British media: The fiscal revenue gap is becoming increasingly obvious, and the European League is becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the Premier League

The Times recently published an article saying that the financial gap between the Premier League and other European leagues is getting bigger and bigger, which makes the dissatisfaction in other European leagues. The article wrote that the total expenditure of the Premier League this summer window is as high as £3 billion, while the total number of La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 is only £2.9 billion.

In the last five summer windows, the total amount of transfer fees in the five major European leagues accounted for 46%. By this summer, this proportion has risen to 51%, and the gap is still increasing.

Of course, other leagues are also trying to catch up with the Premier League. For example, European giants such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Juventus and other European giants originally promoted the establishment of the "European Super League". Although the project was not implemented due to the collective withdrawal of the Premier League big6, these European giants have not given up on this idea and are still planning their next move.

In fact, other European leagues have complex emotions about such a wealthy Premier League. On the one hand, because Premier League teams can squander money and have huge media exposure, a large number of continental team talents choose to go to the Premier League, resulting in the loss of talents from these teams. On the other hand, continental teams can obtain a lot of income by selling players to the Premier League, and even if the ones sold are not top stars, these teams can still receive huge transfer fees.

So now it seems that it is very difficult to restart the "European Premier League". On the one hand, it will be obstructed by relevant interest groups. On the other hand, Premier League teams are not very interested in this project and are likely to not choose to take the lead.

Although the "European Super League" is difficult to land, the objective fact that the financial gap between the Premier League and other leagues still exists, and this will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among European giants.

data shows that the TV broadcasts obtained by Premier League champion Liverpool last season were about 175 million pounds, Bayern's figure was 72 million pounds, Naples' 69 million pounds, and Paris was only 42 million pounds. The media exposure and attention of the Premier League continue to rise, and the Bundesliga even gave free TV rights to the Friday night game to the English market to increase its influence in the local area.

In addition, European giants also find ways to increase their revenue through other methods. For example, Real Madrid and Paris won about 40 million and 80 million pounds in the New World Cup respectively. Now, more European teams also want to get a share, and they have begun to put pressure on FIFA to further expand the World Cup. For example, this season, La Liga plans to move some league games to the United States to try to open up a broader market.

Although Real Madrid is still the world's highest-paid football club, the Galaxy's revenue last season was about 1 billion pounds, but now their expenses in the transfer market have begun to become conservative.

data show that at least seven Premier League teams have exceeded Real Madrid this summer, including Forest and Tottenham. Among the top 10 European team transfer expenses, 8 are from the Premier League, and the other two are Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid.

The financial gap is getting worse and worse, which has also made other European leagues attract stars lower and lower. For example, the Champions League team Villarreal introduced Micautaze from Lyon for 30 million euros this summer, breaking the team's transfer fee record, but many mid-level Premier League teams have exceeded this number, such as Brighton and Bournemouth.

Although there have always been such arguments and voices about the Premier League: these huge amounts of funds are all "bubble", all debts, and an unsustainable development model. But since the founding of the Premier League, these "prophecies" have been broken again and again and never been realized.

source:m7 cn