Competition in Europe's biggest leagues is being "destroyed" by clubs who have "huge financial power", says Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger.
Frenchman Wenger pointed to examples in France, Germany, England and Spain.
Paris St-Germain are 11 points clear in Ligue 1, Bayern Munich have a 16-point advantage in the Bundesliga and Manchester City are 15 points ahead at the top of the Premier League.
Wenger said it was clear that "unpredictability has gone down".
He added: "When you look at the five big leagues in Europe, in December we already knew four champions.
"That means something is not right in our game. The huge financial power of some clubs is basically destroying the competition."
In Spain, Barcelona have an 11-point lead over Atletico Madrid. Defending champions Real Madrid - suffering a surprisingly difficult season - are 19 points behind Barca in fourth place.
The other league that usually figures in Europe's 'top five' is Italy - where Napoli are a point ahead of Juventus, title winners in the past six seasons.
Frenchman Wenger was speaking two days after transfer spending in the Premier League again reached record levels.
Clubs in England's top flight spent £150m on Wednesday - the closing day of the winter transfer window - taking their outlay for the month to £430m.
AkshayMishra
43
Yea yea! Wenger is sometimes right but if a club has money that doesn’t mean it’s not ethical or something like that! If you have 1 billion to spend its upto you then also!
naedsu
38
I never thought that an experince coach like Wenger would say jokes of that kind. Financial Power? Ha ha ha. which is the top rich club of Primier league! M.United, isn't it? why is not in the top!!! look at Juventus in serie A,look RM in laliga . plenty money doesn't mean good style of play.
Preet_1096
21
I really have nothing to say, pep is a good coach but his Tactics is to buy teams best players to weaken other teams... and he'll go to any price to achieve that
oh really pep's biggest signing is less than 60m and yeh he spent arpund 400m in arpund 2 seasons but city also lost 7 players due to out of contract at the beginning and also why are you saying about pep only. He buys players so what he delivers with them. Mourinho also spent around 420-440m in 2seasons at united go ask him and he is still moaning. Onte spet 360m in the same time span of pep. U all haters have nothing else to Bragg about city then going over city spend a lot first watch ur own clubs how much they spent before pointing a finger on others.
LSuarez9
13
But then again arsene wenger can’t zip a coat up so...😂