Speaking of Hull City, they were Champions League hopefuls in December 2008 before a catastrophic decline of form saw them stutter to top-flight survival by the end of the season.
I think the gap has closed between the big six and teams from 7-12 to the point that any team with enough form and confidence as well as having a good squad can go on a run and fight for Europe, maybe even UCL. Alternatively, a big six with the opposite will slump down the table and be Man United or Spurs.
yes, that's actually why it's not impossible that one of the big six might get relegated in some season in the future if midtable teams continue to improve. I feel like a few seasons in recent years didn't have overly obvious candidates to go down. Obviously, last season's 3 promoted clubs all sucked, but this season, it's really only Southampton that is utterly hopeless, and the rest is an open race. It's why teams like Leicester managed to go down even if they really shouldn't have with their resources, and in many other seasons they wouldn't have gone down with that performance. It's not unimaginable that one of those seasons, we'll have a good newly-promoted team like that Leeds team who finished 9th, and the other midtable clubs will all be quite good, so a team like Chelsea, Man Utd, or Arsenal back in the banter era could have realistically been in a proper relegation fight. Unlikely, but not impossible
So you mean like how it’s been for the entire history of the sport? Manchester United haven’t challenged for a title in over a decade now and they were a perennial top 3 club for the entire existence of the league until 2013. Did every single football fan in the country forget that Leicester City won the league in 2015/16 or that Stoke qualified for Europe? Or maybe if you went back farther you would remember Fulham and Middlesbrough both went to UEFA cup finals and Blackburn rovers won the league beating out Man U, Arsenal and Newcastle?
Newcastle Forest Villa They are the reason its unpredictable, they got themselves moving forward and despite all being relegated or fighting relegation in recent seasons, are competing for Europe
@@justicejericho97 given how Leicester themselves lost the semifinal in the conference league. I see your comment as the typical boring elitist football fan. In which anything below the champions league and PL is worthless. When in fact even Sunday league football is football, and a trophy is a trophy.
A club owned by a gut accused of murder in Greece A club owned by a totalitarian dictatorship And Aston villa owned by an American Great advert for modern football that
Loads of this video is acting as if things are baffling which can be easily explained and would have been a more interesting video if he actually explained the issues and reasons involved. But a guy who can believe "migrants need our help!" and think the issue is settled and anyone raising the economic consequences is "far right" is not very clever and you can't really expect more. Even concepts like chain migration leading to unsustainable everlasting growth even when it goes too far for even the rich, are beyond this guy's 🧠. 😢
Anyone who believes it is only right wing to be against migrants rather than primarily left wing (economic fascism requires mass migration - the system we live under. All the rich love it because of it increasing their profits but dupe Morans into thinking it's about virtue 😂) People don't realise what is a left wing position since due to American fascism, the only left wing party in Europe & America is BSW. Who are anti mass migration. Things that hurt the working class of the country are not left wing. Labour are not left wing at all. Left and right is about economics. However in modern politics every party is far right economic fascists who try to convince people there is a left and right by arguing over social policies. The USSR was right wing if we only focus on social policies 😂
Oh we do have some left wing parties in Eastern Europe like Fico who's party is branded as "far right populists" as they won't allow mass migration and take actions for the people of the nation, not solely the foreign billionaires, as we do it in western Europe.
I doubt anyone from outside the supposed big 6 will win the league this season as good as Nottingham Forest are doing at the moment I think they will end up running out steam in the end but they may still grab a European place which would be a magnificent achievement for them
15 years of marketing growth under Mike Ashley consisted of changing the font of ‘NEWCASTLE UNITED’ on the main stand and slathering everything with ‘SPORTS DIRECT’.
I started watching football in 1995 I always remember Newcastle as Kevin kegans entertainers that was some team they defiantly deserved to win something
As an American, I think a huge reason so many Americans own English clubs is because there is close to no vetting process when it comes to buying a club. It’s incredibly hard to buy/sell American franchises, but it’s VERY easy for clubs in England to swap hands multiple times within a year. The NFL, MLB, NBA nor NHL would ever allow a country or dictator to buy and operate a franchise.
can we please have a video about the neglect cymru premier league? despite having the 3rd oldest football association in the world, wales only got its own football pyramid in the early 90s, and 5 teams from wales still refuse to join. this is a wierd situation that deserves its own video i think.
I could have posted this comment to any one of a huge number of your videos. The social, economic, cultural and historical context in which you place your topics of discussion is very impressive. As is the corroborated robustness with which you make your points. One always walks away informed, even if I perhaps only agree with you 90% of the time! Excellent stuff, and, as I say, impressive.
It's so crazy to me how English footballfans just let all those developments happen to them. Alfie seems to be the only one who actually speaks up against this while so many other influencers who talk about the prem almost seem to revel in all of this because "look at the money".
I assume they just think that if not them, it'd be some other league that would function the same way, so they're grateful to be "the one". And in a way it isn't wrong. As long as football is profitable and open to investment, and having most money means having the best players, someone would do it somewhere eventually. If the Premier League didn't, it would be Serie A, LaLiga, or the European Super League. I don't want it to be the case, but it seems to be
Almost all influencers seem to support a rich 6 club and constantly make tweets/videos about those clubs so from a personal standpoint there's no reason to want it to change
@@maciejbala477 I'd honestly be embarrassed to support one of the big 6. Having that much money behind you and still under performing. Up the Cherries !
I think the Rich 6 teams have been severely overpaying their players for a few years now. Many players in Newcastle of Villa squads are just as good as players at Chelsea or Arsenal, but get paid way less money.
They have but that can’t be guaranteed long term unfortunately. Sooner or later the rich 6 will sort their act out and improve their recruitment, City and Liverpool already have a decent recruitment policy and while Arsenal is more likely to spend big they buy better than Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd. As a Newcastle fan I’m realistic enough to understand just how big a job it is to match these teams on the field and to match their financial figures will take 5-10 years, it might not even be possible to catch up with their financials unless we consistently over-perform and get CL football for the next 5 years
@ I’m not sure it’ll be Real Madrid but if we aren’t in the CL next season then I agree we’ll lose Isak or Bruno or both. I’m realistic enough to know that Bruno, Isak, Gordon and Tonali are good enough to be in a team that wins trophies. If we can’t offer them that then they will move on. We’ll get a decent chunk of cash for them though so if reinvested well it’ll solve a lot of our problems
Before Liverpool in the 1970s-80s, then United in the 90s, you never really had dominant teams for more than 2-3 years (Arsenal in the 20s, Wolves / Man United in the 50s maybe)...and a number of clubs won the league, (Even Spurs, hoho)... Would be good to see those days again.
