Bale's La Liga boast

[franksinatra]

It is pretty obvious La liga is much stronger a competition as has been highlighted by their continued success in European competition. The absolute rubbish that their is lack of strength lower down is also laughable.

Firstly clubs lower down the league have consistently outperformed Premiership sides in the UEFA cup.

Secondly you may have noticed City (The champions of England) have been picking up four or five players over the last two seasons from clubs outside the established 'top two' in Spain. We have bought players from Malaga and Seville. When I see Real Madrid or Barcelona picking up players from Stoke, West Ham, Everton, Newcastle in such numbers then we can start talking about the depth of the English league.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

It is pretty obvious La liga is much stronger a competition as has been highlighted by their continued success in European competition. The absolute rubbish that their is lack of strength lower down is also laughable.

Firstly clubs lower down the league have consistently outperformed Premiership sides in the UEFA cup.

Secondly you may have noticed City (The champions of England) have been picking up four or five players over the last two seasons from clubs outside the established 'top two' in Spain. We have bought players from Malaga and Seville. When I see Real Madrid or Barcelona picking up players from Stoke, West Ham, Everton, Newcastle in such numbers then we can start talking about the depth of the English league.

You are ignoring the financial differences between the two leagues. If you aren't Barca or Real you are a selling team when a big English team comes to the table. Look at Chelsea and Atletico. Atletico clearly was the better team last year but Chelsea just took apart their team with financial clout.

 

[dennishasdoneit]

bales la liga boast ..sounds like
Bela Lugosi,s dead. one of the best records of all time.
just saying like.

 

[supercrystal7]

It's not about individual players, it's about teams. Dortmund has how many players that would get into the Real Madrid team? Yet twice in recent memory Dortmund has given Madrid a hammering.

Quite a lot especially when they got to the final. Piszcek, Gundogan, Sven, Reus, Hummels and Lewandowski would all have made the Madrid team in 2013. Gotze would be close. Being a big star does not make you a better player.

It is pretty obvious La liga is much stronger a competition as has been highlighted by their continued success in European competition. The absolute rubbish that their is lack of strength lower down is also laughable.

Firstly clubs lower down the league have consistently outperformed Premiership sides in the UEFA cup.

Secondly you may have noticed City (The champions of England) have been picking up four or five players over the last two seasons from clubs outside the established 'top two' in Spain. We have bought players from Malaga and Seville. When I see Real Madrid or Barcelona picking up players from Stoke, West Ham, Everton, Newcastle in such numbers then we can start talking about the depth of the English league.

You are ignoring the financial differences between the two leagues. If you aren't Barca or Real you are a selling team when a big English team comes to the table. Look at Chelsea and Atletico. Atletico clearly was the better team last year but Chelsea just took apart their team with financial clout.

And you are missing the point. Teams like Newcastle etc would sell any top player they have. La Liga consistently produces so many top quality players that they are a lot to go around even for the smaller teams.

 

[BlueDeadHead]

It's not about individual players, it's about teams. Dortmund has how many players that would get into the Real Madrid team? Yet twice in recent memory Dortmund has given Madrid a hammering.

Quite a lot especially when they got to the final. Piszcek, Gundogan, Sven, Reus, Hummels and Lewandowski would all have made the Madrid team in 2013. Gotze would be close. Being a big star does not make you a better player.

It is pretty obvious La liga is much stronger a competition as has been highlighted by their continued success in European competition. The absolute rubbish that their is lack of strength lower down is also laughable.

Firstly clubs lower down the league have consistently outperformed Premiership sides in the UEFA cup.

Secondly you may have noticed City (The champions of England) have been picking up four or five players over the last two seasons from clubs outside the established 'top two' in Spain. We have bought players from Malaga and Seville. When I see Real Madrid or Barcelona picking up players from Stoke, West Ham, Everton, Newcastle in such numbers then we can start talking about the depth of the English league.

You are ignoring the financial differences between the two leagues. If you aren't Barca or Real you are a selling team when a big English team comes to the table. Look at Chelsea and Atletico. Atletico clearly was the better team last year but Chelsea just took apart their team with financial clout.

And you are missing the point. Teams like Newcastle etc would sell any top player they have. La Liga consistently produces so many top quality players that they are a lot to go around even for the smaller teams.

I am not disagreeing with your overall point. I am saying that there is a financial variable to this. English teams have more money then the Spanish teams. That is true at the bottom of the table (Newcastle/Sevilla) or top of the table (Chelsea/Atletico). The La Liga champs and the CL runners up just had their team decimated because they do not have the money that English teams have.

 

[Pell]

He's right. La Liga is the best League in the world.

 

[aguero93:20]

Premiership XI


XXXX

Zabba Kompany XXXX XXXX

XXXX YAYA XXXX SILVA

AGUERO XXXX


Fill in the X's with whoever ......

Try:
Hart
Demichelis Kolarov
Nasri Fernandinho
Dzeko
Looks pretty good to me.

 

[ManCitizens.]

What do you expect him to say?

 

[jimharri]

What do you expect him to say?

Correct. He's hardly likely to slag off La Liga, is he? I'm sure Merlin and Navas will praise the PL to the skies. Doesn't mean to say they actually believe it though.

 

[GHoddle]

It's not about individual players, it's about teams. Dortmund has how many players that would get into the Real Madrid team? Yet twice in recent memory Dortmund has given Madrid a hammering.

Quite a lot especially when they got to the final. Piszcek, Gundogan, Sven, Reus, Hummels and Lewandowski would all have made the Madrid team in 2013. Gotze would be close. Being a big star does not make you a better player.

That's actually kind of the point I'm making.

Some of the players you listed are debatable, imo Piszcek and Bender wouldn't have gotten into the Madrid team even in 2013. Reus vs Di Maria (or Bale the next year) also debatable. 2014 though they hammered Madrid at home again iirc and they didn't have Hummels and Gundogan in their team at that time did they? My memory of it is fuzzy but pretty sure I'm right.