elephanttears
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Cant deny it, the best teams and league in the world at the minute. Fair play to them.
two top teams but I would question the amount of competition they have though?? Munich seem to be winning by 5 & 6 every game at the moment!
I think you will see English sides becoming a force again in Europe. United with a few tweaks will be back (zaha a major asset), if Chelsea get falcao and we all know that city will spend huge in the summer (sadly not us!).
Hats off to the germans, they proved to the Spanish on how to play real football with power and pace. Very efficient use of the ball rather than playing possession football
English football seems to be heavily reliant on big spending to remain competitive. The German model for years has kept costs down and entertainment high, with an emphasis on fan involvement. Either we readjust accordingly or things will not improve.
Ticket prices are dirt cheap too, and a lot of clubs tickets entitle fans to free travel on trams, trains and buses on match days.
I'd give it a wait if this might be a one-time-only event.
Plus our national side did not win anything in ages.
But I agree with cheap ticket prices and rising gates being great.
Plus the lights of Dortmund + Bayern achieve their current success without being in debts like other big clubs in Europe...
Messi is great over there, but I wonder if he would be as great if he played in a league with better competition...
Cant deny it, the best teams and league in the world at the minute. Fair play to them.
They have 2 great teams and a couple of decent teams. The rest of the league is crap
Couldn't you say that about every league in the world?
I think Spain and England have very competitive leagues. With germany, the top 2 win by like 5 goals unless they're up against eachother. Its too predictable, but in Spain and here, anyone can beat anyone
Like where? The PL? haha!
Our teams only compete at the level they do off the back of being filthy rich or being owned by an oil or gas tycoon-it's no way to make a success of the game. Swansea, if they continue with their current momentum, are the only team coming close. German football fans can go and watch the best teams in the land for less than an adult pays to watch the City-surely that's telling us something?
Sadly I just don't think those in charge of the Premier League will ever want to allow financial commonsense to prevail over their wallets. Like I said earlier, either we cut out this over dependence on money for success or our strongest teams will struggle to compete-let alone the national side.
You're clearly just making this stuff up.
I totally agree. That league is an ideal I fear we'll never reach while BSB and the PL money men are in charge. Even down to their terracing policy. Look how much Dortmund have spent in the last 5 years and how much their squad is currently worth.
Messi is great over there, but I wonder if he would be as great if he played in a league with better competition...
He was poor against Bayern and I've just started to notice he can be a bit predictable on the pitch, but hey, who wouldn't want him in their side. League for league though, I don't see La Liga being that much more different to the Prem and other European leagues. Two teams dominating, the next four or five are pretenders to the title and often flatter to deceive and the rest are looking for mid table places with two down and out duffers at the bottom waiting for the season to end.
The one thing I'd love to know though is how would Messi cope with the physicality of the Premiership? Guess we'll never find out.
English football seems to be heavily reliant on big spending to remain competitive. The German model for years has kept costs down and entertainment high, with an emphasis on fan involvement. Either we readjust accordingly or things will not improve.
When Munich spent over £60m this season (not including their latest signing form Dortmund) I would class this as big spending in my book.....just saying
You don't see them spending that much year in year out to be fair.
I would say you do, just they're such a money-making machine it's money they can fully afford.
A lot different to spending an outside investor's billions.
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