Is this the strongest Premier League of all time?

If a team like United are top of their CL group, then it's safe to say the PL is stronger than ever.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
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.
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City can make most teams look like championship teams. Even Chelsea and Liverpool (first half at Anfield) looked very poor. Because we were too strong, not because they played like championship teams. Brugge drew with PSG (while having more shots on target than them) and beat Leipzig in Germany. You can be sure that no championship team can have such results on merit.
 
Its hard to say if its all time the best but it looks that way. 3 teams that are as good as anyone in europe (and they include the CL finalists from last year). Then a handfull of teams that will give the top 3 a good game and no doubt all 3 will lose a few over the course of the season. Some dross at the bottom but what league has not had dross at the bottom. Back in the days of the 'top 4' only 2 were ever any good at one time - the current top 3 are better and the likes of Leicester, West Ham, Totenham much stronger opposition. Some of them might fall away and there will be inconsistancy but in general the top half is quite strong.
 
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