I guess this is "old" news but I was wondering what others thought of how some of the Spanish clubs are run- notably Atletico Madrid.
They owe more money than Rangers did to the HMRC and yet they still operate and still have the audacity to continue splashing out the cash for big name transfers.
In a certain sense, I would deem this unfair because clearly they have an advantage over a lot of the European field when they are not spending within their means but are not being punished. I'm just saying, despite the results they get on the pitch in the Europa League, they don't actually deserve them when their success is pretty much bought with the Spanish government's/banks refusal to take them to task.
Now it's a drop in the ocean of debt Spain has, but their financial situation is dire, so their continuous backing of this ludicrous, unsustainable spending (famously all the cash generated from the sale of Aguero when to their tax collectors) has to have its repercussions. I may be stretching here, but it's basically the Germans and other European countries who are actually paying for these club debts. Ironic isn't it?
With the Spanish already restless, it's understandable why the government might be afraid to force them to shut up shop, especially as football is ingrained into their culture, however, I think it's just delaying the inevitable. The comeuppance will come and it might as well happen now. Maybe I'm speaking on behalf of wanting Spurs to win the Europa League and being sick of Spanish domination, but just like how Chelsea and Man City, in my eyes, don't deserve their bought trophies, neither do the Spanish clubs deserve their success indebted to lax enforcement.
The league is built on a rotten bridge and the way things are going, it is a matter of when and not if, it all comes crumbling down. (though Barcelona and Real are to blame as well.)
They owe more money than Rangers did to the HMRC and yet they still operate and still have the audacity to continue splashing out the cash for big name transfers.
In a certain sense, I would deem this unfair because clearly they have an advantage over a lot of the European field when they are not spending within their means but are not being punished. I'm just saying, despite the results they get on the pitch in the Europa League, they don't actually deserve them when their success is pretty much bought with the Spanish government's/banks refusal to take them to task.
Now it's a drop in the ocean of debt Spain has, but their financial situation is dire, so their continuous backing of this ludicrous, unsustainable spending (famously all the cash generated from the sale of Aguero when to their tax collectors) has to have its repercussions. I may be stretching here, but it's basically the Germans and other European countries who are actually paying for these club debts. Ironic isn't it?
With the Spanish already restless, it's understandable why the government might be afraid to force them to shut up shop, especially as football is ingrained into their culture, however, I think it's just delaying the inevitable. The comeuppance will come and it might as well happen now. Maybe I'm speaking on behalf of wanting Spurs to win the Europa League and being sick of Spanish domination, but just like how Chelsea and Man City, in my eyes, don't deserve their bought trophies, neither do the Spanish clubs deserve their success indebted to lax enforcement.
The league is built on a rotten bridge and the way things are going, it is a matter of when and not if, it all comes crumbling down. (though Barcelona and Real are to blame as well.)
