Have new financial fair play rules fixed the parity issue in soccer?
Have new financial fair play rules fixed the parity issue in soccer? | The Cooligans
Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros discuss how financial fair play rules have impacted the sport of soccer. Hear the full conversation on the 'The Cooligans' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.
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I have to ask the question, has financial fair play fixed football?
I think financial fair play rules have kind of fixed football.
In the long run, it has leveled the playing field enough.
It is given opportunity for smaller clubs to be able to hold on to their players and not just get all their best players poached by the biggest clubs.
It's knocked down.
Dynasties, even going back to Bayer Leverkusen, maybe not exactly because of PSR, but Bayer Leverkusen last season and what they were able to do, that seemingly has spread across other leagues, maybe not to the same effect, but you have to say the rules that have been put in place, while not perfect, have absolutely helped team the quality improved uh uh uh through the table and through the middle of the table.
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Liverpool are.
Currently on, I think 83 points to win the title in the last 5 years to win with like whatever 86 that they'll end up with, that's fairly low.
Arteta was always saying 90 is the number, right?
90 is the number.
You got to get it.
So to win with that.
So now it's getting frustrating for an Arsenal fan.
It's getting, it's getting harder to beat the, the Brentfords, the West Hams this season is interesting because even.
The, the, the points for the teams, the teams that were relegated were relegated with what they were 3 weeks ago or something like that.
They had terrible seasons, the, the 3 relegated teams, and nobody reached 90 points, you know what I mean?
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So those points were spread throughout the rest of the table.
The middle of the table is what you're saying is stronger than it's ever been, which says a lot.
The conversation about the top 4 and the top 6 or the big 6 or whatever, it's.
That's sort of gone, right?
There's no, there's no such thing as a big 6 anymore, especially now when you got Newcastle fighting for, for a position in in Europe, Nottingham For being in the conversation, Brighton not really going away until late.
I mean, some of these conversations are gonna continue where it's not the typical 4 or 5.
And also this puts so much more pressure on teams like Manchester United to not only figure it out but just just to sort of straighten their course because there's so much more competition.
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