Is the Premier League Ruining Football? 

The only thing that ruined football was that we never got to see Niran at Real Madrid cause of that knee injury innit

Another example: Onuachu was the star man at Genk, who would have become champions of Belgium with him. He could've been playing Champions league next season and in the midst of it all he goes to Southampton

The fact a team that gets relegated from the Prem still gets 100M€ at the end of the season is mindblowing lol

even in FIFA you get absurd differences, 90m for winning Bundesliga and 200+m for winning PL

Zaniolo's Fortune Teller in 2019: I see visions of joining i Rossoneri in 2023 Zaniolo: I'm going to AC Milan Zaniolo 2023: Vafanculo, I'm joining Bourmouth.

Considering the money that a promoted side like Nottingham Forest have been able to spend, kind of hard to not think they are🤷‍♂️

Chelsea alone spent what the entirety of La Liga has spent for the past 3 seasons in one winter. It's safe to say they are

If niran didn't have that discombobulated knee injury he would save the premier league and all of football innit

As a fan of a championship club and can definitely say yes the prem ruins football for me, the price of players has sky rocketed so much that it's becoming so hard for a team like swansea to buy anyone, apart from the teams recently relegated from prem, no teams have the money to progress anymore, the only way to get anyone decent is either free transfers or loans, other than that it's signing players from the Korean 7th division hoping they turn good after 5 seasons. And this all stems from the prem teams spending habits, other clubs around Europe will overcharge us for a 3rd choice left back because they know how much English league teams spend on players, the owners of championship clubs are not doing anything to help us with this issue because they are more then happy to do just enough to keep making money off us all buy overcharging big clubs for our best young players, money which we never see again, Swansea sold flyn downes to West ham for 10 Mill and then didn't have the money to buy anyone for over 500k. Unless you have been in the prem in the last 3 years it becomes so hard to get there again, teams like Watford, Fulham, westbrom, Norwich, Bournemouth, all of these teams doing amazing in the championship because they still have that prem money, but they look at swansea as soon as you stay too long you get hard stuck because the ability to progress becomes a next to impossible game which is only getting harder to play. Owners are running clubs into the ground while the big teams spend 45 mill on a back up left back.

Imo another big worry for me is multi club ownership centered around the PL clubs. For example the owner of Bournemouth bought a big stake in french club lorient (currently 6th in Ligue 1) and in the January transfer window Lorient winger Dango Ouattara left Lorient fighting for a european spot to go to relegation threatened Bournemouth

Prem clubs: (1) spending stupid amounts on players that no other league will (2) clubs not following FFP (3) prem referees being terrible and making wrong decisions. Short answer… YES.

When l found out Aston villa has spent more than Madrid l was shook to my core😬

I like how every single EPL team in the champions league still manage to not win any of their games these past two weeks.

Hope niran is doing good cause his team isnt ❤️💀

Let's be honest 76% of all players that move to the prem destroy their careers (or at least downgrade)

Was Calciopoli the start of the demise of leagues that aren’t England? I swear in 06 there were elite squads in every league

Premier League money is the reason why England will never do well in big international tournaments because they heavily rely on foreign talents and don't produce enough homegrown talents.

Definitely need to introduce some kind of salary cap. All that FFP does is insure that big clubs with lots of commercial revenue stay big and small clubs can't get the cash injections needed to compete with them.

If it weren't for the knee injury he would have signed for 150 million at Chelsea

Seeing this not a full day after liverpool held 5 at home to a Spanish team

This video existing and then none of the English clubs winning in the round of 16 in this years Champions League just shows the competition isn't dead yet.

One big difference between football now and then, was that before, all leagues had quotas on foreign players. This meant that even if a league (like Serie A for a time) had the richest owners, they would only be able to sign a limited number of players abroad. We don't need to go back, but measures to encourage local talent and academies should be promoted. There was a time where English clubs won the European Cup 6 times in a row, and only one player (Grobbelaar) wasn't from the British Isles. There should be more regulations to make sure clubs are healthy like Bayern. Thing is, if Premier League clubs keep overspending and risking to go into debt, they might face a Barça-style scare if something that threatens the league's finances happens.

Badiashile is the only new Chelsea signing that has won a game

Spending cap relative to where you finished in the league the previous season. Not to mention American Football but the salary cap does wonders. Something similar might also encourage the use of academy players.

Liverpool fan: stage 1 panic

Niran touched on the subject without really picturing the scale. Relegation Bournemouth earns roughly x10 as much as Juventus on TV rights and that is not accounting the ad deals associated with those TV deals. It has spun completely out of control.

