The recent conflict between the mentor of English Manchester City Josep Guardiola and the President of the Spanish La Liga Javier Tebas regarding the determination of the most successful vector for the development of domestic competitions gave rise to a rather interesting reason for financial research..

As a result, it turned out that when directly comparing the total income of the teams during the period of uncertainty, which provoked the coronavirus COVID-19 during the 2019/20 season, it was the Spanish financial model that turned out to be more resistant to external factors..

English Premier League clubs posted an alarming € 1.4bn in losses that football year. At the same time, the amount did not include the indicators of Newcastle, whose head, Mike Ashley, simply did not publish the financial report for the quarantine period..

But in La Liga at that moment, things were going, albeit far and not in the best way, but this did not prevent the teams from joint efforts to pull out an exponential profitability of 77 million euros in net profit..

The second division of Spain, Segunda, got a little more serious - 0.2 million euros in losses. But even here the figure of 800 million euros in losses for the Championship looks much more frightening..

In total, the two top Spanish divisions "