The Portuguese league may have become quite strong after all. Especially in the width at the top. This week Sporting Braga managed to eliminate Arsenal and Benfica is among the best 8 in the CL and was also successful last year. Benfica, Porto and Sporting challenge each other in the competition, but apart from that, the competition is quite weak. There is little challenge in it. It is striking that the difference in level is so large with the Spanish competition. And I mean from 4th place to last place. Maybe it has to do with the fact that there is much more money in football in Spain? And then we also have to think about sponsors, etc. of course.
Years ago I also questioned myself about this, I've never been to Portugal, although my country was colonized by Portugal, but looking at the teams in Portugal:
1 -
Benfica = they have a lot of fans, and when they play the stadium has a lot of fans, and a team that gets good young players for a cheap price and sells for a very high price, so it makes profits. it's hard to compete with benfica
2 -
Porto = there are many fans, and when there is a game their stadium has many fans, they also get good players cheaply and sell and thus make profits
3 -
Sporting = and a team that had Portuguese players with great talent, no doubt that sporting managed to have many good Portuguese players, just to give an example: Luís Figo
and cristiano ronaldo started in sporting, they have many fans, but not as many as porto and benfica
4 -
braga = not many fans compared to benfica, porto and sporting and they don't sell players for high prices
By that I mean that these 3 teams have more money, the other teams don't have a lot of money and it's difficult for them to win the Portuguese league, without a lot of money they can't hire good players