La Liga Vs. The Premiership – Goal’s opinion
July 25th, 2009 | Author: Shaw
My La Liga vs. Premiership series (Read part one and part two) explained why the Premier League is becoming a less desired choice for footballers, now goal has also given us a few more ideas to add to the growing pile.
According to Sky Sports, the Premier League has always been “the best and most exciting league” in the world. And at the end of last season it did appear that indeed the Premier League was the strongest league.
For the fifth successive year there was a Premier League side in the final of the Champions League. For the third consecutive season there were three English sides in the semi-finals. Although this doesn’t necessarily prove the superiority of the Premier League to other European domestic leagues, it did attest the strength of the Big Four – Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.
Yet something changed in the summer and now it appears that it is La Liga and not the Premier League that is ‘the best and most exciting league’ in the world. FC Barcelona’s all-consuming, all-conquering, galactic football last season convinced everyone that the best and most poetic football is played in Spain while Florentino Perez’s second coming at Real Madrid has made the Spanish capital the centre of European football again.
This summer, the biggest players have been linked with either Real Madrid or Barcelona. The likes of David Villa, Franck Ribery, Cesc Fabregas, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo all have or had either stated their desire to remain in La Primera or move to Spain , thereby proving that it is La Liga and not the Premier League that is the most attractive in the world. – Subhankar Mondal, Goal.com ….
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