“Your last column was needlessly equivocal about why the Bundesliga is so boring,” S.Ok. Gupta feels. “There is just one cause and that’s the 50+1 rule. By precluding exterior funding, nobody can problem the established order. If the Bundesliga needs to turn into a real sporting competitors with some uncertainty concerning the finish outcome, they need to make their golf equipment enticing to traders who would make investments funds to construct a aggressive workforce.”
There have been instances, I’ll admit, when I’ve been tempted to come back to the identical conclusion. The Bundesliga performing as Bayern Munich’s fief is, I feel, a problem for German soccer.
However I’m not satisfied that breaking the bond between workforce and followers is the answer. I believe that exact highway results in the Premier League, the place, as a substitute of 1 wealthy workforce, you find yourself with a cartel of 4 or 5 – 6, monopolizing not solely the title however the entire different prizes, too. German followers cherish their tradition. Change is critical, however not at any price.
David Hunter is nearer to my mind-set. “You didn’t point out the apparent answer: a wage cap,” he wrote. “American soccer has one, and there are not often routine winners season after season.” That is true, after all, however there may be one large hitch: a wage cap may solely work if it was agreed to by golf equipment in each league in Europe, moderately than only one. And that prospect is, sadly, an especially distant one.
Lastly, let’s return a few weeks. “If we, the followers, decide what matters in football, it’s value noting that the viewing public and groups’ house owners have very totally different concepts of the idea of danger,” wrote Alex McMillan. “Followers cherish danger: It’s what makes profitable something value one thing. The house owners of the wealthiest golf equipment detest it: It threatens their billion-dollar funding.”
That is, to me, the crux of the problem over soccer’s future. The sport thrives on danger. It’s the operating of it and the taking of it that makes it interesting. However, sure, that’s diametrically against what house owners need and — if we’re being variety — what sustainable companies want. Nearly each debate about the place the sport goes, or what it should do, boils right down to that rigidity. The way it performs out will outline what form soccer takes.
