The reality is you need to get results. If the results are bad fans, pundits etc… will scramble around for reasons why and often these are inaccurate, nonsensical and contradictory
But if your results are considerably worse than what they should be given resources available then you’re doing a bad job which ETH is this season
I think they’ll still go down but a Huddersfield style absolute shit house 36 point survival isn’t impossible
All you need to do is compare Beckham’s career post 2003 to Scholes and Giggs.
Beckham won one La Liga (in which he started 17 games) in an inconsistent spell at Real and was basically done as a serious top level footballer by 2007.
Scholes and Giggs won another 5 league titles and a Champions League.
If we’re only talking about football then Beckham leaving United so he can live his celebrity lifestyle was a disaster for his football career and he’s have been far better off staying at United.
It’s not to compete with the pan american leagues its to work along side them.
Yeah you’re not getting it.
The average football fan supports 1 club. He has time and room in his/her heart for one club and in Mexico/Brazil/Argentina that spot in already taken by local teams who are a good standard who he’s supported his entire life already.
He isn’t going to stop supporting Flamengo and watch every Real Madrid game. No one behaves that way.
Where as the guy in the US who likes playing FIFA who’s starting watching football and wants a team to support is going to pick a team from an English speaking country because it’s so much easier to engage with. And he won’t pick an MLS side because the standard sucks and he has no emotional connection to it.
If there was a wealthy Spanish speaking country with no football culture then La Liga would be killing it in that growth market right now but such a place doesn’t exist.
promote the product massively in Spanish speaking countries
The problem is most of those countries are either low population or have extremely well established leagues.
Part of the strength of PL’s growth is that they’re English speaking and growing into empty massive markets where there’s zero competition (US, India, China, Japan, Africa).
Argentina and Mexico already have their own football culture and even if you include Brazil everyone there already supports Brazilian clubs
Better broadcast rights, and more widespread broadcasting.
There’s limited number of football fans in the world and the vast vast vast majority don’t speak a word of Spanish.
La Liga is already available around the world but people in the US, India, Africa etc… want to watch a league where they can understand the language.
Help other clubs compete with Barca and Madrid by curbing their disregard of the financial rules.
Making the league more competitive won’t make much difference. Serie A has been very competitive the last few years but no one watches it outside of Italy.
Meanwhile the PL does nothing but grow and grow every day.
There’s nothing La Liga can do to compete.
address the shortcomings of your league.
There’s no steps they can take that would bring La Liga back to PL level.
All moves in cycles. PL will fall back down again eventually.
Don’t agree at all.
As the premier English speaking league the PL is going to be ahead of the rest of Europe forever.
The only possible contender is the possiblity of a strong American or Chinese league in the very, very distant future.
Italy, France, Spain, Germany etc… have no chance of ever pulling back ahead.
I think the idea Varane will play again once Martinez/Shaw return is absolutely laughable
He’s very very obviously fallen out of favour with the manager.
Even if you accept the left foot/right distinction (which is bollocks but ETH clearly buys into it) then why can Maguire partner Evans but Varane can’t? It’s not like Martinez is a physical behemoth who makes up for Varane’s weaknesses.
Hes fallen out with the manager and wants to leave. It’s obvious