Only way that’ll happen is with MASSIVE changes. Maybe with the roster rules that Major League Soccer has. Or at least a salary cap (assuming that cap would be different from PSR and SCC).
Premier League marketing itself to world football: "we are the most competitive and open league in Europe and probably in the world!". Reality: only 7 clubs won it in over 30 years. Meanwhile, here in Brasil: "Bitch, we've had that same number in the last 12 years (2012-2024)!" 😅
The prem league positions are largely governed by the spending ability of each club. Even when owners have funds to invest, PSR ensures that the clubs with the deepest squads and larger spending allowances remain at the top. This can be validated by comparing squad and salary values against league position. Other clubs are threatening to break into this elte club, but with a limited ability to rotate players into games or cover injuries/fatigue ultimately leads to the richer clubs maintaining their advantage.
West Ham is not the club I support, but it is one I am happy to see on American television because of the bubbles. 25:07 I firmly believe there should be more bubbles in football.
We need to get a what on Earth is going on video on Dortmund (again), we're currently 10th in the Bundesliga and we have 1 win in 8 matches, you can well explain our failed transfer policy and the baffling decisions about our former, current and next manager
Ironic that the big clubs feel they should get a big share because they generate the revenue, but this creates a self fulfilling prophecy in who's a big club
The whole reason that Nottingham Forest are doing this well, which I'm glad about, is because they completely gambled on getting promoted and spending. As this channel said a few months ago. If it had gone slightly wrong they would have been in serious, serious trouble.
Listed as Canadian-American. I think he got US citizenship in 2024. Technically he is the same nationality as me now. I was British but got US citizenship in 2020. 😊
As a Liverpool fan, if we don’t win the league, I’m putting all my hopes and dreams into Forest. Great fans and great players and a fun team to think about. If I’m being honest we need another Leicester and this season is prime for it
What has not been unpredictable is the teams who have come up, around/in the relegation zone, teams 'underperforming' around mid-table going through the 'new manager merry-go-round' and 2 or more teams who have been relegated, cruising to be promoted from the championship. What has been unpredictable is the notion that a manager with only 'one philosophy' being herald as some sort of unwielding messiah, who ain't going to listen to nobody when their only set of tactics are flawed, like Tottenham with Ange, Pep Guardiola not facilitating his players with a plan B (playing a match without Rodri) and Russell Martin, who will definitely get a big job due to the attacking and possession-based prowess of his football philosophy, and not how flawed it is in the Premier league. Unpopular opinion: The Premier League still needs a Sam Allardyce, Roy Hodgson, and more so, Sean Dyche. Not a Vincent Kompany, Russell Martin or Matt Bloomfield... to an extent
That phenomenon hasn't been unpredictable in the slightest mate, idealism have been where it's at in the PL for awhile now. There's many reasons why we've reached this point, I'd go in-depth into my theories if I wasn't tired atm (of which I have many lol), but it ultimately comes down to the expectations of fans having changed in the last decade or so. The average PL fan now demands quality attacking football as well as an acceptable win rate relative to their club's expected position, so there's little incentive for managers to seek balanced tactical structures right now. This is a fad, the culture usually gets set from the top of the league (e.g. in Fergie's time, big antagonist personalities were the thing) and idealist Guardiola is the big cheese these days.
Good video yet again Alfie. My least favourite competitions these days are the FA Cup and League Cup. Even more predictable than the Premier League. Excluding the 2 all Premier League ties in the FA Cup 3rd round, 15 out of 16 Premier League clubs won their ties. Cup magic is truly gone.
As an american who is just started getting into european football, nottingham forest has been very fun to watch for me. I love their story, players, and gritty playstyle and coach.
In Premier League EVERYBODY Mostly or Does Have This Gritty Play style And.... THEY SHOULD or Will get Destroyed and Bullied in the League like United and Complacent clubs City too kinda 😢
football operation at the middle clubs (many of whom are recently ish promoted) is so much better than it ever has been. recruitment & coaching. newcastle, villa, fulham, forest, brighton, brentford, bournemouth is a hilariously strong 'middle class'. would be nice if it stayed like this for seasons & kept united out the top half
Feel everyone is underestimating Forest. Their history gives them the potential to build a global brand, their owner is a brilliant businessman, they've got a great manager and have (despite the criticism) been extremely effective in the transfer market.
There's only so long you can have money carry your success. Whilst it does, other clubs are levelling up in their own ways. Be it savvy transfer market deals or youth developement. The levels of players will eventually level off. What is more important now, over ability appears to be work rate, grit and motivation. Man Utd are a good example of this as they seem much more motivated when they're playing against the bigger clubs, but have very little against smaller clubs. Nottingham Forest clearly have work rate in spades and are incredibly difficult to break down and base their whole game on that (and Chris Wood being absolutely lethal in front of goal so far has definitely helped). Previous years you'd struggle to see past the top 4 teams being in contention but when you see a club like Leicester win the thing in 2016 you know it's not purely down to having the best players (although they did have a very good team), it's down to a lot more than just that.
Another good example is that the Champions League is still competitive despite most PL clubs spending more on transfers on their own than the other top 3 LEAGUES put together.
In the spirit of Ryuzaki Day 17 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017 Furthermore, they now regularly compete in Europe, have kept their successful trainer Kjetil Knutsen, and they are on course for a new modern stadium that will replace Aspmyra I will keep this going Alfie Expect to see me in your dreams ✨️ Cheers! 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
I think it has been mixed up due to the inconsistency of VAR giving things one game , then a different one the next. Then there is the amount of money that’s involved nowadays.
