Is The Premier League Tougher Than It Used To Be?

[CaseUteinberger]

Which mod created this thread, then went back and moved all the posts from the Arteta thread?

You guys really do earn your wage here, fair play

Sucking up to the mods is tight!

 

[CaseUteinberger]

Up until this August he had the highest net spend in the entirety of European football over the past 2 seasons.

Where did you get this information? Just wanted to look it up as it is quite specific for the time span you give and seems like a good source. Or did you just take it it the Grealish transfer out of another figure?

 

[Hunta]

Of course it is.

Never seen talent like it in one league. Every club has players the likes of Barca and Madrid would love.

 

[GeorgiaGunner]

It’s way better. PL’s been the top league for decades, and now you have two more top 5 global clubs due to oil money

On AM, lionization of players of other eras (especially mid-2000s) is almost always just tacit defense of the Invincibles. There was a thread a year or so ago where someone was claiming Veron was better than De Bruyne.

 

[GeorgiaGunner]

Of course it is.

Never seen talent like it in one league. Every club has players the likes of Barca and Madrid would love.

Even the relegation threatened teams are crawling with full internationals. It’s simply fantastic competition every week (except maybe when we play City).

 

[<<reed>>]

The league became tougher (for Arsenal) as soon as Mikel Arteta was appointed.

Make of that what you will.

 

[celestis]

Fick no.

 

[Makingtrax]

Brighton will go top if they win their next match. Brentford almost beating Liverpool. But but but the league is getting harder.

 

[A_G]

Brentford almost beating Liverpool. But but but the league is getting harder.

That literally does prove the league is tougher, years ago a team like Liverpool would have battered a newly promoted side like Brentford.

 

[boonthegoon]

Brighton will go top if they win their next match. Brentford almost beating Liverpool. But but but the league is getting harder.

Lol that literally proves the league is tougher own goal here

 

[boonthegoon]

When did a promoted team come and play like Brighton or Brentford with good attacking mindset coaches like Potter or Frank? Obv it is tougher now.

 

[Lidl_Reed]

When did a promoted team come and play like Brighton or Brentford with good attacking mindset coaches like Potter or Frank? Obv it is tougher now.

Literally Southampton under Poch when Wenger was managing, or Stoke under the great Pulis

 

[swider]

Brighton will go top if they win their next match. Brentford almost beating Liverpool. But but but the league is getting harder.

But but but net spend.

 

[Rex Stone]

That literally does prove the league is tougher, years ago a team like Liverpool would have battered a newly promoted side like Brentford.

What about Leicester winning the league one year after promotion?

There’s always been promoted teams who’ve come up and played really well like Bournemouth or Swansea.

All three promoted clubs going down has almost never happened while all three staying up is way more common. Brentford aren’t reinventing the wheel ffs.

Frank is an overrated bummer.

 

[boonthegoon]

Literally Southampton under Poch when Wenger was managing, or Stoke under the great Pulis

At the same time, were there more clubs like west ham, villa, Leicester, Brighton playing good as well?

 

[Makingtrax]

That literally does prove the league is tougher, years ago a team like Liverpool would have battered a newly promoted side like Brentford.

What? They have battered Burnley, Leeds, Norwich and Palace. The fact that one lower club is really well organised, and can play with organisation and heart doesn’t mean the league is getting harder. It’s not.

 

[Makingtrax]

What about Leicester winning the league one year after promotion?

There’s always been promoted teams who’ve come up and played really well like Bournemouth or Swansea.

All three promoted clubs going down has almost never happened while all three staying up is way more common. Brentford aren’t reinventing the wheel ffs.

Frank is an overrated bummer.

Except bummer’s don’t over perform, they under perform . . witness Arteta.

 

[Makingtrax]

Nah I go to a lot of lower league London games and they’re just an the most universally despised team after Millwall.

Before they got promoted everyone called them Sky Sports Brentford because they’d get all the TV games and reach arounds from the pundits.

Act like they’re holistically grown but they’ve had way more money pumped in than other traditional London sides like Wimbledon, QPR or even Palace.

They’re literally just a bus stop in West London with a dead stadium filled with former Exeter Uni types who work at Foxtons. ****s.



I’ve hated them in the Championship and League 1. Check my post history.

Meteoric rise doesn’t tell lies, it spells very smart organisation.

 

[Rex Stone]

Except bummer’s don’t over perform, they under perform . . witness Arteta.

He almost bottled promotion three years running with the Championship Galacticos.

They’ve had an ok start. Still reckon they’ll get sorted out like Norwich in 2019/20. When the pressure is on him he crumbles.

Resort to Toney hoofball by November.

 

[Rex Stone]

Meteoric rise doesn’t tell lies, it spells very smart organisation.

Or they’ve just had money pumped into the club like others before them. Come on man