The rich and the poor, the imbalance of competition, and the urgent need of a wealthy sink in football?

The rich and the poor, the imbalance of competition, and the urgent need of a wealthy sink in football?

Simon-Cooper's "Barcelona" is the best football book in 2022. Cooper's original intention is to tell how Barcelona has become the strongest giant in football.

However, during the writing of Cooper, the situation changed.

Barcelona is no longer the strongest giant in football, and has become a football joke due to poor management.

When "Barcelona" was published last summer, Messi had not yet joined PSG. Barcelona wanted to retain Messi, and Messi himself wanted to stay in the team, but the rotten financial situation made Barcelona unable to register for Messi.

The last chapter of "Barcelona" is "Messi's club". Although this book was written by Cooper before Messi left the team, we could feel that Messi's departure was inevitable when reading. When this book was officially published, the subtitle was changed from "the inside of the world's first giants" to "the history of the rise and fall of modern football clubs." The latter does not seem to be as good as the former.

However, Barcelona's Shen Luo is not a bad thing for the entire football. Barcelona can't work normally. This rare thing should be shocked, but modern football urgently needs such stories to maintain competitive balance.

At the beginning of this century, Spanish football was in a beautiful era. Barcelona and Real Madrid are double male, but they are also very chaotic. High -levels engage in internal fighting, change their heads, do not pay attention to stars, and do not pay attention to teams.

Barcelona used several coach who couldn't control the locker room, and Real Madrid did not pay attention to defense at all. Valencia and Lako stole two league championships while Royal Society and Villarreal also had the strength. At that time, La Liga was fiercely competitive and strong in strength. From the perspective of the number of contacts in the European football, La Liga was the best league in Europe, and it was a big gap with other leagues.

Today, the balance of competition in football is completely broken, what is the reason? The gap between the rich and the poor is too large.

At the intersection of the century, between the Premier League clubs, the maximum wage is three and a half times the lowest value. In the 2020-21 season, the gap was enlarged to 8 times. Therefore, the strength of the wealthy field is far stronger than that of the small club, and the league has become increasingly unsolved.

In history, the situation is not always the case.

Bayern has dominated the Bundesliga for many years, but until 10 years ago, they won 3 consecutive championships in the league. And this year, they have brushed 10 consecutive Guan Weiye.

Bayern not only has economic advantages, but also has a square management, good financial conditions, and reasonable wages. They will not buy superstars without brainless money, and they are also good -looking (most of the time). They dug through the Bundesliga, madly stubbornly enhanced their strength while weakening potential competitors. Bayern transformed the competitive advantage directly into strength advantages, and the Bundesliga became the most unsatisfactory league in the history of football.

If Barcelona has also done well in the past ten years, they have the opportunity to become as ruthless as Bayern. (Of course, the degree may be different, because there are Real Madrid in La Liga, and Madrid is not low.)

Barcelona can set a record for the highest revenue of sports, signed all top stars, and scored more than 90 points every season to win 90%of the league championship. But in fact, in the past 10 seasons, Barcelona "only" won 5 La Liga championships (not winning the championship in the last 3 seasons). Real Madrid won 3 times and played Madrid twice.

A competitive balance has been formed among the three strong La Liga. There are reasons for Real Madrid lineups and excellent Atletico Madrid coaches, but the most important thing is Barcelona Management.

However, Barcelona, ​​which is "difficult", is still the La Liga runner -up last season. It adapted to the life of the Messi era and completed the coach in the middle of the season. In March of this year, they beat Real Madrid 4-0 in Bernabeu.

From the perspective of spinach odds, the probability of Barcelona's new season championship is about 35%. At present, this means that they are in crisis, but in history, this is a normal thing -it is not the strongest to change from La Liga to a second or third.

From this perspective, there is an insurmountable gap between European "Super Giants" and other clubs.

If the small club is not good at operating, it will fall into the abyss of no longer. Derby County won two English League championships in the 1970s, and now they are likely to go bankrupt. The bankruptcy certificate of Belry and Marcosfield in the past two years, some small clubs who invested money may not be able to play, and fans who have been sinned for many years when they come out to clean up the situation.

The current super giants are too big, it is unlikely to go bankrupt. For many years, Barcelona fans have not "suffered guilty", let alone "successive years." Barcelona does not manage well, but now they can't sign so many top players, and they can't get a famous coach.

They can only build a team around the young stars such as Gavi and Pedrich and hand over the handsome seal to the famous Su Havi. But this feels like the beginning of the next great era. Compared with Bogba, Greg and Conte, it seems more in line with Barcelona's ideas and traditions.

Barcelona will definitely get better. In the long run, Barcelona fans should take this pain as a good thing.

Some old Manchester City fans will sadly recall the lowest valley in the history of the club-in December 1998, they lost to York City in the 3rd League in England-to advertise themselves as real city fans. One day, Barcelona fans will also recall the 2021-22 season of Luke Derong kicking forward. This is of course not the same thing, but from the perspective of super giants, it was the lowest valley of Barcelona last season.

The super giants experience a horrible crisis of survival, and in the end, it is the second or third place in one or two seasons.Our football does have serious problems.Barcelona should not be worse than last season. We really don't need to be incompetent in super wealthy management. Football requires more such "high people".

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