“Wow look at how well Forest are doing. The premier league is healing guys!” *meanwhile the three promoted teams are right at the bottom and would all be in the relegation zone if Wolves weren’t such a massive mess right now*
People like you said the same about Villa last season and Newcastle the season before that, yet both teams kept their form and qualified for UCL. I think Forest will do the same.
@@mnm5165 do you have any evidence that I said this? Villa were significantly better than Forest are currently, as were Newcastle the season before. 6th will still be a great season for Forest.
@@listeymate, I know English is hard but I clearly said “people LIKE you” not you specifically. And no matter what your opinion is on Forest, Villa or Newcastle, the fact is that people were counting them out and assumed they’d fall back down to mid table at the end of the season. But they didn’t. I believe this season is Forests turn, I have no reason to believe they will not finish in the top 4 based on the way they’ve been playing
I'm not sure they will, but it's an anomaly in the way that Stuttgart were last season in the Bundesliga. A great season, but in the summer they'll see their best players snapped up by bigger clubs and will regress
Hey alfie, I think u should make a video about luxury players who has a unique and hard-to-optimise profile or skillset that can only flourish in a system that suits them or completely built around them but flops outside of it. My first thought was Joao Felix, who isnt a striker, a false 9, a second striker, an attacking midfield nor a winger, he is a mixture of all. He has tremendous talent yet so hard to use, many teams have failed to blend him into their XI and get the best out of him, only Benfica succeeded to do so.
Can you do a "What On Earth" video about Tottenham? One of the most expensive squads in the Premier League, but currently just eight points from relegation and with almost an entire starting XI out injured, and having lost more games than Ipswich.
The solution is simple. Clubs in Europe complain about competing in the 2 domestic cups and play weak teams. Therefore they don't play in the league cup. Since a European slot is at stake you would see a different team in Europe every season and therefore shared European revenue. A trophy available for mid table prem teams. And reduced injuries from playing too many games.
I say yes because in my simulation, Leicester City won the Premier League again, snatching it from a hopeful Liverpool, Mr. Miyamura gets touted the best Japanese player EVER and Brighton and Hove Albion make it to the Champions League alongside Leicester.
Oh, to top off a crazy season, the same player that won ALL of the Player of the Month awards for the Premier League for Leicester City moved to Dortmund and proceeded to dominate there as well.
Title, this season aside, is usually boring and predictable but theres 6 to 8 teams that can easily finish anywhere from 3rd to 10th and you cant call it. One team is flying, loses form and another picks up form. Last 3 seasons theres been 3 teams that have consistently maintained that form. Newcastle 3 years ago, villa last year and this season is forest. Might be boring at the top but it aint boring beneath them
Honestly, I think the Italians may be building something great in Serie A since Juventus stopped being dominant. Both ends of the table look like they have what it takes to go down to the wire.
Football is healing. Had City continued their dominance for the last 4 years then we could say the Premier League is the new Ligue 1. The fact Serie A has the tightest title race in years with Napoli, Inter Milan and Atalanta involved and Atletico Madrid leading La Liga, football is healing one again.
I’d say Serie A has been healed for a while now, ever since the Juventus dynasty went to an end. The real shock is clubs like Napoli and Atalanta actually winning things. Also, Roma won the UECL, don’t forget that.
It's a long way from becoming unpredictable. Forest are doing well at the moment, but it's likely nothing more than good form. At the most, maybe they'll do an Aston Villa and be top 6 for a few seasons. City have been relatively poor this year, but I still think they'll finish second and will be best placed to take over at the top again next season. As for bottom 3, it's never been more predictable.
I think we will look back at this season like we did with the Leicester win, an outlier that we will talk about for years to come. “Remember when the top six wasn’t the same that one year? That was nice.”
What happened to Forest this season is a one-season wonder things. Treat like what Stuttgart, Girona, and Brest did the last season in their domestic campaigns or (for the case of the Premier League) Aston Villa, Newcastle United, or Brighton. Once the next summer's transfer is coming out, some key players will leave to bigger clubs (like Bologna giving up both Zirkzee and Calafiori to the Premier League clubs or Girona losing their La Liga top goalscorer Dovbyk to Roma) and that questionable club will return back to its usual inconsistency form.
I don't really feel like it happened with Newcastle, Brighton and Villa though. They're still good teams. Possibly they will all get Europe this year, and Newcastle look on course for UCL right now. That's why the Premier League is different. You can still keep up, because you actually get the money to replace outgoing players, like Villa did with Grealish for instance.
I mean, you have Forest & Newcastle where you’d expect Tottenham & Man United to be, and you have Tottenham & Man United where you’d expect Forest & Newcastle to be Otherwise the remaining 4 of the “Big 6” are where you’d expect- In the Top 6
gap between PL as closed a little.. but the gap between the PL and Championship has grown a metric amount... Feels like every season now that the promoted teams will just go down every season.
Blame the parachute payments. If you get rid of those, I think the second tier will be more competitive and the yo yo clubs could lose their yo yo status. Even if there’s still insane spending to get to the top flight.
It's a phenomenon we will see maybe once every 10 years or so now, like Leicester winning the Premier League or Bayer Leverkusen winning the Bundesliga.
Here's the thing, while at the top half of the table it's becoming more unpredictable, on the lower the end the bottom three teams right now, are the 3 teams promoted from last season. Southampton are already down, it would take a miracle for them to survive. Leicester and Ipswich do seem to have a better chance in theory, with Everton and Wolves both struggling above them. But the fact remains that as of right now, we are set to have two seasons in a row where the 3 promoted teams are the ones going down. Which is definitely a bad sign for the health of the league system, the fact that the Premier League and Championship gulf is growing bigger
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a big six team get relegated in the next few years. Seems to be a repeat of history with a lot of the large bundesliga clubs going down.
@@TOlp-oe3fpI’m glad someone told him 😂 dreadful prediction honestly. I understand thinking Forest will go down due to them being so close last season, but did this guy seriously think that Southampton would stay up 😭
I think that the owner of city legitimately loves his team, but it would be like asking a president to go watch a game in another country at the drop of a hat.
I only got into football this season, but I decided to go for Nottingham just so I can be annoying to my friend who loves Liverpool because we just beat them. We are doing extremely well and I made a good choice, and we even tied the rematch between Liverpool and us. The crazy thing is, I had to go for 30 seconds during the match to do something and the second I left Liverpool scored.
