TA: The financial advantages make the Premier League teams more powerful in the Champions League, and it also makes it easier to attract outstanding players.

TA posted an article commenting on the Premier League team’s performance in the Champions League. The following is a translation of the full text.

In this round of Champions League competition, the Premier League team once again showed an almost perfect performance. In 6 games, the Premier League team achieved 5 wins and 1 draw. Liverpool overcame early-season difficulties to defeat Real Madrid; Newcastle defeated Athletic Bilbao; Arsenal easily defeated Slavia Prague; Manchester City beat Borussia Dortmund; and Tottenham defeated Copenhagen.

Now in the Champions League, the performance of the Premier League teams is almost impeccable. The only "flaw" in this round is Chelsea's 2-2 draw with Karabakh in an away game.

When other European teams seem to be able to threaten English teams only by making them travel 2,600 miles, you can't help but wonder whether this situation is healthy.

Currently, the Champions League stage is more than halfway through, and 4 of the 8 direct promotion places are already occupied by English clubs. Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool and Newcastle look to have secured direct qualification, while Tottenham and Chelsea are ranked 10th and 12th respectively. Bayern currently tops the list due to its goal advantage, but considering the current situation, it is not impossible for all six of the Premier League's top six to advance directly without participating in the play-offs.

So far, Premier League teams have played a total of 24 Champions League games and have only lost 3: 2 of them were against Bayern and Barcelona, ​​and the other was Liverpool's defeat at Galatasaray.

Thanks to the ingenious design of the Champions League schedule after the restructuring, Premier League teams will not encounter their domestic opponents in advance in the European war. From the perspective of competition diversity, this is a wise choice. After all, fans do not want to see teams that have already met twice in the league meet again in the European arena. However, this arrangement also allows the English team to actually get a relatively easy chance to compete.

The Premier League’s European war points are rising rapidly, like the mercury column of a thermometer in a cartoon. After this round of Champions League matches, the Premier League's European war points in the past five seasons have exceeded the 100-point mark, reaching 100.227 points, far ahead of Serie A's 88.658 points and La Liga's 82.578 points. This point determines the number of qualifying places a country has in UEFA competitions.

Granted, studying European ratings may not be the reason why you became interested in football, but it does provide a good indication of the dominance of English teams. The Premier League, a competition that brings together the best clubs in the world, naturally thinks this is a good thing. The concept of football games is to be more, bigger, stronger, crushing opponents, and the strong dominate everything. Therefore, this European War points ranking mechanism and the new Champions League competition system are a good thing for the Premier League.

However, except for the real top teams in the continent, other continental leagues’ Champions League teams seem to have difficulty competing with the Premier League. This is not a good phenomenon for the Champions League, which is known as the world’s largest and most dazzling football competition.

This is actually not surprising. The long-term financial leadership of Premier League teams makes this situation almost an inevitable result.

Premier League teams spent more than 3 billion pounds on transfer fees this summer, exceeding the sum of the other four major European leagues. Liverpool spent £415m (recovering about half of the money through player sales), a figure close to the expenditure of the entire Ligue 1 league. Apart from Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Paris Saint-Germain and possibly Bayern, no other team in Europe can financially compete with the Premier League teams.

It is one thing for Manchester City to sign Reijnders from Milan, but when Newcastle are able to sign Jiafu and the Rossoneri cannot, it highlights the different levels of financial resources between the two leagues. Money isn't everything in football, but it's really important and it does give you more opportunities to make mistakes.

So what measures can be taken to make the gap between various leagues smaller? In practice, it is difficult to achieve a true balance between the various existing fiscal regulations because they are tied to revenue.

As long as the Premier League continues to make huge amounts of money, it will continue to use these funds to consolidate its financial dominance. Essentially, it's hard to see this changing unless the Premier League no longer generates significant revenue from television broadcasts.

An issue worth discussing is whether additional Champions League places should be given to the best-performing countries. After all, the more Premier League teams participating in the Champions League, the more obvious the gap between the Premier League and other leagues.

Due to the existing economic gap, it is already easier for English clubs to attract players, and when more Premier League clubs have the opportunity to participate in the Champions League, it will be more difficult for clubs in other countries to attract good players.

Giving up the extra Champions League qualification spots to other leagues may be more beneficial to the entire football competition in the long run. While there may be some negative consequences in the short term, this could theoretically help balance the situation.

There are 6 English teams participating in the Champions League this season. This is mainly due to the combination of some special circumstances, but it also highlights the dominance of the Premier League: Tottenham and Manchester United ranked 17th and 15th respectively in the Premier League last season, but defeated all opponents in the Europa League and met in the final, thus earning the Premier League an extra seat in the Champions League. Chelsea easily won the UEFA Champions League.

However, English teams do not actually dominate the entire Champions League as much as their financial resources do.

Since the old European Champions League was renamed the Champions League, there have only been 7 championships won by English teams in the 33 tournaments. Real Madrid alone have won the Champions League more times than this number, and although they are a special case, it does make people feel that the English team's performance in the Champions League is somewhat unsatisfactory when they have such abundant resources.

But so far, these six English teams have swept almost all their opponents in the Champions League. That's great for the Premier League, but what about other leagues?