They're 7-0 up away to Troyes on BT Sport (30 minutes left). They'd win our league this season.
They'd win it most seasons, as would Real, Atletico and Dortmund. Barca and Munich would piss it. This country prefers competitive to quality. If we had a top team, winning by 10 points and getting to CL semi-final/final every season it would be 'boring'. The fact is, despite the huge amount of money spent by PL teams, we have a real shortage of world class players in this country. How many players in England would get into the Barcelona, Munich, PSG, Dortmund or either of the Madrid sides? Not many. Look at City, Chelsea, Arsenal and the rags this season. Useless, all of them. Now it could be that Pellegrini, LVG, Wenger and Mourinho have all become collectively totally useless or, just maybe, the quality of footballer in this country is second tier. City are, potentially, 3 wins from winning the CL but nobody on here thinks they've got any chance whatsoever. Spurs have been 'brilliant' this season apparantly, but Dortmund turn up and batter them into submission. PSG swat Chelsea aside with not much fuss.
Whilst not defending MP, might a big reason we're not doing so well be that the squad isn't quite as good as people like to think? I think only VK and Aguero would have a chance of getting into one of the top tier sides. As for the others: No rags that I can think of, maybe Sanchez and Ozil, no Spuds and no Leicester players. Says everything about the PL.