You responded with a post about style of play, not quality of competition. If you limit the definition of quality of competition to teams only playing a possession based passing game, of course La Liga is better. A lot of EPL teams play a lot more of a direct style, but the quality of players throughout the league can't be matched. You have mid table EPL teams buying good players from quality clubs every summer. So while I agree with you that the style of play isn't as good, I disagree the the competition is inferior in any way. La Liga is without a doubt better at the top with Barca, Real, and Atletico.
Because United doesn’t want to give up Martial for a 29 year old. I have my doubts that United want to get rid of Martial at all. Also Liverpool's window scares me. I think that Spurs and United should team up this season to make a super team because honestly at this point it doesn’t seem like Spurs are linked with anyone so they still need that other creative mid and probably some depth and United’s defense still looks worse than most bottom table teams. A team that starts Kane, Alexis, Eriksen, Son, Pogba, etc. wins the league.
I absolutely agree that initial post is huge hyperbole of course.Style of play and skill level has a lot to do with it. Betis beat Madrid last year, and even though Madrid was struggling last season at that point, and dominating the game - Betis played.
Same with Barca in 2016-17 against Malaga and some other games.
Don't get me wrong, I love the EPL, I love it's culture and tradition, but the football being played between West Ham and WBA (for example) is just not on par with the football being played between a team like Betis and Espanyol.
And I'm a Hammers fan lol...
As far the quality itself... I've seen nothing that would lead me to the conclusion that mid-table clubs in the Premier League are better than mid-table clubs in La Liga.
Either way, the statement that the "schedule and quality of competition is 10x harder than any other league" is a bit too much, I'm sure you'd agree (?).
Or not.
Speaking of which, West Ham has had an oddly good transfter window and have now apparently put in a bid for Vida as well.
I'm hugely excited to see where and how exactly it will go wrong this season.
I saw rumors that we are interested in a possible reunion with Cech if other options fall through. At least it's better than those Peter Crouch rumors from January.
We could do worse I think, but I'll be pissed if we spend more than the 35m we're getting for Courtois for a keeper. No reason we can't pry a quality keeper from someone for less than that, as we're not going to replace Courtois and we shouldn't blow the budget trying.
Yeah, unless we are getting someone near top 10 quality, we should buy a vet stop-gap, and find a top keeper prospect to bring in and start in a year or 2.
If this had happened earlier, chasing Lafont would have made sense. City didn't pay that much for Ederson, has to be other decent options out there rather than overpaying for someone.
Because Liverpool just made it to the final of a CL. They added a world class DM, a fantastic CM, a world class GK, and a rotational option that would probably be starting for us.
