Real Madrid and Arsenal..

Arsenal is mainly due to their stupid philosophy they’ve adapted, and if i were an Arsenal fan i’d be pissed off to the max. why sell all your english players, make the first language of the team french, sell big name players and use youngsters. you’ll never win a thing, everyone knew that and how right they were. Liverpool annoy me too with their only buy spanish players policy.

Chelsea have always gone after English players with the best of Europe.

but i really depise Real. its officially the biggest graveyard in football!!
they change their managers and players all the time, its a joke. and chelsea and man city are in danger of being copycats.
apparently they want to sell all their dutchmen. yet Huntelaar was awesome last season and has only been there 6 months, Sneijder and Robben were really good too!
yet apparently they’re all for sale, if i was Roman/Carlo i’d sign all 3 for Chelsea, Robben should have never been sold and the other 2 are awesome.

I much prefer Barcelona, and have done for years. Barca to win the league again! and Chelsea for premier league.. champs league is mostly down to luck. always someone gets lucky in one game along the way.

Porto vs MU (offside goal i think), L’pool vs Chelsea (garcia’s not a goal) THEN Milan (lucky comeback, penalties), Man U vs Chelsea (chelsea hit bar twice, penalties), Barca vs Chelsea (4 penalty appeals turned down)

just cos Im a chelsea fan i’m not feeling hard done by, but uefa do seem to hate chelsea? maybe its the money in english football thing :p or Roman is cursed.

English clubs such and Man U/Man C & Chelsea need to spend the money they have at ridiculously high prices if the players you want are to come join you and make you a bigger club.

every time MU get there, their big players leave for Real. first Beckham, now Ronaldo.. tbh if i was at United i’d retire the no. 7!

Chelsea were supposed to become a world dominating team, and me as a chelsea fan am highly disappointed in how crap the team can be. since Mourinho left the team hasn’t been the same, and the total lack of high profile signings joining the Premier league is due to the fall of the pound against the euro, players will simply earn more in Spain. AND transfer fees of say about €94m (£80m) would have been about a year ago £70m. so for Euro clubs to earn money from sales, its going to cost the English clubs more.

If i was Abramovich, i’d spend ridiculous money on players i know would be good. £60m for a player is cheap now thanks to Real.

but i doubt chelsea will get anyone big this summer tbh, they might win the league as man utd are a little weakened without Ronaldo and Tevez, but the champions league is between Barca and Real for a few years to come til Roman spends his cash big.

Spanish clubs have always been bought up by European billionaires because they are money printing machines on a global scale.

One way to look at it is like this. The countries that speak English are the United States of America, The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.

None of these countries follow football and all the other big football regions do not speak English. The reason La Liga has been so big is because every Portugese or Spanish team on the planet can watch La Liga broadcasts. Try putting on a Premier League broadcast in South America and they wont have an idea what is being said.

This is one advantage clubs like Real Madrid have had with a TV deal that is worth twice as much as Manchester Uniteds due to the sheer amount of viewers involved.

This is all starting to change though as English is becoming a global language and more countries are tuning into the Premier League without a language barrier.

If you go to places like Malaysia you can’t go into a sports store without seeing a United shirt. In Asia especially United are enormous to a scale not seen for a football team ever before.

With so many people around the world adopting English as the language of choice it won’t be long before a lot more people can tune into Premier League broadcasts which will increase TV deals.

Simply put the more viewers you can attract to the screens the more potential customers you have and the better your standing is.

This is why Premier League clubs are being favoured by billionaires as opposed to any other league at the moment and it’s likely more investors from Asia and the Middle East will invest in the Premier League in the interest of a long term development.

Sheikh Mansour whatever you think of him is in it for the long term with Manchester City and plans to turn it into a profit venture one day. Men like these have so many advisers they wouldn’t notice if half of them didn’t show up.

The other side of the coin is the economy as I mentioned earlier. When an economy is in recession things eventually lead to inflation because of the money bring printed. It’s a long term issue but whereas countries like the USA, UK, Germany and France are being bailed out by the Chinese bond investments Spain is not being bailed out.

Spain will likely go into hyper inflation and most of the entities will either get bought out by foreign investors or be left to die. Spanish football is unlikely to be very big for another couple of decades going off the economic trouble the country is in.

Football is big big business now I prefer to look at it from a economic perspective but maybe thats because of the nature of my job. Either way I think La Liga has always been the 800 pound gorilla due to the lack of a language barrier but now the Premier League has the upper hand and is getting the big investors with the big bucks.