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Originally Posted by devo22
Generally I think the league's overall strength is second to none right now. Everybody can beat everybody and, unlike in Germany and Spain, weaker teams go in flying vs the top teams and never roll over and die.
But it's true, the strength at the top is not very high at the moment and there's no team that could compete with the best teams in Europe right now. I think it's just a phase though, those things always fluctuate. Not long ago, England terrorised European football with having 3 semifinalists every year while Bayern was in no-mans land and Real couldn't get out of the last 16. I'm sure it'll turn around for England soon, also thanks to the financial muscle.
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I agree with you except for a few things, the problem isnt the Financial muscle its the overall composition.
England isnt developing its own players. Thats the first problem.
From there though its overall costs that have gotten out of control. The EPL is easily the richest league in the world but notice that the average wages are getting out of control and every time an English team is in for a player they're paying £7+M more in transfer fees?
I was reading a few days ago about Douglas Costa. Bayern snagged him for 30M Euro but and English team was in on him and their cost was £40M. Thats a HUGE difference, you'd have to think that the tipping point was either the team, the city or the wages but still.
It costs a lot more for an English team to load up, especially because their average weekly wages are higher especially on top clubs and they dont develop their own talent to fill out roster spots.
I do agree that its a cycle, but at the moment you have to wonder when its going to come around because Bayern have been a top club for almost a decade now with Real and Barca even longer than that.