They do, it's just that our media in this country are bias and you don't ever hear of the media saying how huge foreign clubs like the Spanish clubs are around the world.
Real Madrid is by far this biggest club in the world.
Don't get me wrong, our big four clubs are huge, they make up four of the top six biggest clubs in the world, along with Barcelona, but they are not as big as Real Madrid.
It pains me to say that a Spanish club is bigger and better than an English one, but it's the truth.
No, it's not. They have little to no influence in the biggest market in this world, Far East. They watch English football much more than Spanish due to the huge TV revenues. We know for a fact that English clubs make 3-5x more than Spanish clubs from TV because it was on SSN (:P). I'm not saying Real Madrid aren't better, they aren't bigger. When they were in money troubles they were helped by their local council, not from revenue. They get their money from councils and government, English clubs don't.
Thank God. Get those yanks out, they come to club deposit all their debt so we can't buy any players, I mean look how much we got for Ronaldo and who do we replace him with.. 10 a penny Michael Owen who isn't even on a wage.
See what I mean? SSN are bias, the English media are bias. It is true that the Premier League dominate the Asian market, but just because we dominate that doesn't mean that Spanish clubs can't dominate other big markets around the world, including the second biggest market - that of the USA. I'm not saying the Spanish league is any better than that of the Premier League, which is what you're getting at, I'm simply saying Real Madrid are the biggest club in the world, and because of that, are catching up with the Premier League in terms of being the best.
Also, in the next few years the Italian league is going to be using a system identical to ours (Thanks to Sky Italia, the sister company of BSkyB (Sky UK)), where all TV rights sales get split up between all Premier League clubs, which could actually see the Premier League be toppled from the biggest league in the world, by that of Seria A.
they have overtaken in terms of quality, spanish clubs are better than english clubs as much as it pains me to say. USA has hardly any appeal for football, spanish nor english clubs have cracked that market and if one of them do then yeah they'll be the biggest club but i don't see that happening any time soon.
Wolves, your saying because of Real Madrid, (One single team) they will dominate America. America don't care for football or 'Soccer', they are nationalists and have their own football league, so they would sooner support that then the Spanish one.
America do their own thing in terms of Sports. Give the players guns and have them playing over an oil field, then its a different story.
You'd be amazed, the USA have three main broadcasters, Fox Soccer Channel, Setanta US, and ESPN, which broadcast every single Premier League game live. The Premier League has cracked the US market, however it soon to be overtaken by that of La Liga.
It remains to be seen whether the Spanish League has overtaken the English, guess we will see later on in the Champions League, which I think will be interesting, as I expect Chelsea to win it, with MU giving it a good go.
All I'm saying is
- The Spanish have the biggest club in the world and the second best league in the world
- The English have the best league in the world and the second biggest club in the world.
I know which I'd rather play in. :P
@TaffTalk, read my other posts, from the other page, before jumping in with ridiculous statements. The Americans, believe it or not, do have a interest in 'soccer', it's just that they're stereotyped.
And I'm not saying that at all.
I'll just agree to disagree Wolves on British football cracking America (I dont think we've come close, hence why Beckham is training with AC Milan).
On Britain being the best league however, I totally agree with you there :P
The English have the biggest club and league. Spain probably will dominate in the years to come. At the present time - they don't. We don't need to explain Far East, all football fans know about that and as you just showed premier league has a bigger influence in America and the biggest club in the PL is Manchester United. Whether, that'll be the case for years to come remains to be seen.
La Liga wont EVER topple the Premier League, Seria A in years will come closer as Sky (the Italian version) know what they're doing and have learned from what BSkyB did with the Premier League.
MU will always be the biggest club in terms of being popular in Asia. But at the moment is not the biggest club in the world.