Frozen Horse
Well-known member
It worked well enough in the past, so what has changed to stop it working well again?
I do wonder about "the squad game"; pre PL, I'd guess many clubs made it trough a season mainly using 14-16. players. I don't think we'd go back to smaller squads with this, so maybe the big clubs would just increase their dominance?
I think standards would fall; on the other hand, I don't believe fans watch for "the quality", they want to see competition, drama, and to be put through the emotional wringer. The league would deliver this as well as ever.
On the whole I'd quite like it (I'll accept parochialism in sport in a way I don't in other aspects of life).
I hate the way talent has been concentrated in 2 or 3 "big leagues" each telling themselves they've got to compete with the others. The title "best league in the world" is meaningless to me.
The concentration of quality in top leagues has led to a blandness in the game: everyone plays the same tactics and systems and the variety from international and European competition has vanished. Furthermore, without pretending East European football has ever been consistently strong at a club level, they have occasionally been able to compete. Red Star and Steaua have been European Champions, and as late as the early 00s Dynamo Kiev were able to reach the CL semifinals. This is impossible now.
I do wonder about "the squad game"; pre PL, I'd guess many clubs made it trough a season mainly using 14-16. players. I don't think we'd go back to smaller squads with this, so maybe the big clubs would just increase their dominance?
I think standards would fall; on the other hand, I don't believe fans watch for "the quality", they want to see competition, drama, and to be put through the emotional wringer. The league would deliver this as well as ever.
On the whole I'd quite like it (I'll accept parochialism in sport in a way I don't in other aspects of life).
I hate the way talent has been concentrated in 2 or 3 "big leagues" each telling themselves they've got to compete with the others. The title "best league in the world" is meaningless to me.
The concentration of quality in top leagues has led to a blandness in the game: everyone plays the same tactics and systems and the variety from international and European competition has vanished. Furthermore, without pretending East European football has ever been consistently strong at a club level, they have occasionally been able to compete. Red Star and Steaua have been European Champions, and as late as the early 00s Dynamo Kiev were able to reach the CL semifinals. This is impossible now.
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