The Premier is not so fierce… or is it?

With the results in hand, the Premier does not seem as fierce as they paint it.

If it were up to the English bettors, right now we would have a purely English Champions League final, between Liverpool and Manchester City;

West Ham would be the big favorite to win the Europa League against Rangers (the great renaissance of British football);

and Leicester would also be favorites to beat Feyenoord in the Conference League final.

The reality is that those four European finalists that the Premier promised themselves have been reduced to one, Liverpool, and for 45 minutes it gave the impression that even Jürgen Klopp's energetic team was on the verge of being sunk by the torpedoes of the always undervalued Villarreal.

Given expectations,

the presence of English football in the finals is modest and supporters of football multiculturalism will celebrate with great clapping: instead of five Britons and one Dutchman among the six European finalists of the year we find one English team, one Spanish, one Scottish , one German, one Italian and one Dutch.

By the way, where is France?

None of this allows us to draw too definitive conclusions.

Soccer, like all team sports, depends on uncontrollable factors.

Thibaut Courtois, the true hero of the Bernabéu in last Wednesday's drama, saved Madrid from certain defeat by deflecting a goal ball with the toe of his boot moments before Rodrygo (the official hero) turned the game upside down.

If football was decided on points, Real Madrid would have lost the qualifiers against PSG, Chelsea and City.

But it is decided by goals, fortunately for the madridistas, but also for football in general.

Chance is an unavoidable factor.

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The League has been given up for dead by many, especially by that great global mass that considers the Premier to be far superior and despises the reality of statistics: the overwhelming superiority of the League in the European record for many, many, many years. years, and the undeniable Spanish superiority in heads-up between the League and the Premier in general and in the finals in particular.

At least, until now.

The relative failure of the Premier, who aspired to the European triple crown and will be left alone with the Champions League or alone with nothing, should not encourage too drastic conclusions either.

The reality is that the English league is still the most attractive by far for viewers from around the world… and for international investors!

After the expulsion of Roman Abramóvich, Chelsea is going to be acquired by the American businessman Todd Boehly, who heads the Eldridge Industries investment platform and owns the legendary Los Angeles Lakers NBA team and the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. .

The entry of Boehly, who has reached an agreement with the provisional managers of Chelsea, now only depends on him receiving the definitive approval of the Premier League and the British Government.

With Chelsea back on track and petrodollars arriving in Newcastle, plus the financial strength of City, Liverpool, United, Tottenham and Arsenal, the Premier League continues to offer economic vitality unrivaled in Europe.

The long-term problem is that, as has been seen with Chelsea and can be seen with clubs directly linked to parts of the world that do not respect human rights, that strength may be more fragile than it seems, depending on the mood. politicians of the moment.

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