@@badyoutuber1986 I really doubt it, everybody has contently been saying the whole season Nottingham is gonna loose steam and fall back but it hasent happened.
I don’t buy the argument that the prem was more unpredictable before American owners. Same five teams have won nearly everything in last 50 years. Since 2010 when Americans really started to buy teams, there’s been 5 prem winners. The previous 15 years before that there were 3
1.20 "Forest and Everton have been punished with points deductions for breaching Profit And Sustainability rules" Manchester City, meanwhile, have WAY more breaches than those two clubs combined. Points deducted? O
No, and I'll tell you why I think this. Because all that we're seeing is the big 4 becoming a big 6 becoming a big 10 and it may even eventually get to being the big 17-23. There's so much money in the EPL that you're going to have world class players joining mid table clubs and helping push them on. But the gap between the EPL and the championship is already massive and it having the same teams rotate in and out is a bit crap. Not only that but it also damages prospects for young English players.
What the prem needs, last few seasons have been boring. When United was winning the 90’s, the drama every week was top notch. Today’s era is machines constantly winning & where’s the joy in that. Forest Newcastle & Villa once being top clubs who’s gone through their own struggles is making name this season. May it long continue & one day have my Oxford United in the Premier League
Now that I think about it, the 90s and 2000s was a great time because all the best clubs had great teams and coaches (with the exception of Liverpool, though they tried). Maybe the #BarclaysMen were onto something.
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Once Hull City promotes to the Premier League and actually stays there, the "rich six" can say goodbye to their dominance.
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This is the sort of delusion we gotta deal with nowadays
@ this is the lack of humour we gotta deal with nowadays
Speaking of Hull City, they were Champions League hopefuls in December 2008 before a catastrophic decline of form saw them stutter to top-flight survival by the end of the season.
@@Ese96Agboaye needs to be a video about that
Definitely becoming more predictable at the bottom
The gap between 1st and 17th certainly has closed.
@@justinkids2082it hasn't that part has been constant all season they can never beat the top 10 teams
Still hoping Ipswich can pip wolves or Everton for 17th place though.
Why would you want to see wolves relegated
@@dafttassia1960 Because it's Wolves? Who even likes Wolves?
I think the gap has closed between the big six and teams from 7-12 to the point that any team with enough form and confidence as well as having a good squad can go on a run and fight for Europe, maybe even UCL. Alternatively, a big six with the opposite will slump down the table and be Man United or Spurs.
Mu vs Southampton match already have over 2 million views on mu channel, they celebrating it like they won ucl, definitely top 6 club right now
@greenvegayou celebrate any match mate, doesn’t matter how much you celebrate it. It’s called passion
yes, that's actually why it's not impossible that one of the big six might get relegated in some season in the future if midtable teams continue to improve. I feel like a few seasons in recent years didn't have overly obvious candidates to go down. Obviously, last season's 3 promoted clubs all sucked, but this season, it's really only Southampton that is utterly hopeless, and the rest is an open race. It's why teams like Leicester managed to go down even if they really shouldn't have with their resources, and in many other seasons they wouldn't have gone down with that performance. It's not unimaginable that one of those seasons, we'll have a good newly-promoted team like that Leeds team who finished 9th, and the other midtable clubs will all be quite good, so a team like Chelsea, Man Utd, or Arsenal back in the banter era could have realistically been in a proper relegation fight. Unlikely, but not impossible
So you mean like how it’s been for the entire history of the sport? Manchester United haven’t challenged for a title in over a decade now and they were a perennial top 3 club for the entire existence of the league until 2013. Did every single football fan in the country forget that Leicester City won the league in 2015/16 or that Stoke qualified for Europe? Or maybe if you went back farther you would remember Fulham and Middlesbrough both went to UEFA cup finals and Blackburn rovers won the league beating out Man U, Arsenal and Newcastle?
They’ll always be fed by the PL though as they make money
Perfect timing Alfie.
I was just about to start studying for my exam.
😂
A grade prograstination, bro.
Newcastle
Forest
Villa
They are the reason its unpredictable, they got themselves moving forward and despite all being relegated or fighting relegation in recent seasons, are competing for Europe
Talking about unpredictable you can’t leave out Leicester, West Ham or Brighton. Especially West Ham and Leicester for winning trophies recently.
@@TobascoCatMCYou can’t compare Leicester and West Ham trophies 😂 West Ham were playing against Fur Traders who can only train twice a month
@@justicejericho97 given how Leicester themselves lost the semifinal in the conference league. I see your comment as the typical boring elitist football fan. In which anything below the champions league and PL is worthless. When in fact even Sunday league football is football, and a trophy is a trophy.
A club owned by a gut accused of murder in Greece
A club owned by a totalitarian dictatorship
And Aston villa owned by an American
Great advert for modern football that
@@justicejericho97 Tottenham got knocked out in same competition
Well it all looks very competitive and unpredictable to me
But then again Im in Scotland
That’s unlucky
This channel is led by a moron who is fully into woke unfortunately. 😢
Loads of this video is acting as if things are baffling which can be easily explained and would have been a more interesting video if he actually explained the issues and reasons involved. But a guy who can believe "migrants need our help!" and think the issue is settled and anyone raising the economic consequences is "far right" is not very clever and you can't really expect more.
Even concepts like chain migration leading to unsustainable everlasting growth even when it goes too far for even the rich, are beyond this guy's 🧠. 😢
Anyone who believes it is only right wing to be against migrants rather than primarily left wing (economic fascism requires mass migration - the system we live under. All the rich love it because of it increasing their profits but dupe Morans into thinking it's about virtue 😂)
People don't realise what is a left wing position since due to American fascism, the only left wing party in Europe & America is BSW. Who are anti mass migration.
Things that hurt the working class of the country are not left wing. Labour are not left wing at all. Left and right is about economics. However in modern politics every party is far right economic fascists who try to convince people there is a left and right by arguing over social policies.
