Is there anybody that doesn’t hate Liga MX teams?

No, of course not. IMO FFP rules shouldn’t even exist, they’re terrible. So I don’t consider breaking rules that shouldn’t exist to be ″cheating″.

They don’t make the competition more fair or more competitive and they don’t even prevent teams from going bust (Derby County?). Nobody will convince me that FFP rules are for anything other than to preserve the status quo.

I’m sure people will say ″you’re a City fan, of course you don’t like FFP″, but nah, the rules just suck. I think La Liga’s salary cap is a much better idea than the EPL’s FFP. Granted that too has flaws, but it’d still be better to have something like that. If it were up to me there would just be a soft salary cap, and anything clubs pay over that they’re charged a 100% fee on which is distributed between the clubs under the cap (in full, none of it should be pocketed by the FA!). eg. there’s a 100m per year salary cap, Man City spend 200m, so they pay a 100m fee on top of that that’s shared between all the teams below the cap.

That would still allow teams to spend money they have (and if they have it, why shouldn’t they be able to spend it?) while actually making the league more competitive as lower spending teams would be financially rewarded for spending kess giving them more to invest in the future to improve. Could give a portion of it to lower league teams too, who often have financial issues, to help out the rest of the pyramid.

Deserves credit for being no better than Ole? Why?

Nah, nothing you said really even supports that. The best team wins the majority of the time, and when they don’t it’s usually due to tactics etc… Better tactics absolutely can overcome a team with better players and it’s pretty insulting to say it was just ″luck″ when a smaller team wins rather than giving them credit for playing well in the way they needed to.

Just wait, it’s gonna get worse. I recently learned that from 2025 (I think?) the Sept/Oct international breaks are being merged together to create a 3 week long international break covering the end of Sept/beginning of Oct.

Dude… you’re 6th. If that’s bad then 99.9% of clubs in the country are bad!

You do you though. People start like different teams fairly often, for various reasons.

Plenty of players still wear 10 on their shirt. How could a shirt number be ″dead″?

Yes, of course. It’s incredibly unlikely for an existing club unless they get close to bankruptcy, but it’s definitely possible for new clubs. Some even do pretty well with it!

Yep, every week, every season. IIRC since the blackout runs until 5:15, when they used to air Italian Serie A matches that kicked off at 5 they’d just miss the first 15 mins and start at 5:15 anyway. Must’ve been really annoying!

Man City, Barcelona, Roma, Dortmund and PSV.

Ballon d’Or is no longer a calendar year award. It’s been awarded based on the season, ie. Jul 22 - Jun 23, for the last few years now.

Thanks for this. Really helps to see a breakdown of titles during the period in question!

Don’t try and be ″completely objective″. The ballon d’or is a subjective award, always has been and always will be. It’s literally impossible for a best player award to be objective.

As for your argument, record winners means nothing. The Copa America is a highly competitive competition and winning it means a lot for any country, it doesn’t matter how many times they’ve won it before. Would you use the same argument if Brazil sweep all before them and romp to a 2026 WC win? ″they’re record WC winners already, so it’s not impressive″? No, because that would be silly. Brazil’s previous wins wouldn’t make a 2026 win any less impressive!