SgtPepper wrote:Don't delude yourself. The EPL spends 3x over la liga yet has the worst continental title record over the last 13 years at both league and international level compared to Spain and Germany. The fact that most of the UEL's were sweeps by Sevilla in the last decade over megaspenders like Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool speak to the incompetence of your league. And in the adult's division the la liga clubs won most of the UCL's in the last decade. Where are those EPL title favorites among the performers in the continental competition? They are more likely than international rivals to actually be in a relegation scrap the following season (hi Man U and Chelsea fans). It is always impressive when Man U actually lives up to potential because for the better part of a decade they were nowhere close. And of course it's impressive because Barca has players like Lewandowski who are much better than players at any EPL club aside from City.
Oh and Atleti's achievements overshadow Leicester's title season because a team poorer than Newcastle won multiple la ligas and made multiple UCL finals. How is the fan experience with the best British coach in charge?
You must be a capitalist as everything in your life revolves around money.
The EPL spend has nothing to do with the fact that the depth of talent in the EPL goes from top to bottom and in spain you have just a couple of teams with the talent.If anything the EPL spend helps Spain and others because they are the countries where the teams are ripping off EPL teams for average talent that they would never spend that amount on themselves.
The reason EPL teams don't further dominate european competitions is 3-fold. Firstly the priority of an EPL team is to win the Prem league where every game is a tough game and every opposition can beat you on a given day even if you put out your best team. secondly, other euroepean league teams can rest their players regularly during the season and focus on the European matches, RM,Barca,Bayern,PSG only have a few tough league matches in the year. Thirdly the speed, ferocity and number of matches played by EPL teams means that players are injured more often and play injured and tired more often, most of the euorpean leagues are pedestrian and played by farmers.
You are deluded if you think that more than a handful of spanish teams would survive in the premier league. Most of La Liga teams couldn't even stay up in the championship.
And your comment about Athletico Madrid - the third biggest club in Spain who have won the title 11 times, the cup 10 times and at least 4 European titles is derisible and makes you seem more of a clown than you are already viewed. UEFA rank them as the no.11 club in Europe. Fool.
We've fallen quite a long ways in the last decade. Hopefully are beginning the ascent back to the top of the mountain.
