Lukaku said the same, that the technical and tactical level of Serie A was higher than the Premier League (but that the intensity was much higher in the PL) when he rejoined Chelsea, and the media were apoplectic.
Yeah. Now it's just mediocre spectacle wise, but pre 2017 2018, it was wery good (again spactacle wise).
It was the atitudine of the teams with "no f's given", that made it that way.
Now with so much money involved it turned into a grind for results football even for the small teams, who in turn turned it to boring premier league.
Sadly people in Scandinavia loves English football.
The PL was better in the mid/late 00's than of today imo. United, Arsenal and Chelsea all had good and exciting teams back then, Liverpool probably as well.
Yeah. Now it's just mediocre spectacle wise, but pre 2017 2018, it was wery good (again spactacle wise).
It was the atitudine of the teams with "no f's given", that made it that way.
Now with so much money involved it turned into a grind for results football even for the small teams, who in turn turned it to boring premier league.
Sadly people in Scandinavia loves English football.
The PL was better in the mid/late 00's than of today imo. United, Arsenal and Chelsea all had good and exciting teams back then, Liverpool probably as well.
Today not so much imo.
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True.
But the PL propaganda machine are second to none the best, and English being a world language certainly also helps them.
Else I can't see what is so special about the league on that island.
Mid 2000s to 2010 was actually great, they had 4 genuine top clubs, 3/4 regularly made it to the semifinals. 2009 what was maybe the best barcelona ever, Chelsea outplayed them badly. Todays teams couldnt even scratch the post 2015 MSN barcelona, let alone the 2009 one
I dislike English clubs as much as anyone, but their top tier is stronger than all the other leagues. There’s a reason more of their teams do better in Europe in the last few years compared to the other leagues, who mostly jusy have one or two teams carrying them. I think that does support the theory that the overall quality of the league is better.
Id say their mid table teams can likely do better than midtable Serie A, La Liga or Bundesliga teams as wel in one on one games.
His conversion rate over the past few years is like 12% higher and was something like 21 of 22 in his time at United so far. Probably has something to do with why he’s first choice. Of course that gonna change now with Ole at the wheel.
His conversion rate over the past few years is like 12% higher and was something like 21 of 22 in his time at United so far. Probably has something to do with why he’s first choice. Of course that gonna change now with Ole at the wheel.
Worst thing about his time here. We had one of the greatest FK takers currently in Pjanic, and Dybala who looked well on his way to becoming another of them… and Ronaldo takes pretty much every FK for three years. That alone cost us 5-6 goals a season easy.