More money could mean inflation. The player you could get in the early 2000s for roughly 5 mio pounds you get for 25 mios today (remember Southampton => Liverpool/Utd saga). While it might be true middle/bottom teams from say Germany can't compete with English teams in temrs of spending, they will be encouraged either to develop youngsters (which they already do) => beneficial long term to both Ger national team and league or scouting departments (which already are developped). As for the top spots / Champions league places, Bayern currently has a mile ahead any english team in terms of pulling power. World class players wont join Aston Villa.

i cannot see good arguments.
what you are getting with your post? sure liverpool is disappointed.. but as i said.. image a 2:0 leading --> different game.. there was a clear penalty not given.. so your ''argument'' is dissolved in air.. but lets stoop to your level.. liverpool won 3:0 at home against the fourth best spanish team.. (what an argument)
in generell... why would you spend power into the el if you can get more money by winning league games? its ironic.
its also hard to get or defend a cl spot in england.. look at manu or chelsea.. even mancity needs to qualify.. this means that you need alot more power to defend or get a cl spot than years ago.

one more argument @fender

again resorting to "imagine" arguments to make your point... imagine the ref hadn't fucked dortmund in the first game, imagine they had scored the 3:0 in the 2nd leg... you base your actual evaluation of a whole league ("poor") on hypothetic scenarios when all the actual evidence proves you wrong...

i already showed you how the whole "didn't care at all, fielded a youth squad" excuse is a myth too (btw, this "theory" completely ignores the fact that 2nd row players would be extra motivated to do well, showing the manager they belong in the 1st team)...
if that theory was true, teams like liverpool / tottenham would not have played all / most of their important players - but they did...

also, here are some reasons for "spending power" in el: for the title (i know it's hard to remember that these days but titles and trophies are the ultimate goals of football teams!), the prestige, the extra money (if you think football is just about amassing wealth for the club), the cl spot, the 5 year rating of your league which indirectly improves your chance of playing cl... there are plenty of reasons - at least when you're trying to be fair and not just trying to somehow "justify" an idiotic blanket statement...

as i said.. dortmund deserved to win.. but it was a long time ago..dortmund dominated 90% of both games.. but it also means that english teams give a fuck.. look at tottenham against dortmund.
have you ever played football? nope right? you need to play with mostly your a team even if you gonna loose.. if not they will never become a good attuned team.. you can see this very often.. for exaple in
group stages when teams already are out and there are 2 games left.. they will play with their a squad mostly.

sure.. but in england there are much more chances to get a title.. in spain no.. every title goes to real barca or atletico.. the el is most likely the only chance to get a title or reputation for other spanish teams.

This post was edited by Dachschaden on May 28 2016 01:45am

i played in verbandsliga (which WAS the 5th highest league back then, now it's 6th). i don't know if you have ever played in a real team (or how this is relevant to the points i made or the baseless theories you are spreading for that matter) but since you asked...
also, learn to read please: