La Liga ‘should be more competitive’

MADRID – Barcelona want to seek ways to make La Liga more competitive so that other teams apart from themselves and Real Madrid have a chance of winning the title, president Sandro Rosell said this week.

Friday, September 21, 2012

MADRID – Barcelona want to seek ways to make La Liga more competitive so that other teams apart from themselves and Real Madrid have a chance of winning the title, president Sandro Rosell said this week.Speaking to Reuters at an event in Brussels, Rosell agreed that a league in which the big two, the world’s richest clubs by income, were not always so dominant would be more compelling."No no it’s something I fully agree with,” Rosell said when asked if it would not be better to follow the English Premier League model, where three or four teams scrap for the title and the top dogs slip up against lesser sides much more regularly."We have to sit down with the Spanish teams and look for solutions on that yes, I agree,” he added.One of the reasons for the dominance of Barca and Real in their domestic league is their stranglehold over income from audiovisual rights.There is no system of collective bargaining and revenue sharing like in other European leagues and they take about half of the total pot of around 600 million euros ($788.22 million).