I feel like other leagues also bump up prices cuz they know premier league clubs will pay more. Like look at Memphis depay who went for around 5m, if any prem club was involved it'd probably bump up to 25m or something

100% agree on the spending. As much as I love watching the PL, I know the only reason I’m able to watch it here in the US is because NBC paid a crap ton of money to secure the rights and that only happens because there is money to spend and money to be made. It’s crazy. Thanks for making this video and putting it all into context.

The unnoticeable outcomes of PL spending too much cash 1. Its effect on the National Team. No club will will want to have a youth academy and raise homegrown players when they can spend and get someone maybe better from like the Bundesliga or Ligue 1. 2. Players loyalty towards their club. Players will become more greedy for money and this means they might join rivals for better packages . The derbys will feel like friendlys then.

Great vid keep up the good work

Trust me as a Norwich fan we’ve know this for years. When you are trying to consolidate yourself in the premier league and you have to compete with the big clubs splashing 70-100m on not even world class players and your relegation rivals are spending 100m more than you, you realise how fucked it actually is in the premier league

Really intresting video bro keep up the good work.

FYI, 665mln is 15bln where i live, South Africa, that is a shit ton of money to look proper average stwl

Niran, you probably won’t see this but I’m loving the newer format and video idea, please don’t give up on it !! It’s super entertaining I promise

Me when I see the like button on Niran's latest video "in that position I just have to smash it"

as mark goldbridge if other leagues split the money equally amongst the clubs they wouldnt be that far off than say rma and fcb

This was what people were saying about the Serie A in the late 90s and early 2000s

Love how Niran and Zealand have posted like the same 2 videos in a row. The two best football RU-vidrs rn

I would say the problem lies more within the ownership of the clubs. If they legitimately got the funds to do all of this fine, but it's oil money from dictatorships that is financing this

I'm a super big fan!!! Love the content bro. ❤

the fact forrest have a 3 time CL winner in keylor navas 2 La Liga winners in felipe and renan lodi infront of him ,getting captained and orderd around by joe worral says it all imo

Great video, so true, so nice to see someone speak truth

the prem is living with a Brian clough spending mentality

revenue sharing in other leagues is unfair. big clubs there take a huge part of the pie leaving the rest bits, which leads to them not being able to financially compete with their english equivalents

This is why the same teams get relegated from the prem because they either don’t have the money or don’t want to go in to debt

Nirans is totally not salty seeing Chelsea buying half of another football team players in a team but still Liverpool couldn't manage to sign a good human who can kick a ball this season . Man's playing self division rivals within the club teams players .

The Prem is ruining all the other leagues, thats just fax. Its not cool. And who are you going to watch in a stadium if you dont live in england. its just sad

Eventually the other top leagues will get new broadcast deals and id imagine this will level out but until then its gonna be like this

Love the vids

Simple. Can't fault the premier league for Barcelona, Madrid and PSG messing up the transfer prices. They started it with the 100 million transfers. Now everyone and their grandma is worth 100 million. Also Premier league has an unfair advantage, it's easy to market when almost 50% of the world (besides china) speak English. Even the best managers are now in England ,Carlo Ancelloti and Diego Simeone are the only other elite managers in Europe.

While the market is completely fucked right now, I dont think the entirety of the blame is on the Prem. La Liga for example are ruined now based on how the money is distributed

It's really funny how the cut off of the 18/19 season seems deliberately chosen to make city look better. The 17/18 season they had a net spend of -226 million euro and the 16/17 season they had a net spend of -180 million euro. Meanwhile clubs like Arsenal, Liverpool and West ham sold for more than they spent during the 17/18 season. Since the 18/19 season, city has only had one year with over 100 million more spent than sold. Before the 18/19 season, 4 out of the last five seasons, they spent more than 100 million net. It really seems chosen to make city look better.

All this money and none of the four PL teams won their Champions League 1st tie. It’s just money being tossed around and it’s getting out of hand

What can you actually do though? If the Premier League is more profitable and pays more. Players prefer to come for only okay teams then stay aboard for more historic and important ones. Unless you want some sort of football communism, I struggle to see what you can do.

Bournemouth being in a transfer race with AC MILAN and WINNING. Was where I decided to hear wat don perez was cook about the ESL

Teams like RM and Barca only have themselves to blame, they could've had broadcasting deals that would benefit the whole league but only chose to benefit themselves and get their own exclusive deals

England would've won a world cup by now... but that knee injury of Niran...

