The Super League is the Premier

The Super League is the Premier”, said Dino de Laurentiis, the singular president of Napoli, when Chelsea took Koulibaly for 40 million.

Now United want to take Osimhen, and offer 100 million plus Cristiano.

And throughout Italy it has hurt that a young value, Scamacca, from Sassuolo, has ended up at West Ham because there has not been a club capable of competing with his offer, 36 + 6.

The Premier drags.

We have seen it with Isak and Casemiro, before with Guedes, Diego Carlos, Estupiñán... We were used to the fact that, as Cristiano is obsessed with, the players always moved towards the Champions League.

Not anymore.

Now the horizon is the Premier and it doesn't matter landing there in a smaller team than the one left behind.

The Premier is richer, it doubles us in television income both in the local market and abroad.

It is a country with 65 million inhabitants, a higher standard of living and a colossal extension of pay television.

Here we are 45 million, less rich and the penetration of pay television did not develop naturally due to Aznar's obstruction of Canal +, the result of his PRISA phobia: he even created an artificial competition, Vía Digital, with which he ended loading PRISA, and created a law of general interest in order to preserve an open game.

The result is that, roughly, the Premier enters 2,000+2,000, between the domestic and foreign markets, and LaLiga 1,100+850.

The good news is that LaLiga is well above its other competitors: Germany (1,170+between 100 and 120), Italy (1,000+150) and France (675+80);

the bad news is that, after years of getting closer, the gap widens again.

The Premier has always had an advantage because of its Commonwealth, because of the old celebrity of its best teams, because of the extension of its language and because of its implantation in the rich North European countries, from which it traditionally imported players and coaches.

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Hence the parallel efforts, although not concerted, of Tebas and Florentino to preach our football abroad.

Tebas, with the extension of schedules and some controversial initiative such as the unborn game in Miami;

Madrid with its summer tours, in the manner of the Bernabéu so long ago in search of international fame.

Added to all this were some glorious years with the presence of Messi and Cristiano in our football.

The Classic became the universal game.

The international rights of LaLiga, almost insignificant at the beginning of the century, multiplied.

But that spring passed.

Cristiano and Messi are no longer here, but Benzema and Lewandowski, which is not the same.

Nor does the National Team surprise the world with its tiqui-taca.

Once these stimuli disappeared, the Premier, with its stable rhythm, has once again taken advantage.

In the US we are 400-150 in favor of them.

In South America and North Africa, on par, but in Sub-Saharan Africa we are 200 to 35. In Asia they double us...

And they distribute in another way.

There, those who earn the most are at the same ceiling as Madrid and Barça, around 160, but nobody is below 100;

here the last ones are around 50. That distribution creates a tighter and more competitive championship, which in turn feeds more the wheel.

And it allows smaller teams to compete in economic advantage for the signings with those of the high strip here.

The Premier, since its creation, was the first to cultivate a neater image, without standing locations, with new fields, pristine terrain.

And it has been a hook for large investors.

Does this have a solution?

In his plea, De Laurentiis launched into the air a proposal that I have already heard from people in Madrid: to group leagues: a Latin league, with the best from Spain, Italy, France and Portugal.

And a Franco-German with the Benelux.

And a Baltic.

And one of the Danube... UEFA regulations do not allow it, which limits one league per federated country.

Hence the lawsuit against its monopoly, beyond the Superliga-Champions conflict.

I don't see it, but the concern exists.

And we live days of runaway Adamism.

The sentence of the UEFA case can open any box of surprises.

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