The USSR was right wing if we only focus on social policies 😂
Oh we do have some left wing parties in Eastern Europe like Fico who's party is branded as "far right populists" as they won't allow mass migration and take actions for the people of the nation, not solely the foreign billionaires, as we do it in western Europe.
I doubt anyone from outside the supposed big 6 will win the league this season as good as Nottingham Forest are doing at the moment I think they will end up running out steam in the end but they may still grab a European place which would be a magnificent achievement for them
TY Cpt. Obvious...
They'll be back in lower mid-table next season where they belong 😂
What a crazy take
@@RespecTheLevYT A club "belongs" wherever they finish. No club is entitled to trophies or a certain position in the table.
@@PraiseTheRoof 💀
15 years of marketing growth under Mike Ashley consisted of changing the font of ‘NEWCASTLE UNITED’ on the main stand and slathering everything with ‘SPORTS DIRECT’.
And in 15 years all Saudi Arabia will have done is turn a football club into a guady advertisement for the world's richest totalitarian dictatorship
I started watching football in 1995 I always remember Newcastle as Kevin kegans entertainers that was some team they defiantly deserved to win something
As an American, I think a huge reason so many Americans own English clubs is because there is close to no vetting process when it comes to buying a club. It’s incredibly hard to buy/sell American franchises, but it’s VERY easy for clubs in England to swap hands multiple times within a year. The NFL, MLB, NBA nor NHL would ever allow a country or dictator to buy and operate a franchise.
Also, a lot of owners have a thing where you can’t move a team after buying. That also reduces the list of potential buyers.
I wish the US would implement promotion/relegation
@@sovietninja3 I agree, especially in MLB
@@sovietninja3they'd have to rework how the draft works and fans want parity so idk how likely it is they'll ever change it tbh
Clubs can be desperate for the need of cash and are willing to compromise, rightly or wrongly.
can we please have a video about the neglect cymru premier league? despite having the 3rd oldest football association in the world, wales only got its own football pyramid in the early 90s, and 5 teams from wales still refuse to join. this is a wierd situation that deserves its own video i think.
join your anglosaxon oppressors.
Agreed The renegade clubs alone make for an interesting story
Agree with this too
Great Shout
What are the 5 teams??? Cardif, swansea, wrexhan and what are the other 2
0:55 that Arteta and Pep photo always gets me 😂
I could have posted this comment to any one of a huge number of your videos. The social, economic, cultural and historical context in which you place your topics of discussion is very impressive. As is the corroborated robustness with which you make your points. One always walks away informed, even if I perhaps only agree with you 90% of the time! Excellent stuff, and, as I say, impressive.
It's so crazy to me how English footballfans just let all those developments happen to them. Alfie seems to be the only one who actually speaks up against this while so many other influencers who talk about the prem almost seem to revel in all of this because "look at the money".
I assume they just think that if not them, it'd be some other league that would function the same way, so they're grateful to be "the one". And in a way it isn't wrong. As long as football is profitable and open to investment, and having most money means having the best players, someone would do it somewhere eventually. If the Premier League didn't, it would be Serie A, LaLiga, or the European Super League. I don't want it to be the case, but it seems to be
Almost all influencers seem to support a rich 6 club and constantly make tweets/videos about those clubs so from a personal standpoint there's no reason to want it to change
@@maciejbala477 I'd honestly be embarrassed to support one of the big 6. Having that much money behind you and still under performing. Up the Cherries !
@thejylulinks crazy? Really? It isnt like the English ever did anything crazy before. Opening Pandora box has consequences.
I do miss the 3 promoted clubs staying up and a random europa league team Bolton Portsmouth Fulham
No one can be the most unpredictable when the Brazilian League exists, like.. 12 teams have won it in the last 15 years.
Yeah ,Like
Day 15:- Best spanish players in the Premier League.
How about the best players with no international cap.
the last one exists in a "of all time" version
I think the Rich 6 teams have been severely overpaying their players for a few years now. Many players in Newcastle of Villa squads are just as good as players at Chelsea or Arsenal, but get paid way less money.
They have but that can’t be guaranteed long term unfortunately. Sooner or later the rich 6 will sort their act out and improve their recruitment, City and Liverpool already have a decent recruitment policy and while Arsenal is more likely to spend big they buy better than Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd.
As a Newcastle fan I’m realistic enough to understand just how big a job it is to match these teams on the field and to match their financial figures will take 5-10 years, it might not even be possible to catch up with their financials unless we consistently over-perform and get CL football for the next 5 years
Isak, Guimares and Tonali will be at Real Madrid or similar if Newcastle can't offer them champions league football. If not all
@ I’m not sure it’ll be Real Madrid but if we aren’t in the CL next season then I agree we’ll lose Isak or Bruno or both.
I’m realistic enough to know that Bruno, Isak, Gordon and Tonali are good enough to be in a team that wins trophies. If we can’t offer them that then they will move on.
We’ll get a decent chunk of cash for them though so if reinvested well it’ll solve a lot of our problems
And win nothing
Before Liverpool in the 1970s-80s, then United in the 90s, you never really had dominant teams for more than 2-3 years (Arsenal in the 20s, Wolves / Man United in the 50s maybe)...and a number of clubs won the league, (Even Spurs, hoho)... Would be good to see those days again.
Only way that’ll happen is with MASSIVE changes. Maybe with the roster rules that Major League Soccer has. Or at least a salary cap (assuming that cap would be different from PSR and SCC).
Day 12 of asking for a video of the 7 greatest lower league players of all time.
Day one of me giving you the bird for no reason at all. 🖕
Lee Trundle 🙌
Premier League marketing itself to world football: "we are the most competitive and open league in Europe and probably in the world!". Reality: only 7 clubs won it in over 30 years.
Meanwhile, here in Brasil: "Bitch, we've had that same number in the last 12 years (2012-2024)!" 😅
Football doesn't exist in Brazil. It only exists in England
@@jamavraBut can't win any major trophies
@@jamavra I assume you're being ironic and mocking that Premier League - centric mentality many people have. If that's the case, good one, mate! 😅
Seriously what is the appeal of Tottenham to people? I never understood this
@@justinkids2082 They have a Korean guy
The prem league positions are largely governed by the spending ability of each club. Even when owners have funds to invest, PSR ensures that the clubs with the deepest squads and larger spending allowances remain at the top.
