04 Mar 2015 21:36:54
The PL is drowned with money from the rights but the entire league needs a huge improvement in terms of quality in the next few years. The top 5 are decent with an included woeful united. But after that five when you look at the standard it's shocking. The PL is well below the German and Spanish leagues overall. Quality is vastly regressing
05 Mar 2015 00:50:53
The fact that we were woeful in the first half of the season and due to this good run, we have made up the gap virtually is a scathing indictmnt of the PL`s quality atm because 5-10 years ago, the best we could have hoped for with that dreadful start would be 8th, 25-30 points behind Chelsea.
05 Mar 2015 08:33:17
I actually disagree - it's the top 3-4 that can't compete atm with the top teams from Spain and Germany. The league as a whole is consistently very very tough which is why we don't have such massive points gaps as we move down the league - every team is a real challenging match, there are no games where you are guaranteed to coast to a victory and even the newly promoted ones can bite you if you don't stay on top of them. The quality upgrade is needed at the top, the league as a whole is much stronger and more entertaining but we are let down by the inability of the winners to compete
05 Mar 2015 17:18:57
Let's put it this way, if bayern where in this league they wouldn't win it by some ridiculous 20 point gap, in fact they wouldn't even win it as often as they do. Same would apply to real and barca. We have the hardest and most entertaining league in the world. But we do not have the 3 elite teams anymore. Bayern, real and barca are the only teams better than any team we have.