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To compare with the Premiership, the 'smaller' clubs have wage bills probably a fifth the size of the likes of West Ham and Newcastle, so don't particularly need to be bankrolled to compete. As ASF says on the other thread, there's simply a better pool of players in Spain to pick from, and they can always pick up cheap South American players.

You won't find clubs like Getafe and Recreativo spaffing away 20 million quid on the equivalents of Bramble, Cort and Jenas.More good Spanish players is obviously key.Supply and demand etc.But off the top of my head I thought Valencia spent about 50 m euros in transfer market last season and they along with Seville must pay decent/big money to hold on to their players.Take Kanoute for eg would Portsmouth be offering him say 25k a week, what would be his present deal in Serville Spanish football like the Prem is sold all over the world so I think the tv money they get in is pretty decent, believe clubs in Spain can also sign exclusive tv rights away independently rather than having to sign as part of the league as a whole.

Think IM is correct too work permit regulations are far less stringent and South american players are more willing to move to Spain at younger ages which mean clubs generally don't need to spend much to get a better quality of player...On a football front, the big clubs (Real Barca) are owned by their members and the members can vote out the president. When Abramovich came to Europe he considered buying a club in either Italy, Spain or England.

Italy he saw as too tactical and thus boring, Spain because of the terms of ownership he saw as a bad investment, thus he ended up at Chelsea. UK clubs have shares you can buy and thus are able to go public and be available on the stock market. I do not know of a Spanish club where this is the case. Thus English clubs attract enormous foreign investment which has led to the enormous influx of cash we are now seeing ....."