This can be validated by comparing squad and salary values against league position.
Other clubs are threatening to break into this elte club, but with a limited ability to rotate players into games or cover injuries/fatigue ultimately leads to the richer clubs maintaining their advantage.
Pompey did the "Forest method" and we almost became non-League AFC Portsmouth. Not a good strategy. Forest would do well to remember that!
Hmmm interesting what Portsmouth done so bad ?
Pompey had dodgy owners doing dodgy deals it's completely different
West Ham is not the club I support, but it is one I am happy to see on American television because of the bubbles. 25:07
I firmly believe there should be more bubbles in football.
We need to get a what on Earth is going on video on Dortmund (again), we're currently 10th in the Bundesliga and we have 1 win in 8 matches, you can well explain our failed transfer policy and the baffling decisions about our former, current and next manager
Perfectly timed upload as I sit down with my lunch. Cheers Alfie!!
I never understood the details of the Premier League breaking from the rest, thank you for explaining it
alfie when we getting another book the people demand it
Bournemouth’s takedown of Newcastle is in keeping with this idea.
Didn’t expect to see a shot of my Panthers in an HITC 7 vid
Alfie really took 32 minutes out of my day just give me a resounding “no”. Lmfao, I love it
Forest are more doing what Stuttgart did last season in the Bundesliga. A great season no doubt, but it's more of an outlier
Stuttgart are coming 4th, sure it’s not 2nd but I wouldn’t go as far as saying last season was an outlier.
Ironic that the big clubs feel they should get a big share because they generate the revenue, but this creates a self fulfilling prophecy in who's a big club
The whole reason that Nottingham Forest are doing this well, which I'm glad about, is because they completely gambled on getting promoted and spending. As this channel said a few months ago. If it had gone slightly wrong they would have been in serious, serious trouble.
Ryan Reynolds is Canadian, not American.
From what I’ve heard, he’s got American citizenship.
Listed as Canadian-American. I think he got US citizenship in 2024. Technically he is the same nationality as me now. I was British but got US citizenship in 2020. 😊
The mid table clubs is the genuine shift. I expect we’ll see more variety at least in the top six than we did 10 years ago.
And then the question becomes if they can be smart with their spending…or if they become like Leeds United in the mid 2000s.
"Without further Adu, who never played in the Premier League and as a result had no bearing on its unpredictability..."
As a Liverpool fan, if we don’t win the league, I’m putting all my hopes and dreams into Forest. Great fans and great players and a fun team to think about. If I’m being honest we need another Leicester and this season is prime for it
you're like 9 points ahead, you can't not win
Clearly know nothing about Liverpool then
Great to see Alfie first thing at 4:00 am in Las Vegas! My favorite podcast 😅😅
Video Idea:
Alfie's 7 favorite Association football play-by-play announcers
Here's to more Alfie videos with Chomsky quotations.
Perhaps one on Serbian football maybe?
Brilliant quote by Chomsky!
@@NYGuy2000 i haven't watched the video yet, what's the quote?
A stopped clock is right twice a day
@@ifan_1234 he said that arsenal really struggle to break down a low block
@@thomasjohnson2862 And Peter Jordanson is right all the time, I bet...
@@ifan_1234 Search for: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient...". Nails the US political system.
Great Video and exposing elites
I'm always happy when I see a new video, because it's always interesting.
Absolutely here for the Chomsky quotes Alf!
What has not been unpredictable is the teams who have come up, around/in the relegation zone, teams 'underperforming' around mid-table going through the 'new manager merry-go-round' and 2 or more teams who have been relegated, cruising to be promoted from the championship.
What has been unpredictable is the notion that a manager with only 'one philosophy' being herald as some sort of unwielding messiah, who ain't going to listen to nobody when their only set of tactics are flawed, like Tottenham with Ange, Pep Guardiola not facilitating his players with a plan B (playing a match without Rodri) and Russell Martin, who will definitely get a big job due to the attacking and possession-based prowess of his football philosophy, and not how flawed it is in the Premier league.
Unpopular opinion: The Premier League still needs a Sam Allardyce, Roy Hodgson, and more so, Sean Dyche. Not a Vincent Kompany, Russell Martin or Matt Bloomfield... to an extent
That phenomenon hasn't been unpredictable in the slightest mate, idealism have been where it's at in the PL for awhile now.
There's many reasons why we've reached this point, I'd go in-depth into my theories if I wasn't tired atm (of which I have many lol), but it ultimately comes down to the expectations of fans having changed in the last decade or so. The average PL fan now demands quality attacking football as well as an acceptable win rate relative to their club's expected position, so there's little incentive for managers to seek balanced tactical structures right now.
This is a fad, the culture usually gets set from the top of the league (e.g. in Fergie's time, big antagonist personalities were the thing) and idealist Guardiola is the big cheese these days.
I love videos like this Alfie
Good video yet again Alfie. My least favourite competitions these days are the FA Cup and League Cup. Even more predictable than the Premier League. Excluding the 2 all Premier League ties in the FA Cup 3rd round, 15 out of 16 Premier League clubs won their ties. Cup magic is truly gone.
I was not expecting a Marxist analysis of football club ownership but I’m here for it
As an american who is just started getting into european football, nottingham forest has been very fun to watch for me. I love their story, players, and gritty playstyle and coach.
In Premier League EVERYBODY Mostly or Does Have This Gritty Play style
And.... THEY SHOULD or Will get Destroyed and Bullied in the League like United and Complacent clubs
City too kinda 😢
football operation at the middle clubs (many of whom are recently ish promoted) is so much better than it ever has been. recruitment & coaching. newcastle, villa, fulham, forest, brighton, brentford, bournemouth is a hilariously strong 'middle class'. would be nice if it stayed like this for seasons & kept united out the top half
See what happens when you can’t just throw a dump truck full of money at high end talent?
@@martinwhiteii6971 Quite promising really, although it seems the bottom teams are going through a very samey-same situation.
