My simplistic reasoning for this, is contracts

Loyalty is forced on players in La Liga. If a club says you're staying and honouring your contract, you have to.

Otherwise the Spanish FA sanction fifa, and players get banned internationally, and also if breach contract in Spain, I think you have to pay back wages you've earnt from the past

It sort of forces players to unite because there's no other real power vacuum. Once a player is forced into staying, they often settle and become fans favourites. That's why you hear a lot of stories in spain about players who've been here or there for 8-10 seasons

The English league would massively improve in standard or general stability if contracts were tied with strict fifa punishments to em

Collymore learnt that after walking out on Oviedo, and effectively ended his career regardless of claiming he'd retired

Posted By: pants on November 22nd 2010 at 12:57:41

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Interesting article on La Liga. Amazing stats. (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:16:00
- If Manchester United and Chelsea had the players Real Madrid and Barcelona do (NCFC) - Brandonio, Nov 22, 15:12:06
- i'm liking the stats jafski.... (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Nov 22, 12:23:03
  - I was going to make a comparison to the Tennants Shortbread Heroin Tartan McPremiership (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 22, 12:27:34
    - why.........? (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Nov 22, 12:29:00
      - Well, outside of the top two, you actually get fans at Spanish games. (NCFC) - Arizona Bay, Nov 22, 12:31:09
        
        True. ALso their other teams are decent, like Athletico winning the UEFA last year. (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:32:02
        
        Guardiola raised the bar with the current Barca team. Real (I think) (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 12:39:32
        
        Why aren't they challenged more, are they both that much better? (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:41:56
        
        Power I think (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 12:48:05
        
        It's a shame because I think it's a better style of football on display in their league. (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:50:49
        
        My simplistic reasoning for this, is contracts (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 12:57:41
        
        This thread is hilarious (NCFC) - Old Git, Nov 22, 13:01:37
        
        Not at all. We're just having a discussion. I didn't want to start it off not because of (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 13:04:43
        
        Whether or not I'm totally right or wrong about the contract/loyalty thing (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 13:29:07
    - I think La Liga has better quality throughout thatn jockland. But the gap is wide, just th (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:28:25
      - If Scottish players were good enough for La Liga, they'd be playing there (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 12:34:12
        
        Yep, the overall standard is streets ahead of the scotch league. (n/m) (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:36:48
        
        I think what's happening in Scotland is good for their game (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 12:42:02
        
        It's very poorly supported in the main. Another reason why they want to join the prem. (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:47:49
        
        I'd hate it (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 12:49:37
        
        I think it's all going to financially implode in the not too distant and we'll go back to (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:51:40
  - Seems like it's only going to get worse too (NCFC) - yarmyyarmy, Nov 22, 12:25:10
    - Was going to mention this, but I don't really know how the tv deal in spain is distributed (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 12:31:28
      - I think that's what we do right in the prem, the TV money is fairly split. (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:34:02
        
        In a digital era. I really think it's time to blow the whole thing open (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 13:32:33
        
        Trouble is tho that Man U's legions of fans would enable them to earn a bigger slice of (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 13:33:53
        
        Oh true yeah (NCFC) - pants, Nov 22, 13:44:30
    - Aren't both Real Madrid and Barcelona in horrendous amounts of debt too. (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:26:21
  - True, bit like the Prem, it's close at the moment but will either be Man U or Chelski. (NCFC) - jafski, Nov 22, 12:25:08

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