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Asa can play at LB, you will see when he returns. he is better than Evra who is doing quite good so far. if we are to sign a starting LB it has to be either a young high potential player who wont cost much. the only other option is Darmian who we should try to get for a loan in the summer since we have quite much to spend on our own players. Rodriguez we have no chance after he renewed his contract and got a buy out clause of 35M.
we should however have a decent sum to spend on one player in the summer. but not one in the 30M+ range. Mkhitaryan, Jovetic (or in some unrealistic scenario Firmino
) are types of players we will probably look for. very good and available for a somewhat reduced price. keep in mind that we can only afford one such player for 2 reasons. 1st, we spend most of our budget on our own players and 2nd, our own players are taking up spots in the squad so we dont have room for more than one established offensive player.
we should however have a decent sum to spend on one player in the summer. but not one in the 30M+ range. Mkhitaryan, Jovetic (or in some unrealistic scenario Firmino
) are types of players we will probably look for. very good and available for a somewhat reduced price. keep in mind that we can only afford one such player for 2 reasons. 1st, we spend most of our budget on our own players and 2nd, our own players are taking up spots in the squad so we dont have room for more than one established offensive player.
The EPL, where teams can't defend for shit. It might be entertaining, but the best league? Fuck no! It's been in a steady decline for the past 4-5 years. As for the Bundesliga, it is just Bayern, and then everyone else. The league actually needs to be competitive, if you are going to call it the best.
La Liga has 3 incredibly strong teams.
The EPL, where teams can't defend for $#@!. It might be entertaining, but the best league? $#@! no! It's been in a steady decline for the past 4-5 years. As for the Bundesliga, it is just Bayern, and then everyone else. The league actually needs to be competitive, if you are going to call it the best.
La Liga has 3 incredibly strong teams.
The EPL, where teams can't defend for $#@!. It might be entertaining, but the best league? $#@! no! It's been in a steady decline for the past 4-5 years. As for the Bundesliga, it is just Bayern, and then everyone else. The league actually needs to be competitive, if you are going to call it the best.
La Liga has 3 incredibly strong teams.
In Serie A, there have been 514 games after 20 rounds (with 2 matches still to play with 4 teams still having played only 19 rounds). That works out to exactly 2.59 goals per fixture as well.
Magically, La Liga also works out to be 2.59
The Bundesliga has the highest goal count per fixture at 2.82.
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Of course there are limitations to this analysis. But as a whole, one would have to conclude that the attacking players in the premier league are superior than in Serie A. So if overall goals scored is the same per fixture, it would imply that English defences are actually better than Serie A.
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I also don't think the EPL is in decline. Recently EPL teams have not done that well in the champions league but I think that is partly as a result of the fact that the top 3-4 teams had been more equal than the top 3 or 4 in Spain or Germany (forget Serie A as its not even comparable) in recent years.
If the wealth in the EPL was concentrated into 2 teams like it is in Spain or 1 team as it is in Germany, they would probably win the champions league almost every year.
It just makes you realize the sorry state of Serie A. Juve has won the league 3 years in a row and is 7 points clear just past the midway point and the best any Italian team has done in the last few years is reach the quarters (thanks to an easy fixture against Celtic). This year Juve struggled just to get to the knock outs and can thank Atletico for playing out a draw in the last match.
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