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Financial advantage
We must dwell upon the first point in this case, that is the fact that Premier League is far more popular than the La Liga. The revamp in 1991 has been done to some good measure that the Premier League is higher up the popularity scale than its counterparts in Europe.
For a cumulative look, according to football-marketing.com’s data in 2011, every La Liga averaged 2.2 million viewers while each Premier League match averaged 12 million viewers. This massive difference makes the Premier League as the template for its European counterparts on a revenue-earning basis. The Premier League supposed audience is a staggering 4.7 billion people from 212 countries. The La Liga has the better players because of their reputation and importance on the football, a quality that has attracted the players rather than the business tycoons. Apart from the El Clasico, the amount of non-Spanish population watching the games is significantly low.
On the contrary, up to teams such as Southampton and Newcastle, the Premier League has a worldwide audience. La Liga’s technical and tactical methods have no effect on this front, and the lack of challenge makes it a boring league. Whereas, games in the Premier League are exciting to watch with a high pace and the use of physicality means there are a lot of heated moments.
Another important point is the commentary, where Spain lags behind. The world around is ready to listen to English and the Premier League commentators are very good, if not excellent. Although Andy Gray’s above statement was a grave blunder, the Premier League commentators make the game as exciting as possible. However, the Spanish commentary for a La Liga match turns down people and the English one is bland.
There is a huge difference in quality of commentary. While it may not seem a big point, commentary is something that attaches people to the match. Spain does not have a coherent structure for selling the TV rights. Every club has to make do individually, which means that apart from Barcelona and Real Madrid, all the clubs have a lesser turnover. Even when you look at that, the collective turnover of the Premier League, which is done wholly, amounts to a $748m that dwarfs the La Liga’s, which is just $206m.
With such huge a difference and two fan-owned clubs being taken in the Premier League, it may take time for them to bode with the financial nous of the Premier League(https://www.sportskeeda.com/football/deal-with-the-devils-manchester-united-and-adidas-glazers-debts/). The amount of advertising and promotion is far higher and their club has a better reach. For a Real Madrid or Barcelona that already comes among the richest clubs in the world, the Premier League only adds to it.
While these may stagger the immediate production of results, once they are familiar, the Premier League would prove a big advantage to them. Their already large budget would be massively increased, not to mention their fan bases. A Leo Messi playing in the Premier League reaches the world over and is a massive crowd-puller.
Conditions and fixtures
The one thing Spanish clubs lack in this situation is familiarity. The English conditions are quite extreme compared to Spain. The winter is very harsh in England. The Spanish clubs mainly contain players from Spain, South America and Central Europe. These regions do not experience the kind of weather than England does.
The Premier League players have been used to the conditions over the past seasons. This definitely gives them an advantage during the 2-month period including post-winter recuperations. Especially, the Premier League has a tight schedule in December while Spain has a break at that time.
This would certainly result in a lot of fatigue. While not only this, there is an additional trophy in England that the clubs have to play for; CapitalOne Cup. This nearly makes it an additional 6 matches for them. Taking in all these factors along with the more lenient refereeing in Premier League, Real Madrid and Barcelona would never have it easy in the Premier league. It would be a great challenge to them to perform initially. Surely, they would need at least two years to get used to the Premier League.
Overall possibilities
Teams in the Premier League do not have the flexibility to adapt to changing situations. Their goals are based on a fixed principle and that is to win a match.
One hardly even concentrates on the multiple stages involved in achieving the result. With Barcelona and Real Madrid, we have two contrasting teams who are the best in their style of play. Seeing their necessity to adapt, their results will take time.
However, we can be sure of one thing, once they do get used, they will prosper. While they may make up a Champions League finish in the first two seasons, from the third, they shall be direct contenders for the title and most likely, one shall go away with the crown leaving the others mixed up in the bag.
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