Due to 3 posts a day limit, this is the first chance I’ve had to reply to this, but why are you twisting my words around?
How can you say Manchester United and English football deserve no credit for how C. Ronaldo has developed? For 1 would C.Ronaldo have still gone on to become the physical specimen he is today without English football (big part of his game)?
Would De Gea still have gone on to become arguably the best goalkeeper in the world if it wasn’t for him playing his trade in the Premier League? I highly doubt it personally, i suspect he would still be skinny and terrible crosses if he was still playing his trade in the Spanish league in the same way many seasoned Spanish based goalkeepers are.
I’m not saying these players now have a St George’s Cross wrapped around them and English football is solely responsible for who they are today, all I’m saying English football deserve ‘credit’ as an English clubs time/money and coaching along with them playing in English footballing culture week in week out went a long way into making these players the players they are today.
I'd say you're talking nonsense, really. It's also impossible to prove.
It's as if you think Ronaldo suddenly stopped improving the moment he left the PL, or La Liga has never produced great goalkeeper's.
Let's be clear, SAF did a great job with Ronaldo, we don't know for certain if he would've become the same player at another club (club being the word here, not country), sure, but attributing his standing now to 'English football' is crazy. Credit Man Utd and the greatest manager ever, maybe, not English football.
De Gea, again, it's so naive to think the "toughness" of the PL made him the GK he is now, it's as if you've never seen the Italian league or La Liga before. I'd say he's another case, like Ronaldo, of being at a giant club with a great manager.
You and others seem to be confused here, there's a different between a player being trained at one of the world's biggest clubs with huge resources and great staff, and being trained by 'English football'.
Besides, it's also all a bit silly, using one of the best player's ever and the best GK in the world as an example is pretty lame, where are all these other quality footballer's who become great in the PL. In fact, I don't even know what you're trying to argue, the whole original point was that there's more talent in countries like Spain and Germany for English clubs to pluck players from than there is in Britain for foreign clubs.