Which is not at all surprising when you see the money involved in the PL compared to any other league. Aside from Real, Barcelona, Bayern and PSG, the PL clubs should absolutely be the leaders in latter stage CL football and European football overall tbh.
That's true.
I might be an old fecker, but I for one really miss the 90s/early 00s in terms of football parity.
You had a lot of interesting domestic leagues and a huge pool of teams that contended for the CL.
Nowadays it's really just the PL due to their sugar daddy money (not trying to be disrespectful, just telling how it is) and a handful of old giants (+ PSG) that manage to hang in there for now.
In order to do so they all had to kill their domestic leagues though. Bayern in Germany, Real/Barca in Spain, PSG in France.
You just have to take a look at the CL contenders: For over a decade now it has always been Real, Bayern and City.
A few years back you had Barca, too, and recently you could add Liverpool and PSG and then occasionally some outsiders on a good run that season (Atletico, Dortmund, Tottenham, Chelsea, Inter, Juve).
All in all it's just the same core of 5-6 teams each season though and it has been like that for 10+ years now.
For an international competition that lack of fresh air/change is just nonsense.
What are you on about? Ranting about something completely unrelated to my post.