Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2017 23:05:07 GMT
Aug 21, 2017 21:44:12 GMT @painbow said:
Flukes happen. Apparently Leicester won the league once (my nan told me about it) but that tells us nothing significant.The French league is nothing more than a proxy for the Italians until the Italians can sort their shit out.
Neymar wants to be Messi but Spain already has Messi so he went to an Aldi league to be its Aldi Messi.
The Premier League is a weak league where, as you say, even a shit team like Leicester can win it and players like John Stones, Gary Cahill, Kyle Walker and Luke Shaw are considered elite defenders. It's a Home Bargains league with Harrods prices.
Maybe he could have gone to Real Madrid and maybe he'd have been the main man there, but people have been saying for years that La Liga is a league full of bad teams. Personally I think it is the strongest league in the world top to bottom, but there is no denying there are some weak defences in the lower half of the table and he'd have ripped them to bits much as he has here.
Nobody in Germany could afford him and, as with France, that is often considered a one team league. Same applies to Italy.
Wherever he went, or if he stayed where he was, he'd be playing against shit teams in the league most weeks. He went to a team where it'd be focused on getting the best out of him and making sure he could maximise his potential. He is too good to be a support act.
Additionally, England, Germany and Italy (to a lesser extent) are still more competitive and prestigious than France.
As for the quality of those defenders: Stone is too young to judge, Cahill has won titles and the champions league, Kyle Walker was wanted by Guardiola who apparently knows a thing or two and Shaw is a classic sicknote. That's not much of an argument (other than perhaps the overblown fees).