Haven't said it before, but cheers for keeping my entertained on my lunch breaks in work Alfie, love ya stuff
@@ninjabiscuit1095 I also enjoy listening on my ounch breaks
Feel everyone is underestimating Forest. Their history gives them the potential to build a global brand, their owner is a brilliant businessman, they've got a great manager and have (despite the criticism) been extremely effective in the transfer market.
Takk!
There's only so long you can have money carry your success. Whilst it does, other clubs are levelling up in their own ways. Be it savvy transfer market deals or youth developement. The levels of players will eventually level off. What is more important now, over ability appears to be work rate, grit and motivation. Man Utd are a good example of this as they seem much more motivated when they're playing against the bigger clubs, but have very little against smaller clubs. Nottingham Forest clearly have work rate in spades and are incredibly difficult to break down and base their whole game on that (and Chris Wood being absolutely lethal in front of goal so far has definitely helped).
Previous years you'd struggle to see past the top 4 teams being in contention but when you see a club like Leicester win the thing in 2016 you know it's not purely down to having the best players (although they did have a very good team), it's down to a lot more than just that.
Another good example is that the Champions League is still competitive despite most PL clubs spending more on transfers on their own than the other top 3 LEAGUES put together.
In the spirit of Ryuzaki
Day 17 of asking for an in-depth video on Bodø/Glimt, who just recently became champions for the 4th time in 5 years, and who only got promoted back to Eliteserien as recently as 2017
Furthermore, they now regularly compete in Europe, have kept their successful trainer Kjetil Knutsen, and they are on course for a new modern stadium that will replace Aspmyra
I will keep this going Alfie
Expect to see me in your dreams ✨️
Cheers! 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
Well done Alfie 👏 always good and balanced opinions and entertaining 👍😎 UTV
I think it has been mixed up due to the inconsistency of VAR giving things one game , then a different one the next. Then there is the amount of money that’s involved nowadays.
“Wow look at how well Forest are doing. The premier league is healing guys!”
*meanwhile the three promoted teams are right at the bottom and would all be in the relegation zone if Wolves weren’t such a massive mess right now*
No it isn't. Forest are an anomaly currently and will fall down the table.
People like you said the same about Villa last season and Newcastle the season before that, yet both teams kept their form and qualified for UCL. I think Forest will do the same.
@@mnm5165 do you have any evidence that I said this? Villa were significantly better than Forest are currently, as were Newcastle the season before. 6th will still be a great season for Forest.
Different teams, but this "anomaly" been happening 3 years in a row. So, yes it is a sign.
@@listeymate, I know English is hard but I clearly said “people LIKE you” not you specifically. And no matter what your opinion is on Forest, Villa or Newcastle, the fact is that people were counting them out and assumed they’d fall back down to mid table at the end of the season. But they didn’t. I believe this season is Forests turn, I have no reason to believe they will not finish in the top 4 based on the way they’ve been playing
I'm not sure they will, but it's an anomaly in the way that Stuttgart were last season in the Bundesliga. A great season, but in the summer they'll see their best players snapped up by bigger clubs and will regress
I think on a match to match basis it's usually quite unpredictable but at the end of the season it ends how you expected it
Video idea: Why 21-22 promoted teams are much better than other seasons' pronoted sides
Hull City just signed Amrabat. I feel like that might be a video in itself.
Hey alfie, I think u should make a video about luxury players who has a unique and hard-to-optimise profile or skillset that can only flourish in a system that suits them or completely built around them but flops outside of it. My first thought was Joao Felix, who isnt a striker, a false 9, a second striker, an attacking midfield nor a winger, he is a mixture of all. He has tremendous talent yet so hard to use, many teams have failed to blend him into their XI and get the best out of him, only Benfica succeeded to do so.
happiness washed over me again as I saw my favourite internet creator Hit See Stevens uploaded one of his classic video essays
Can you do a "What On Earth" video about Tottenham? One of the most expensive squads in the Premier League, but currently just eight points from relegation and with almost an entire starting XI out injured, and having lost more games than Ipswich.
The solution is simple. Clubs in Europe complain about competing in the 2 domestic cups and play weak teams. Therefore they don't play in the league cup. Since a European slot is at stake you would see a different team in Europe every season and therefore shared European revenue. A trophy available for mid table prem teams. And reduced injuries from playing too many games.
PSR is designed (wether purposefully or not ) to keep promoted and so called lesser clubs down and the Big 6 dominating.
Premier League clubs basically get 1000 times more money for tv revenue than Championship clubs
Given it looks like the three promoted teams will all be heading straight back down for the second year in a row, I wouldn’t be too hasty
Arsenal is BY FAR the best . . . at finishing 2nd. Seriously, they're REALLY good at it. They even finished 2nd on that guy's shirt. 8:44
I say yes because in my simulation, Leicester City won the Premier League again, snatching it from a hopeful Liverpool, Mr. Miyamura gets touted the best Japanese player EVER and Brighton and Hove Albion make it to the Champions League alongside Leicester.
Oh, to top off a crazy season, the same player that won ALL of the Player of the Month awards for the Premier League for Leicester City moved to Dortmund and proceeded to dominate there as well.
Title, this season aside, is usually boring and predictable but theres 6 to 8 teams that can easily finish anywhere from 3rd to 10th and you cant call it. One team is flying, loses form and another picks up form. Last 3 seasons theres been 3 teams that have consistently maintained that form. Newcastle 3 years ago, villa last year and this season is forest. Might be boring at the top but it aint boring beneath them
Delusion
Honestly, I think the Italians may be building something great in Serie A since Juventus stopped being dominant. Both ends of the table look like they have what it takes to go down to the wire.
Football is healing. Had City continued their dominance for the last 4 years then we could say the Premier League is the new Ligue 1. The fact Serie A has the tightest title race in years with Napoli, Inter Milan and Atalanta involved and Atletico Madrid leading La Liga, football is healing one again.
The premier league will never be ligue 1 for the same reason the bundesliga can't be
Outside of the winner they've always been very competitive
it's just a happenstance. It'll go back to being "boring" soon enough
I’d say Serie A has been healed for a while now, ever since the Juventus dynasty went to an end. The real shock is clubs like Napoli and Atalanta actually winning things. Also, Roma won the UECL, don’t forget that.
That was Trevor Senior. I just saw Trevor Senior. Good man.
