La Liga is the most successful league (by quite some distance) historically in European football. La Liga football clubs have won more European trophies than any other league. No other league has had as many all-time greats as La Liga (record number of Ballon d'or winners, European Golden Shoe winners etc.) either with Serie A a closely second historically. RM and Barça remain the two top dogs in world football as well when it comes to fanbase, trophies won, all-time greats, pedigree and prestige etc. Not only that La Liga is just coming off a period of utter dominance in European football that lasted almost 2 decades.
La Liga, while no longer the undisputed dominant top league in world football, remains in the top 2. Only the doping league (EPL) after years of artificial spending due to the UK/EPL selling out to oil/gas rich Middle Eastern dictatorships, formerly criminal Russian oligarchs and American billionaires is at last at a similar level and nowadays a slightly better level.
It is no longer than 8 months ago (May 2022) that La Liga had 2 teams in the CL semifinals (RM and Villarreal) with RM ending up wining the CL.
Even with a La Liga in decline, partially due to the stupidly rigid FFP rules of La Liga itself, courtesy of Tebas, La Liga remains a top 2 league. For how long remains to be seen.
Now I can't imagine how utterly dominant La Liga could be if almost every La Liga club was owned by oil/gas rich Middle Eastern dictatorships, formerly criminal Russian oligarchs and American billionaires etc. like the case is in England (EPL). It is absolutely pathetic to see historical greats in Spain and Italy being unable to compete with some no-names English clubs due to the latter artificial money or lottery wins.
In terms of results in La Liga, what Barça and Xavi have done deserve respect and nobody can deny it given the institutional crisis (unprecedented in recent Barça history - we have to go back to the last years of Gaspart's reign to find something similar), the GOAT (Messi) leaving the club, post-COVID-19 economic crisis + Bartomeu's almost deliberate sabotage of the club, one of the youngest teams in Europe etc. To try and downplay this, due to the usual suspects obsession/dislike of Barça is pathetic.
Are you really 48 years old?
A Chelsea fan talking about a project?
How is your project going exactly? And which sane footballer who does not exclusively prioritize money, let alone a Brazilian one, would prefer playing for a tinpot club like Chelsea over freaking FC Barcelona? Imagine Barça owned by some criminal Russian oligarch, US billionaire sugar daddy or Qatar (like QSG). We would get every single top player 24/7 as was the case until not long ago without any such sugar daddies. Our rebuilt would take a few months instead of the 1-1.5 season it took instead.
You mean the same QSG that you happen to support which, much like Chelsea from 2003 onwards, have helped ruin modern football by serving as a sports washing vehicle by a dictatorship (Qatar) and the same QSG that has been cheating UEFA FFP rules (along other such clubs like Man City) time and time again? Which artificially became a relevant club overnight? Who used fake inflated sponsorship deals to gain an artificial advantage over the domestic and European competition? The same club that just during the 2017 transfer window, somehow managed to buy Neymar for a record transfer fee (222 million euros) which still stands to this day, later to buy Mbappé for a similar sum in the same transfer window?
You know what is even more funny? Your QSG has nothing to show for all those wasted billions of euros in Europe. Zero trophies.
And of course the criminal Al-Khelaifi is against a potential Super League. No longer any protection from UEFA or the French state due to France-Qatar military and business ties. After all France is selling 100's of billions worth of weapons deals to a country that will never use those same weapons and who already de facto is a US military base (Al-Udeid).
In which universe will such a thing occur? The EPL nowadays is not even remotely bigger/richer/more followed than those leagues COMBINED so in what universe would a potential and quite frankly extremely unlikely merger of said leagues, INCREASE the financial dominance of the EPL, which we all know, is mostly artificial in nature to begin with for obvious reasons?
And anyone thinking that somehow every non-EPL top club will sit back and watch the doping league (EPL) increase their economic dominance without doing anything to prevent this trend, is living in a fantasy world. Of course there will be a strong reaction and steps will be taken to prevent this from occurring. Whether a Super League emerges or something else. What is absolutely guaranteed is that there will be countermoves.
Either that or the only option that remains to be competitive, is to follow the route of almost every EPL club, QSG etc. and in the case of Barça and RM, sell out to become propaganda vehicles/sports washing instruments of similar Middle Eastern dictatorships, Russian/Chinese oligarchs, US billionaires, hedge funds, investment banks or whatever.
Because as I see it there is no way for anyone else to compete with this nonsense as long as notoriously corrupt institutions such as UEFA and FIFA are doing nothing and the EPL/UK government seemingly being fine with selling out due to mere profit. After all, London is probably the number 1 financial capital in terms of dirty money so this development is hardly a surprise.
