where they discussed this. And when those EPL teams go up against the continental giants that have open play quality that they've lost due to the EPL scrum, they get killed by the quality in open play. Plus the Champs League refs don't let them push and shove in the box like they do in the EPL. Essentially, the way the EPL is going and scoring via set plays is hurting them in European competition. The EPL teams have to have deeper squads to deal with the grind nature of the EPL so they spend way more money but it is spread over their entire squad. Continental teams don't need to do that and don't need the depth to make it and therefore can buy those elite 100M euro players.