Having lived through Liverpool and Man United dominance, twoht is not buying the notion that this Man City spell has no end.
So that’s that then for another year.
It should be perfectly obvious that football supporters will fall in along party lines on this subject. Liverpool supporters will argue that the First Division was considerably more egalitarian in the early 1980s, before commercial and television revenues opened up a huge gap between even the top flight’s haves and have-nots. Manchester United supporters would argue that the Champions League is considerably more difficult to win than the European Cup.
Slowly these regulations were chipped away as part of a broader shift in the post-war years. The maximum wage tied player wages to roughly double the average industrial worker’s wage until 1939, but this narrowed to about a third more after the war, when labour shortages pushed wages up and football’s maximum wage didn’t keep pace, and was abolished in 1961 under threat of strike action. Wages started to increase and transfer fees alongside them.
All 20 clubs receive an equal base payment from TV rights, which was worth about £84m last season, with clubs then earning additional amounts depending on how often they are selected for domestic TV, and it is relatively egalitarian. In Italy, the highest-earning club made 3.2 times that made by Venezia, the lowest-earning Serie A club. In Spain, Real Madrid and Barcelona received 3.5 times the amount of the lowest-paid three clubs in La Liga.
City may seem unstoppable right now, but every other period of dominance in the history of football in England has come to an end at some point. Fans of rival clubs are already looking forward to the point at which Pep Guardiola leaves the club with a sense of expectation that this will offer other clubs an opportunity to catch up, as happened with Manchester United after the retirement of Alex Ferguson and the earlier departure of Matt Busby, or at Leeds after Don Revie.
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