Regardless of the winner, there are more than enough reasons to believe that 2018-19 will add to the recent list of glowing examples of the Premier League’s boundaries being constantly stretched.
When Manchester City won the 2017- 18 Premier League title in record-breaking fashion — most points (100), most goals scored (106) and most wins (32) — fans and pundits were quick to proclaim Pep Guardiola’s side as the best seen in the League’s history.
But interestingly, it also provided ammunition to those who were waiting to pick holes in the argument that the English league was the most competitive in the world. Manchester United, which finished second, was 19 points behind, a state of affairs eerily similar to those in France and Germany, where Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich have routinely pummelled opposition, resulting in one-horse races.
But such an assessment is slightly off the mark. In business jargon, what happened last season can be compared to ‘Market Correction’, which is explained as a rapid change in the nominal price of a commodity after a barrier to free trade has been removed and the free market establishes a new equilibrium price. With the Premier League awash with more money than ever before — six of the 10 richest clubs in the world are premier league outfits — the 95-100 point bracket appears the new equilibrium.
この記事は Sportstar の April 20, 2019 版に掲載されています。
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