The Premier League is BROKEN. Why the traditional Big 6 does not exist anymore and that it is now the Big 17, as newly promoted clubs cannot compete with the funds and firepower of the established clubs in England’s top flight. The video breaks down how promotion to the Premier League can be a poisoned chalice for clubs like; Leicester City Southampton FC Burnley Luton Town Sunderland and Sheffield United, who often find themselves in a promotion and relegation cycle. The competitiveness of the EPL is so high that these clubs struggle to establish themselves. As well as the struggle of the traditional top sides such as Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur as they begin to fall behind the likes of Aston Villa, Newcastle United, Brighton Hove Albion and the other big teams in England. Learn about the challenges these teams face.
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the Premier League is too competitive to a point where it isn’t competitive at all and let me tell you what I mean by that imagine you’re a Championship club you win promotion the fans are in ecstasy you’re in the Premier League a global spotlight pack stadiums massive match days but then you lose 4-0 3-1 5-1 and before you know it you’re bottom in November burnley Luton Sheffield United Ipsswitch Leicester Southampton all promoted all failed to stay up in the last two years and while they crashed out giants like Spurs and Man United were also barely surviving so what’s going on how’s the Premier League become too competitive this is the brutal truth about the league no one can crack anymore and how the big six you thought you knew is now actually the big 17 football has changed and not just the tactics or formations the structures of the modern game its finances analytics and business models has completely transformed in 2005 most Premier League teams were still sort of locally run now they’re owned by billionaires venture capitalists sovereign wealth funds or backed by entire nations and they run clubs like elite companies data logistics profit margins every inch of football is monetized it’s no longer enough to be a good football team you need a footballing operation one that knows how to handle global recruitment FFP player resale value and any sort of marginal gains you can through nutrition sleep tracking and AIdriven training models if you’re a championship club trying to break in you’re running up a digital financial and strategic mountain people still talk about the big six like it means something in reality it’s it’s kind of gone that old club of elite six teams is now just kind of a memory we’re now in an era of the big 17 that’s right 17 clubs in the Premier League today have more resources to challenge for mid-table or better the margins are razor thin just one or two bad signings and a poor managerial appointment and your team could fall down the table in a matter of weeks and the same vice versa just this past season nine teams qualified for European football that’s almost half of the league brighton Brenford Villa Newcastle they’ve all cracked the code they’ve built elite squads without huge net spends because they’ve built elite infrastructures or been backed by Saudi Arabia but regardless they have to spend well in order to climb to the top but why are the promoted teams failing what is it about the leap from Championship to the Premier League that’s now just unmanageable even with parachute payments promoted clubs can’t compete with the spending power of the established clubs a newly promoted side might be able to spend 50 million in total for for context Wolves just finished 16th and sold Kuna to the team one place above them albeit that team was Man United for62 million the levels in quality are pretty stark between the Championship and Premier League these days you know when you come up as a newly promoted team you have a small number of players that can actually cut it and if you get one big injury to one of those players well let’s just say it’s not ideal as well as this many promoted teams win the championship by playing brave attacking fluid football but the Premier League just punishes mistakes you can’t do that you lose the ball in midfield and it’s in your net 10 seconds later you’re not coming up from the Championship with the ability of Manchester City let’s take a look at what’s happened recently burnley under company they played dominant progressive football but they tried to keep that style in the Premier League without the personnel to back it up and the result they got exposed over and over and then company managed to fall upwards to Bayern Munich but if anything that shows the level and even more you can get relegated from the Premier League and then land a managerial job at Bayern Munich Luton a beautiful rise great narrative but the infrastructure simply wasn’t ready a couple nice signings gave some hope with the likes of a Ross Barkley resurgence but it wasn’t really ever looking likely that they would stay up ips switch backto-back promotions a fairy tale a promising manager but that was really about it most players had never faced the top flight pressure and it showed despite spending over 150 million and then there’s Leicester in Southampton even the teams that had Premier League in the recent years couldn’t rebuild fast enough leicester had a couple decent players but time wasted under Steve Cooper and then a pretty failed appointment and Rude Van Distroy put the nail in the coffin and well the less said about Southampton the better so what about next season can anyone break the cycle and my answer in short is no personally I don’t see enough quality anywhere in Sunderland Leeds or Burnley to see them stay up and we could be heading for a third consecutive season of every promoted team going straight back down the unfortunate truth is all three teams will be fighting for for survival from day one and it could easily be all but over by Christmas if the promoter teams are set up to fail then the system needs to evolve without change we’re heading towards a closed shop where 17 clubs recycle positions and promotion becomes a revolving door of false hope the Premier League is beautiful it’s the most watched league in the world for a reason but beneath that beauty is brutality it’s a fortress now and to break into it takes more than passion it takes a decade long plan a business savvy model and a bit of magic promoted teams just aren’t underdogs anymore they’re lambs to the slaughter unless they evolve quickly and but that’s just easier said than done i mean you’ve got your random ones that have managed to do it over time like Brighton your Brenford but that that’s that’s not a sustainable model like you can’t just go oh we’re we’re going to do that we’re just going to copy you can’t copy that and so with that thanks for watching drop a like 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