EPL: Will market prices kill the competition?

It looks like the financial bubble is growing in the football. Big money is spent on questionable deals without hesitation. Does that affect the EPL?

It looks like financial bubble is growing in football. More and more money is spent on questionable deals without much hesitation. Manchester City managed to pay £49 million for Sterling last year and that was a great example of what happens when you have big money, huge ambitions, but lack of knowledge what to do with it. However, it looks like this ridiculous deal is soon to look normal in whole context of this overspending competition.

I truly admire Pogba as a player and I believe that one day he will be a contender of Ballon d’Or, but £120 million is just a little too much for any player. Just a few clubs in the whole world have that amount of money. It makes me wonder if in the long run those booming prices can affect the competition of Premier League like it has to Bundesliga?

Firstly, we have to understand that this kind of price bubble does not hurt anyone. If a club is ready to pay huge money for an overrated player, there will be a club on the other side, which will take that money.

It is a huge opportunity to earn big money for small EPL clubs. Let us be honest, top class players eventually end up in world-class clubs. However, these days, smaller and less fortunate clubs can take advantage of it.

FC Ajax was doing it for years with a strong youth academy and Leicester proved that superb scouting is the real thing. In my opinion, a strong scouting staff and a little of marketing will make a huge difference in upcoming years and that can only bring more competition to the game. That is where a lot of gold is hidden.

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Last thing to note is that money is not always a factor. I appreciate the most when a player is loyal to a club and vice versa. I bet you could pay as much as you wanted for Totti, but if you were not AC Roma, you would get nothing.

Everyone is talking about this loyalty shrinking those days, but Jamie Vardy proved that it is still there in the EPL too. Where does that leave clubs with a lot of money and no loyalty? Spending their money season after season for no particular reason. It will always be 11 guys on a pitch and only one ball. It takes a while to build a strong team with good chemistry and that is so important; especially in the EPL where the pressure and competition is twice as big and every club has its own pride.

I truly doubt that with all the football’s popularity in England, money can kill the competition of the EPL. It might even be a different case if small clubs will be smart enough to take advantage of all the overspending.

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There are a lot of N’golo Kante’s and Jamie Vardie’s waiting for a shot, playing somewhere in a third league. Being smart cannot be overshadowed by being rich and Leicester proved it last year. I cannot see it changing this year as well. Bookies are giving six teams odds of under ten to win the EPL this upcoming year and that can only prove that competition is as tight as ever.

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