Is this the strongest Premier League of all time?

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Look at the list of teams, Leeds with Bielsa and talents like Raphinha, Phillips and Llorente are languishing 4th from bottom. Nearly every team in the league has some top, top talent and are trying to push on. Palace got rid of Hodgson and are trying to be ambitious with the Viera, Odouard and Olise signings, Brentford are one of the best promoted teams I've seen in recent times, I'd say there are only 4 'average' teams now.. and one of them just became the richest club in the world!

 

[Nihilist]

Not at all. But its good competition of high level, best league in the world by far , right now.

 

[Hoghead]

It was only the strongest PL during the reign of the Govin pisscan.
Keep up at the back!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Yes. It’s been building over the last decade with the increase of the TV money.

Bottom half Prem clubs sign CL players and they come to the Prem and do sod all. Look at Haller for Ajax, he was tearing it up in the CL last week and he was average as fuck at West Ham, nowhere near good enough for the Prem. Same with Joelinton, he was well worth his place at CL qualifying Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga, he’s one of the worst forwards in the entire league at Newcastle. Clubs just promote or sign better players and get rid of these kind of players.

I reckon mid-table teams like Wolves and Palace would challenge in the CL places in most other leagues around Europe. And they’d win the league in a fair few countries.

In midweek, I rated Brugge as just about the worst side we’ve ever faced in the CL (maybe Shalke, who we beat 10-2 on aggregate, were worse). They’re the Belgian champions, and they looked no better than mid table Championship level. We’ve had tougher games against Championship clubs in the domestic cups than we have in the CL. The strength in depth in England+Wales is fantastic.

 

[M12Blue]

Only if we fail to win it

 

[Keeper!]

There are some terrible teams in the league, Norwich, Newcastle, Leeds, Palace, Watford etc.

The positions of Everton, Brighton, Wolves, Arsenal say everthing.

The top 3 are quality, the rest mehh

 

[Semper aggressus]

City, Chelsea and Liverpool are probably in the top five strongest teams in Europe, with Bayern & PSG. After that there’s Leicester, Spurs, rag, then all the mid table teams like Everton, Arsenal, Wolves, etc. I think any of those would finish at least in the top 3 if playing in any other league in Europe.

Those making up the numbers; Burnley, Southampton, Newcastle, Leeds, Brighton, Watford and Leeds would probably be top 10 in any other league.

Norwich would struggle in the Latvian second division.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Yes comfortably so too. It's been leading to this for the past say half a decade, ever since the last renegotiation of the TV money that saw middling at best sides spending £30-40 million on players like it wasn't a big deal.

Those sides no longer need money making it much easier to keep their players and they can go to foreign teams that were previously much better and buy their best players, a team like Burnley buying cornet from Lyon never happens in any other season gone. The covid situation combined with the fact the Spanish teams were on course to crash like they have for years coinciding with the strength and money in our league only widens the gap.

Yes there's a gap at the very top to the rest but that's not because the rest are trash it's because the top is currently the absolute elite in world football right now. You'd be hard pressed to find any zebra pant wearing lunatic that wouldn't admit City Chelsea and Liverpool are easily 3 of the top 5 best sides in the world.

The league in general is the strongest its ever been and that's true at the top too, there's never been as strong competition as there has been during peps reign. You often see the argument the league needs to be tight and any year a team has ran away with it somehow proves the rest of the league isn't good, when in fact that just shows the strength of those sides at the very top. It's no coincidence long standing records are being broken constantly over the last few years. There's never been two sides as good as city and Liverpool have been and now with Chelsea stepping up too, there's definitely never been 3 teams as good.

 

[waspish]

Just look at Brighton Brentford also Wolves West Ham even spurs with Kane and Son in there team!

 

[domalino]

It's getting that way.

The emergence of the very ambitious midtable teams is the big difference. Leicester, Aston Villa, Wolves, Everton, West Ham represent a group that didn't really exist before - very wealthy owners who want to be in the top 6 and get into Europe. Newcastle will join them.

Spurs and Arsenal are weaker than in previous years but the main reason for that is the emergence of this group challenging for their positions at the bottom of the top 6.

People are talking about Norwich and Watford being really poor teams but the reality is they're just normal promoted sides in a league that's moved on. If you want to do well when you get in the PL now you need to play a brand of football to let you compete with everyone - like Bielsa or Thomas Frank.

I think there's a good chance we soon end up in a position where the 3 promoted teams all get relegated most of the time. The money gap is growing and the number of disinterested, old school owners is decreasing, as is the number of high spending projects left in the championship (like Brentford, Brighton, Villa, Leeds of the past 5 years).