Chelsea and Manchester United are making moves that will tear the 'Big Six' apart

After that exhausting season that Tottenham, Manchester City and Liverpool endured, few would have not expected the Reds to carry on in the same fashion. But somehow, despite playing well over 60 odd games and winning the Club World Cup, Liverpool have a Premier League title. After nearly 30 years of troubles, mockery, and hate, the Reds can put an end to one of English football’s most infamous jokes. Yet, the way that the Reds dominated, and tore apart the league brings about serious problems for the rest despite it being a transitional period for many.

But that’s the state of the Premier League and even that might change going forward with the coronavirus pandemic playing a helping hand in making that happen. Liverpool’s title has changed the course of the league but they, along with City, have the team and the might to help them still change things about. Even if Liverpool couldn’t afford Timo Werner with all the bells and whistles or even if Manchester City might not have the spending power they showcased in the decade of the 2010s. The Reds have placed a beyond impressive squad at Jurgen Klopp’s disposal with them all at or around their peak. Now while there are questions as to how exhausted the players might be after what has been a loooong three years at the top of the pile, this is still a fantastic Liverpool side. Few would argue against that especially after the way Mohamed Salah emphatically proved his critics wrong. 

That has always been the norm across the years with football teams following the same, which is why the world has seen a change in formations, teams and the way roles have been played over the years. It’s why Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City dominated but the moment they stopped trying to keep moving forward, Liverpool caught up and did their business. Chelsea and Manchester United have realised that which is why they’re already in the first-stages of a rebuild. Arsenal and Tottenham haven’t. And that is why they’re still stuck well beyond the aforementioned quartet.

Tottenham might be in a slightly worse situation than Arsenal thanks to their stadium debt and the loan that the club has taken out but the Gunners are hampered just as badly. It’s why with Chelsea and Manchester United in the middle of a rebuild, they’re making moves that will split open the ‘Big six” into a ‘Big Four’. The sheer move and then spending £100 odd million, across five years, for Timo Werner, proves that for the Blues, while United have £90 million sitting in the bank alongside income from various other sources. Add that to the fact that neither Arsenal nor Tottenham will finish in a top four place, simply adds to their problems.

Because if Arsenal have been operating a Champions League wage budget on Europa League money then Tottenham sail in the same boat. It will effectively transform the way both Mikel Arteta and Jose Mourinho will be forced to manage their sides with both managers potentially looking at a future where they’d be lucky to get one £30 million signing even on amortization. That goes from a probability to a possibility especially if Leicester City make their way into the Champions League for next year.

That looks like a possibility with both sides on the right track under the tutelage of managers that want nothing more than the best for the club and not themselves. Yet as Leicester City, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, Newcastle United and a few others have proved, miracles do happen.