Mourinho puts the Bundesliga v PL to bed...Bundesliga stronger than the PL?..."no, (and he said 'no' almost laughing at the ridiculousness of the question) not by a long way", like Spain, 2 big teams, then a couple of good ones, and that is all. He finished with "the Premier League is the premier league".
Chelsea fans should listen to there manager.
Overall our league is better, definitely agree yet Germans national team puts us to shame and dortmund and bayern are at a another level, it's embarrassing watch us try play football when you see how Zee Germans do it!
But in terms of which league is better overall, then we're definitely a stronger league.
I think that's the problem with our national side, the heart of the Spanish and German sides play together every week. Our lot are strangers.
You have to consider various aspects of a league.
The competitive nature, the average technical ability of players across the clubs etc.
The PL is so much better on the former.
But Spain/Germany much better on the latter (and it shows so obviously at the
UEFA and international levels) .
I was trying to find an article on how Germany changed its national team.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...raphael_honigstein/07/01/germany.reinvention/
It mentions this:
The German FA realized that something had to be done. It
looked at the French system and decided that something similar
was needed. In May 1999, FA vice president Beckenbauer, first-
team manager Ribbeck, Bayer Leverkusen general manager
Reiner Calmund and FA Director of Youth Development Dietrich
Weise presented a new concept for producing young German
footballers. All across the country, 121 national talent centers
would be built to help 10- to 17-year-olds with technical
practice. Each center would employ two full-time coaches at a
cost of $15.6 million over five years. The second key point was
a new requirement for all 36 professional clubs in Bundesliga
and Bundesliga 2 to build youth academies.
"If this concept works, we will see a lot of youngsters get into
Bundesliga clubs in the coming years," Weise said.
It clearly works and that's what we should be doing instead of spending millions on managers like sven and capello.
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LOL put Hoddle in charge and let him implement a system, and we may produce players that are known for being great technically rather then missing a drugs test.
Or Danny Mills who is known for... erm... what exactly?
Bang average player and bang average pundit, the mind boggles.
That's a good point, Spain and Germany have two teams who will always be winning the league (expect for the odd year).
Over here it varies between man Utd, man City, Chelsea and Arsenal plus you have us, Liverpool and Everton trying to push higher.
In Spain it's virtually always Barca and Madrid and in Germany it's bayern and dortmund now.
Most of the national teams core play for them two teams in each country.
So like you say with us its like a bunch of strangers turning up to try and play as a team.