Activate Another Lever and Still Lose to a Madrid Remontada - The Small Teams Thread

Interesting thread. I didn't know how much clubs in La Liga take the piss with ticket prices when the big 2 are in town

This sums up a really abject side of Spanish football culture. Betis - who have an enormous fanbase - playing Barcelona. Game of the matchday. 12,000 empty seats. Tickets for non season ticket holders €100-250 (yes, really). Unthinkable in other major leagues. Normal in La Liga. https://t.co/Sm530V3GGN

— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) February 1, 2023

 

We should be winning the league ahead of this Barca team

but if we don’t we don’t. I trust in long term sustainability and Flo clearly has a plan.

again

I’m not going to sit here and complain every time we have a second place season or don’t win a CL when we are in the middle of a historic run

 

Would be nice to win a back to back league title for more than once in over 30 years though, we’ve had the teams to do it.

This Barca btw is on track for a 100 point season, hopefully their inexperience shows when it matters and they bottle it. We just need to grind out results for now.

 

Been the case for couple of decades at least.

 

The reality is Spain as a country are struggling financially. Jobs have dried up and money flow isn't the same so people don't have the disposable income to be consistent and definitely not when prices are gouged.

It's why what the EPL are doing is so disgusting. These are the the people who cried about football purity but the reality is they just want everyone else to be handicapped while they bloat their value and rely heavily on outside money from private investors and state's to prop them up.

The thing about life is things happen in cycles... so whenever the EPL does fall apart (and it will) it's going to be a massive and significant harming thing to that country and the sport.

 

In what measurement is this 5 yards?

 

EPL has been splurging money for years and till date no clubs has failed or brought down the country, as you said. In fact, the closest that a club comes to collapsing is Barca in La Liga. You are obviously jealous of EPL’s success, popularity and resources and become so irrational.

 

How many difficult away games does Barcelona even have left at this point? They've already come here, to the Wanda, Villamarín, Anoeta, Pizjuan (well, most years this is harder)...of the teams between 2nd-8th place, the only away trips they have left to make are to Villarreal and Rayo Vallecano.

It's getting harder to see where the dropped points we need are going to come from. Yesterday was the perfect profile for dropped points and it still didn't happen. We really need them to make an extended Europa League run at this point, just for the sake of fixture congestion.

 

You're obviously a child so you're reasoning like one.

Things come and go in cycles. At one point Serie A was the top; resource and financial mismanagement is what ruined them. Same could be said for La Liga.

EPL obviously didn't learn from the other two and are repeating history just with far significant stakes because they amount if money they are throwing around is no where near what they actually generate.

 

Nobody made the match thread for the Valencia game in la liga today?

Must win game, RM is 8 points behind Barca. Valencia is struggling this season and just fired their manager, but they always find an extra gear against RM. This will be a difficult game, but losing is not an option.

 

Sums it up perfectly. The football is very entertaining, technical and overall a very good level but the infrastructure including officiating is bollocks