Absolutely spot on Niran

There’s more than 220 brilliant players in Europe/the world so the PL can go hard and try to buy every superstar but the fact that they don’t dominate UEFA comps shows that earning more money doesn’t make you a better player. Other leagues will adapt and when their best players get bought they will uncover new talent who beat the PL millionaire players.

As a Barca fan I will say that to Fulham’s credit, if they played us in any European competition, we’d manage to lose.

the thing is though, mid table spanish clubs play way better football than the likes of tottenham imo, shame the money situation is the way it is really.

still waiting for croquet this week 😪

Massive w of a vid man. Had me crying with every joke! 😂 You should try stand up comedy.

Ways to enrage us Wolves fans; 1. Call Wolverhampton a shithole 2. Worse still, refer to it as Birmingham 😂😂😂 Not happy

Ruining - probably not, overspending on crap - definetely. Pay 100 mil to get battered by German and Spanish teams...

6:04 fucking hell bro 😂☠️ absolutely destroyed my man

Thing to note on the flipside of this is most of that money goes to overseas clubs, the Portuguese league alone has taken in like £1billion from the premier league in the last 5/6 years so the money does circle round

If it was not for that serious knee injury, Niran would basically be the best player in the world right now, and he would have refused to get paid ridiculous wages, and if the world's best player by far ain't getting 500-600k a week and even refusing it, no one else would.

Its ruining players 2, Young talents would rather sit on chelsea´s 7th row of the bench than be a starter at Lyon for example. Makes them not develop as quickly or reach their potential al all.

Really an interesting take

The premier league is nothing compared to niran's football ability before that discombobulated knee injury so that probably made the prem go wild and ruin football.

Look at the managers,former real and spain coach is coaching wolwes,former psg and arsenal manager is manager of villa

Dude at 4:52 is genuinely modern-day Arthur Shelby

As a man who Chelsea tried signing for 350M I agree with Niran

This vídeo deserves a like 👍

BUT ... La Liga usually spend much more than they have in recent years, they used to be the big spenders from 2000-2018 ish .. probably close to proportion to what the EPL is doing now... Seirie A used to be the big spenders in the 80s and 90s... It's all cyclical, (apart from Chelsea, who have been bonkers)

Football has become 100% about business and keeping appearances and is no longer about the sport

When Serie A and La Liga essentially had monopolies in the 2000s and 2010s, no one said anything. But now it's a problem when it's the prem?

If not for that dreaded knee injury big teams would be smashing at least a hundred mil on niran

I'm not a big fan of football, but honestly, the Premiership seems to be footballers who are more Pre Madonna than actual football players.

premier league+real+barcelona+juventus+psg are ruining football.

I call that hair style "8 year old Brillo pad"

"bold of a man with this trim to say anything is ugly I hear that 😂😂" trust niran to start a video strong unlike Liverpool this season

Didn't the same thing happen in Seria A in the 90's and we're all looking at that time with nostalgia?

0:31 prem don’t care. Chelsea at this point are geting relegated

I have spent too much on premier league tickets bro

Niran, u look composed even after what happen at Anfield with real madrid

It’s probably the international money. English is the world language and all the commentary is English

Sadly, they take all good players from the underdogs in the champions leagues. Bernardo Silva, Salah, Allison, Van De Beek, Minamino, Gundogan, & more. Some excel while others fail… Sadly Napoli might be the next team to be raided

fngs vids recently been class

This video is about 7 years overdue.

FSG not selling has hit Niran hard

people shouldn't be complaining about the prem having money. the whole league earns a lot so they have a lot. its basic. if they have it, i dont see a problem with using it. if it breaks a career, atleast the player gets the money which the lower leagues cant provide

Money is not always bad

It’s just business, the other leagues are boring! What Italy was is was not what the EPL is now the EPL product is well packed and attractive.

What gets me is the large amounts on players. Have these clubs seen how successful the "most expensive transfers" list actually is?! It's virtually made up of flops. Far better going for cheaper players who are nearly there in my eyes. Like that Napoli player kvav.... £10 mill!

Thoughts on losing to real 5-2 at home

I agree and I don't. La liga and Seria A are are pushing this because they are having financial struggles. Also a lot of this comes down to the PL being smarter over the years. The PL has made it self more marketable, has a bigger outreach around the world and it helps the main language is english. A big reason for the money in the PL is the TV-rights and La liga have refused to do the same thing. La liga ans Seria A can't just get angry because the PL has been smarter they had their eras. However I think the PL needs to do a better job at making sure money is distributed down the football pyramid and that clubs are following the rules and actually enforcing them.

This is all well and good but you have to ask yourself where is Pogba in all of this?

Unpopular opinion: Nirans trim isn’t dead