BBZ - why would you compare Barca and Real in times when they were not even challenging for the league?
You seem to say that the reason the team score more now is that there are more foreign players and bigger disparity in money than in the past.
Yet in those same rules should apply to comparing early and late 90s teams to the 2004/05/06 teams. Yet the that 2004/05/06 scored less on average.
The title winning teams of that time were amongst the lowest scoring of last twenty years so to compare them to the highest scoring of course there will be a big difference.
Real went from never scoring 83/84 goals before Ronaldo came to never scoring under 102 with him in team. While Barcas goals jumped by about 25 as soon as Messi came to the fore properly.
It is clear as day how much immediate difference Messi and Ronaldo made. Unless you think La Liga just suddenly got shit over night.
I told you that according to my theory, bigger jump/differences between teams happens since 2004, 2005 and till today.
1991 vs 2004 as you ask, yes, teams were slightly richer in 2004 compared to their opponents than in 1994, but the biggest jump happened after that, which can be seen in a 2-horse race since 2005, and in more and more goals after a few years.
Anyway, I see that this argument how Barca and Real are scoring a lot because we have Messi and Cr7 doesn't go away, well, let's go to another country with a similar problem, Germany.
Who is their Messi? Mukker (Muller, lol)?
-- look at Bayern's goals in this century, how they were slightly raising over the years
Bundesliga, Bayern's league goals in this century:
2014: 94 goals
2013: 98 goals
2012: 77
2011: 81
2010: 72
2009: 71
2008: 68
2007: 55
2006: 67
2005: 75
2004: 70
2003: 70
2002: 65
2001: 62
2000: 73
-- from 2000 to 2010, the highest Bayern's numbers were: 75, 72, 71, 70 and 70
-- what happened in the last few years (in the same moment when Messi and Ronaldo also "exploded")?
= Bayern also exploded, lol
-- from a team who never managed to pass 75 Goals in 34 rounds (they are playing 4 games less than La liga teams), they jumped to:
= 81, 77, 98 and 94 in the last 4-5 years
-- so, each of the last 5 (4 Seasons plus the current one) Seasons had more Goals than ANY season from years 2000-2010.
-- this Season, Bayern is already at 77 Goals after 30 matches and since they are scoring around 2,5 Goals per match, let's say that they will score 8-10 goals till the end of the Season, and so, they will be at 85-87 goals again this Season
So, Barca's and Real's goals exploded in the last 5-6 Seasons.
People reply that it is because Messi and CR7 are too good.
But in the same time, Bayern's goals, without Messi and CR7 are improving more or less in the same ratio as Goals from Messi/CR7/Barca and Real.
So, I think that my question is perfectly reasonable:
= are we scoring more goals because of Messi and Ronaldo, or (as I am claiming), because in some countries rich just became too rich and they are way stronger than their league opponents than 5-10 Seasons ago, and this is why they are not winning 2:0 anymore, but more often 3:0 and 4:0
-- and because of that, the whole team, or some players are scoring more and more goals
Some may conclude from those goals that those players are just extreme goats.
Some others will say that those players are good, but not that good, and that more or less, even some other players on their place would score similar amounts of goals in those leagues were 1-2 top clubs are way richer/stronger than the opponents.
So, do you (or anyone) have an explanation why the same scenario is happening both in Spain and Germany?
Who is their Messi/Cr7 who is responsible for more Goals? Mukker, Mandzukic?
) even if he scores a lot. 