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Originally Posted by Locke
every time an English team is in for a player they're paying £7+M more in transfer fees?
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of course, that's just the price they have to pay for the TV deal. I remember van Gaal and Woodward this summer when both basically said "when United want to sign a player, the other club increases the price significantly just because it's United". And that's going to be something that all PL clubs will have to deal with in the future ... other clubs know that the English clubs have a lot of money and therefore they'll ask for more. That's why I always have to laugh when the smaller German clubs moan about the financial power of the PL, when that's actually a huge chance for them. Just look at what Mainz and Hannover have got from Leicester and Stoke for bang average players like Okazaki and Joselu. Crazy stuff.
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Originally Posted by Locke
I do agree that its a cycle, but at the moment you have to wonder when its going to come around because Bayern have been a top club for almost a decade now with Real and Barca even longer than that.
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nah see, this is when perception is skewed by recent results. Bayern didn't even reach the Champions League only 7 years ago and in the Klinsmann era they had terrible players like Oddo, Lell, Ottl ... as starters! They were absolutely slaughtered by Barcelona back then and they weren't even close to being a "top club". That was 6 years ago. England has even had a CL winner and another finalist since then, so the PLs drought in the CL hasn't been that long.