, Rangers, IFK Goteborg, could play a part in European football. Now, that is absolutely impossible and you see a growing disinterest in those countries for football because of that. Most of them have either quit watching, or now just support Barca or Real Madrid. I know it will never go back to those days, but this is just an overview of how the system works now, how it upholds itself and how it is extremely unfair/unequal.

You also have to remember that us/can leagues have by far the best leagues in certain global sports like basketball, baseball and hockey so it’s easy for them to put in things like salary caps and drafts without worrying of players leaving

Well we’ll well here we are

Great partnership!!

Top notch video..... Just asking, are you affiliated with Tifo Football in any way?

who knew months after Athletic interest uploaded this the big clubs decided to break away

finally new video 🤣🤣🤣

Well big clubs will never get the complete monopoly or the European football will never get polarized as Teams depend more on management than income. Like AC Milan was one of the biggest teams in Europe but now their effect is reduced due to poor management. The same can be said for Barcelona. They make the most money but their poor management has led them into problems. Once they were invincible , before 2015 but they are in huge trouble which will increase to manifolds if Messi lefts. income is a big factor, but managers and the administration decides the clubs fate like Mourinho did when he led Fc Porto to Champions league victory

My family all support one of the big 6 teams but we also all support our local team. I think that’s common. It’s a good balance of having the underdogs and seeing success and trophies. Granted our local team isn’t great but they do win occasionally

100% this man is an insider

Anyone here after the announcement about the European Super League?

I think the best way to reduce dominance of top leagues is to make a club coefficients, reverse proporcioned to association club coefficients, so the lower your association rating, the higher extras you wall get. For example, teams from 1-3 places in association club coefficients will have the same money as usual thier coefficient is 1.00 Teams from 4-6 places wall get 15% more. coefficient 1.15 Teams from 7-10 places - 30% more, coefficien 1.30, form 11-15 places 50% more coefficien 1.50 etc. Also, Uefa can ban club TV contracts, only league TV contracts, which will have 3 types of payment 1) guarated payment, equal to all clubs for participation 2) payment for results - higher results - higher payment 3) payment for mathes, that are showed on TV, more matched showed -more payment. So it wound help small clubs, motivate to higher results, and motivate to play spectaculary. Sorry for my English, I hope you understand what I mean.

I love this channel.

A good rule that should be implemented is to impose a limit on the number of players a team can hire. This will prevent richer clubs from hoarding the best talent. Additionally, a rule where a percentage of the team must be from home-grown talent should be explored. This could address older fans' attachment to the cultural aspects of clubs.

*The bigger they are, the harder they fall* is the hope that keeps the eu football fresh imo :P This situations reminds me of tenis the big three Djokovic, NadaL and Roger are switching turns in top 3 for years now xd

Can you please put vedio regarding how football club revenue comes.?? Is is profitable in means club spending!!!

Can you please put together a video on the Euroleague? Or ACB even?

There is a difference between having a higher quality less competitive league and having a lower quality more competitive league. The American standard does't reflect the European standard as you explained with relegation and promotion and other things in mind, what an European wants is high quality, we don't care how it is achieved. Yes the quality of the lower leagues and lower teams should be increased but not by lowering the quality of the big teams. Either way great video but in Serie A more teams have fought for the Scudetto rather then being steam rolled by Juve, Roma and Napoli have come very close.

I don't even watch sports, but I like well done explainer videos, good job!

Nice video

Please do a video about eSports 🙌🙌🙌