A great video 📸
No matter which way you spin the rules, there will always be some sort of elite dominating. Robert Michels' "Iron Law of Oligarchy" cannot be escaped.
It's a long way from becoming unpredictable. Forest are doing well at the moment, but it's likely nothing more than good form. At the most, maybe they'll do an Aston Villa and be top 6 for a few seasons. City have been relatively poor this year, but I still think they'll finish second and will be best placed to take over at the top again next season.
As for bottom 3, it's never been more predictable.
I think we will look back at this season like we did with the Leicester win, an outlier that we will talk about for years to come. “Remember when the top six wasn’t the same that one year? That was nice.”
19/20 Leicester finished 5th
20/21 Leicester finished 5th, West ham finished 6th
22/23 Newcastle finished 4th, Brighton finished 6th
23/24 Aston villa finished 4th
What happened to Forest this season is a one-season wonder things. Treat like what Stuttgart, Girona, and Brest did the last season in their domestic campaigns or (for the case of the Premier League) Aston Villa, Newcastle United, or Brighton. Once the next summer's transfer is coming out, some key players will leave to bigger clubs (like Bologna giving up both Zirkzee and Calafiori to the Premier League clubs or Girona losing their La Liga top goalscorer Dovbyk to Roma) and that questionable club will return back to its usual inconsistency form.
I don't really feel like it happened with Newcastle, Brighton and Villa though. They're still good teams. Possibly they will all get Europe this year, and Newcastle look on course for UCL right now. That's why the Premier League is different. You can still keep up, because you actually get the money to replace outgoing players, like Villa did with Grealish for instance.
Forest have spent a fxxking fortune and are still just parking the bus. Parking it with a certain style but…
I mean, you have Forest & Newcastle where you’d expect Tottenham & Man United to be, and you have Tottenham & Man United where you’d expect Forest & Newcastle to be
Otherwise the remaining 4 of the “Big 6” are where you’d expect- In the Top 6
Day 8 of asking for the top 7 best Uruguayan footballers of all time, and i wont give up
gap between PL as closed a little.. but the gap between the PL and Championship has grown a metric amount... Feels like every season now that the promoted teams will just go down every season.
Blame the parachute payments. If you get rid of those, I think the second tier will be more competitive and the yo yo clubs could lose their yo yo status. Even if there’s still insane spending to get to the top flight.
It's a phenomenon we will see maybe once every 10 years or so now, like Leicester winning the Premier League or Bayer Leverkusen winning the Bundesliga.
You need some graphics to show the figures you talk about. I can't keep track of all the numbers without seeing them.
Here's the thing, while at the top half of the table it's becoming more unpredictable, on the lower the end the bottom three teams right now, are the 3 teams promoted from last season. Southampton are already down, it would take a miracle for them to survive. Leicester and Ipswich do seem to have a better chance in theory, with Everton and Wolves both struggling above them. But the fact remains that as of right now, we are set to have two seasons in a row where the 3 promoted teams are the ones going down. Which is definitely a bad sign for the health of the league system, the fact that the Premier League and Championship gulf is growing bigger
And 2 of the 4 teams who went down looking likley to go back up
It would be neat to se a video from you about Denis Law, recently deceased. Thank you for taking it under consideration (or not, of course).
Doncaster Rovers are coming for you !!!!
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a big six team get relegated in the next few years. Seems to be a repeat of history with a lot of the large bundesliga clubs going down.
I predicted NF, EVE and WOL would go down this season. It’s nice to see the unpredictability of the PL come back
No those are just awful predictions 😭
@@TOlp-oe3fpI’m glad someone told him 😂 dreadful prediction honestly. I understand thinking Forest will go down due to them being so close last season, but did this guy seriously think that Southampton would stay up 😭
I think that the owner of city legitimately loves his team, but it would be like asking a president to go watch a game in another country at the drop of a hat.
I only got into football this season, but I decided to go for Nottingham just so I can be annoying to my friend who loves Liverpool because we just beat them. We are doing extremely well and I made a good choice, and we even tied the rematch between Liverpool and us. The crazy thing is, I had to go for 30 seconds during the match to do something and the second I left Liverpool scored.
They might be a one season Wonder. Good luck with the rest of your sporting media life because you are about to go through a lot of pain .
@@badyoutuber1986 I really doubt it, everybody has contently been saying the whole season Nottingham is gonna loose steam and fall back but it hasent happened.
It’s becoming more like the Bundesliga in terms of teams in random positions
One season I'd doubt it. Let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet.
I don’t buy the argument that the prem was more unpredictable before American owners. Same five teams have won nearly everything in last 50 years. Since 2010 when Americans really started to buy teams, there’s been 5 prem winners. The previous 15 years before that there were 3
1.20
"Forest and Everton have been punished with points deductions for breaching Profit And Sustainability rules"
Manchester City, meanwhile, have WAY more breaches than those two clubs combined. Points deducted? O
You can whatever you want about American sports,but they do sports better than Europeans.the NFL and NBA are great example.
No, and I'll tell you why I think this. Because all that we're seeing is the big 4 becoming a big 6 becoming a big 10 and it may even eventually get to being the big 17-23.
There's so much money in the EPL that you're going to have world class players joining mid table clubs and helping push them on. But the gap between the EPL and the championship is already massive and it having the same teams rotate in and out is a bit crap.
Not only that but it also damages prospects for young English players.
What the prem needs, last few seasons have been boring. When United was winning the 90’s, the drama every week was top notch. Today’s era is machines constantly winning & where’s the joy in that. Forest Newcastle & Villa once being top clubs who’s gone through their own struggles is making name this season. May it long continue & one day have my Oxford United in the Premier League
Now that I think about it, the 90s and 2000s was a great time because all the best clubs had great teams and coaches (with the exception of Liverpool, though they tried). Maybe the #BarclaysMen were onto something.
I much prefer the post Fergus utd are hilariously incompetent drama personally
You were younger and more easily influenced.
@@martinwhiteii6971Alfie has a video on the Barclays prem era.
Spurs making more money than arsenal has always been wild to me
Why? Their stadium is used for huge NFL games, rugby, concerts and has much better corporate facilities