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Emeraldegg posted...

I think people could be conditioned so that it wasn't so weird, given enough time. Right now we're just too steeped in it, it would take decades at least.

I mean, soccer is the most popular sport in the world right? And there is so much money in euro football specifically, I see some of those transfer fees. They seem to be doing alright with that format.

I'm no expert in soccer, but I think English soccer is beginning to experience an issue with all that money. As a fan of a team that used to yo-yo between Tier 1 and Tier 2, the larger gap in ability between the teams in each tier is stark and it seems really hard for a team to plant roots in the Premier League before being kicked down to tier 2 again. At that point they have a lot of money spent on their roster and no longer have the income to justify that unless they are able to bounce right back up. Meanwhile there's only ever like five teams that have a chance of winning the Premier League.

There's more nuance to it than that and surely somebody who has been a fan longer than I have can expand on it, but the overall health I don't think is as great as the money would suggest.