Premier League leads the way in rich league

This is because the English Premier League is the closest thing you'll find to an American sports league in European soccer. A big TV contract deal, sharing those TV revenues equally with all the teams (unlike in Serie A, where it's every team for itself when it comes to broadcasting), this league understands the economic forces that drive it. get rid of the promotion and relegation system and throw in a postseason championship for the league championship and this looks a lot like the American NFL, the richest pro sports league in the world.

The irony is that in Europe the big money kills football instead of making it more popular. 30 years ago the european leagues relied on 90+% local players. Now the majority are foreigners, which means that the more the money poured into a league, the less popular the game is among the local kids.

Foreign money...Foreign players...Lucrative TV deals, and grass roots suffering. Rich clubs get richer, the poor continue to dwindle. Sad state of affairs really. They should change the max of 3 internationals per team on the pitch at once, unfortunately, EU kind of screws that up.