In my opinion PL is the best league in the world for a couple of years now but the difference with other leagues isn't as huge as a what a lot of PL fans think. I don't think that teams like Tottenham, Everton or Villa could compete against Bayern or PSG but they sure are better than teams like Villareal, Betis, Leverkusen, Union Berlin, Monaco etc.
The relative strength of the Premier League
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It's pretty obvious the Premier League is the strongest league currently. Take the best team out of each top 5 league and out of the remaining teams, the Premier League would wipe the floor with every other league.
Hasenhuettl is Austrian actually.
Additionally, the PL strength is not just about financial strength and even said financial strength is down to several reasons.
Yeah, good points
Hasenhüttl has spent the last 25 years (as player and then as coach) outside of Austria. He has made his coaching license with the German FA - actually it was Hoeness who helped him getting a place in the coaching course when he was ending his time at Bayern's U23. That is why we "adopted" him...
https://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/uefarankings/country/#/yr/2021
The PL has now overtaken La Liga to go top of the coefficient rankings. I'm not sure exactly how long it's been but I'd say about 10 years since that happened.
The PL has now overtaken La Liga to go top of the coefficient rankings. I'm not sure exactly how long it's been but I'd say about 10 years since that happened.
The PL is at an all time high I'd say. Imagine if City, United, Chelsea, Liverpool will structurally make the top 4 in the coming years. You will structurally have teams like Tottenham, Arsenal, Leicester, Everton in the EL. The English teams are doing a great job with United and Leicester even performing the worst out of them I'd say.
The strength really shows whenever you look at the gameweek/matchday, every week you so tough matches for your rivals where they could be dropping points. Wolverhampton, Villa, West Ham, Leeds are teams you can easily drop points to, where the top/sub-top consists of 8 teams. Brighton/Crystal Palace/Southampton are also horrible to play against. It makes for a fantastic competition and I can't wait for the fans to return.
The strength really shows whenever you look at the gameweek/matchday, every week you so tough matches for your rivals where they could be dropping points. Wolverhampton, Villa, West Ham, Leeds are teams you can easily drop points to, where the top/sub-top consists of 8 teams. Brighton/Crystal Palace/Southampton are also horrible to play against. It makes for a fantastic competition and I can't wait for the fans to return.
I didn't see the Chelsea game last night, but from what I read, Chelsea were very comfortable against the team top of La Liga.
Maybe Tuchel is kryptonite to Simeone but that was very surprising to me.
Good to see English teams back to top of the rankings, hopefully we'll contribute tonight by beating Milan, but am far from confident that will happen............
Maybe Tuchel is kryptonite to Simeone but that was very surprising to me.
Good to see English teams back to top of the rankings, hopefully we'll contribute tonight by beating Milan, but am far from confident that will happen............
I see there are ZERO Italian teams in the quarter finals, 3 English, 2 Germans, 1 Spanish, 1 French
There's your relative strength
There's your relative strength
The EL is complete different for Germany v Spain and Italy though.
0 Germany, 2 Italy, 2 Spain.
Leverkusen and Hoffenheim chocking was hugely annoying. Both should've won their ties but beat themselves.
Pl vs la liga in Europe this season is 11 - 0
Is that right? That's crazy.
Oh right. I thought you meant 11 meetings and 11 English victories.
Yeah. Spain usually do well in Europa because their teams just outside the best are pretty good.
It feels more like the other leagues have had a massive drop off rather than the PL getting better.
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you trying to get banned buddy?
Time for a "Spanish football is turd" thread? Atletico were shocking. Though they are one of the shittest top teams in history in general, so no surprise there.
I am shocked we don't have a La Liga is turd thread yet. These things are cyclical, The seasons English league struggled we heard different excuses
yes please!
Sure, another idiotic logic magnet thread
I love those. Burnley drew against Chelsea, but Chelsea beat Atletico so Burnley is better than Atletico, ha!
Burnley have a bigger chance of beating Ateltico than the La Liga version of Burnley have a chance of beating Ateltico.
Lal liga was always going to suffer a downturn once the big two retired/left.
La Liga is like the Spanish national team
Just drew 0-0 actually
first time they didn't lose against simeone in like forever 
Btw i claim jus primae noctis on "la liga is turd" thread. I was the first to point it out in these here shores
I can see both European cup competitions being all english finals with chelsea vs man city (strongest defences in ucl) and arsenal vs man united.
I’d be surprised if that happened again. United and Arsenal are too unreliable and Bayern are a very good team.
PL is way out in front this season. Germany has had a bad year whilst France has been completely terrible.
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Just take the average wage of the different leagues, and you will most likely see that it correlates perfectly with the relative strength of the different leagues. Maybe you will have a few exceptions, but that is the rule.
The runaway leaders of the Premier League barely scrapping by the 5th place German team. What has happened to English football?
come on.He‘s a Bayern fan. He needs the Bundesliga to be strong so that all their league titles aren‘t worthless.
True
its nice that the German defence league all stick together though. Maybe they can all hold hands and sing a song when Bayern win the league again and pick off the best players in the league?Leipzig - Liverpool 0-4
Munchengladbach - City 0-4
Hoffenheim - Molde 2-3
Young Boys - Leverkusen 6-3
Aek Athen - Wolfsburg 2-1
German teams losing to the giants of Europe here
Got a few fish already. And they say Germans don't have a sense of humour
Madrid played really well and Liverpool were shocking. Fully deserved their 3-1 win. City weren't at their best and will need to play much better than that for the rest of the competiton.
This.
Yeah we now how bad our league is - so what is the runaway leader of YOUR league doing against Dortmund who won't even play CL next season?
Barely not losing really isn't something to brag about
Unless you're Dortmund, Leipzig, Gladbach, Leverkusen. Then well done, you almost didn't lose.
Unless you're Dortmund, Leipzig, Gladbach, Leverkusen. Then well done, you almost didn't lose.
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