I agree, it's all swings and roundabouts.
I mostly remember fiercely competitive title races, with three or even four teams in with a shout in the run-in, hell even the last day teams have won the league from what third? fourth place?
The last decade has been an outlier in terms of having one standout team win the league, head and shoulders above the rest. Maybe with second place snapping at their heels, but for the most part it's been all bark and no bite. For one reason or another they have, so far, been unable to capitalise on any dominance with a changing of the guard.
As others have pointed - there are recent changes that have impacted the league. Contracts, wages and transfer fees have slowed the domestic market. Brexit has slowed youth transfers, but made the league a more attractive proposition to English lower league and Scottish teams. Academies have started to make up the shortfall in domestic movement. Loans and speculation on foreign based player have moved from the periphery to central to most clubs competitiveness, or lack thereof.
Times change. I'm all in favour of not having a procession to the title. Is the league worse off for it? I mean a league where European group stage money means you hoover up all the best players, repeat ad nauseum, isn't great. At the minute we're in the middle of the churn of all the above. As a fan of the league it's equal parts feckin brilliant and frustrating (as a dcfc fan, a bit of a procession would be welcome about now ).
How it all shakes out after remains to be seen. Is money all that matters? Are we going to have a top six with money that's almost impossible to break into? Or a premier division of haves and the have nots in the first. You know like the old days, on a much bigger scale.
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