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The current Premier League TV fee is split between three parts: half is paid equally to 20 clubs, a quarter based on league rankings and another quarter based on the number of appearances on the TV. In this way, although the top team still divides up to twice the money of the relegation team, even the bottom team in the relegation such as Derby County can still earn more than a thousand pounds in broadcast fee income. And even if relegated, the Premier League has a parachute system, so that the relegated teams still have a chance to turn over.

And La Liga and Serie A are still separate TV contracts negotiated by each club, making it more and more difficult for small and medium-sized clubs financially. Last season, Sevilla FC also broke down in negotiations on a broadcast contract, and there were no live broadcasts of several consecutive matches, which made the club suffer a lot of financial losses. Teams outside Serie A's top three get equally little from broadcast fees. Milan, Inter and Juve have a monopoly on televising, negotiating lucrative contracts with the TV station alone, while the remaining poor teams are at a disadvantage in the negotiations, unable to sustain the team's expenses with their meager income, so they have to sell players to survive. Even in Ligue 1, Lyon and Ajaccio had a budget gap of up to seven times in 2005.

The Premier League has been active in the transfer market in recent years, particularly leading other leagues in terms of spending money, and they continued to lead last summer. Liverpool sold 36 million euros to buy European champion Torres, although the price is the same as Robben, but after a season, the value for money is high and low. Torres contributed 33 goals in a single season, and broke the record set by Van Nistelrooy in his 2001/02 season for goals in his debut season with 24 league goals, while Robben only scored 5 goals in the entire season, although the two are in different positions, but the contribution to the team Peter Pan Netherlands is still difficult to compare with the Spanish Golden Boy; Nowadays, there is money to spend, and the Premier League is obviously better than La Liga in this regard.

According to the estimate on the German transfer market website, the total price of Premier League players is around 2,884.3 million euros, and the total price of La Liga players in second place is 420 million less than that of the Premier League. Last summer, the Premier League's total expenditure on transfers reached 640 million euros, 140 million more than La Liga. And unlike La Liga, which relies on Real Madrid (23.6%) to support the façade, in addition to Manchester United and Liverpool, the Premier League is also quite proud in the transfer market. Like Sunderland, chairman Quinn sold Keane €50 million in the transfer market last summer, and Manchester City also sold €66.85 million. According to statistics, 12 clubs spent more than 30 million euros on Premier League buyers last summer, and only three clubs were able to meet this standard in 2006, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham.