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Is The Premier League Tougher Than It Used To Be?
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Country: South Africa
Player:Nketiah
You and your constant silly points scoring.
Why not come to the league's harder thread and make your arguments there, instead of this nonsense?
Was never harder to win games in England than today. Any aficionado can tell by seeing only future legends like Wilson Rashford Watkins Mitrovic etc among the league's top scorers.
<<reed>>
Lidl Tir Na Nog
For real though, the more I think about it the less I am impressed with our season.
The average United side & almost relegated 18 months ago Newcastle made Top 4, either ETH and Howe are elite managers or this is one of the poorest PL seasons ever
Used to take the piss out of Howe for wasting millions on trash at Bournemouth but he deserves a lot of credit for what he's done at Newcastle. Even if they paid a lot of money loads of PL managers can't get that right.For real though, the more I think about it the less I am impressed with our season.
The average United side & almost relegated 18 months ago Newcastle made Top 4, either ETH and Howe are elite managers or this is one of the poorest PL seasons ever
Ten Hag is a tricky one, jury out at the moment imo. Stuff like seven at Anfield, six at City, collapsing vs Sevilla etc could've spelled the end for him but one thing he's definitely doing better than Arteta so far is pick up the pieces and get his team back on track. He's spent absurd amounts but who doesn't in England.
Really weird season, people talk about top teams etc as strong as ever but feels more like it was two top teams, a bunch of rich mid table sides and 10-12 relegation candidates.
ArsenesCoatMaker
Established Member
@A_G some tidying up in this thread for you bro. League's Harder Now thread has been sneakily moved in here.
Country: England
You look at the top six and their best players;
City: Haaland, KDB
Arsenal: Saka, Ødegaard
United: Rashford, Bruno
Liverpool: Salah, VVD
Chelsea: Enzo, Silva
Sp**s: Kane, Bentancur
Barring City and perhaps Liverpool the quality is nowhere near what it was years earlier, a real lack of world class stars.
City: Haaland, KDB
Arsenal: Saka, Ødegaard
United: Rashford, Bruno
Liverpool: Salah, VVD
Chelsea: Enzo, Silva
Sp**s: Kane, Bentancur
Barring City and perhaps Liverpool the quality is nowhere near what it was years earlier, a real lack of world class stars.
<<reed>>
Lidl Tir Na Nog
van Dijk wouldn't even be top 2 at Southampton these days but other than that bang on.
Actually looking at it a little closer it's a complete garbage post but your overall point stands.
Blankety Blank
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We had a very good season. It depends how you define the league being tougher though.For real though, the more I think about it the less I am impressed with our season.
The average United side & almost relegated 18 months ago Newcastle made Top 4, either ETH and Howe are elite managers or this is one of the poorest PL seasons ever
I would say it's far tougher to win as Man City are the most consistent team ever.
You could also say Sp**s had 30 goals Kane one of the best strikers on the planet & could only manage 8th. Liverpool the only team who have beaten Man city in recent years no longer made top 4.
We fell out of the top 4 for years.
Winning the league & getting top 4 is tougher.
It has been for a long time.
GDeep™
League is very weak
Standard of the league is horrendous atm. Said it all season.
Doesn’t take away from us, we turned up and beat whatever was in front of us most weeks, credit to our consistency.
Outside City, Arsenal and Brighton it was car crash football.
Doesn’t take away from us, we turned up and beat whatever was in front of us most weeks, credit to our consistency.
Outside City, Arsenal and Brighton it was car crash football.
Farzad Stoned
Self-appointed Deprogrammer for the Cult of Mik 🟥
Country: USA
Player:Havertz
Emery has got Villa playing some good football to; surprised you don’t share your thoughts on him at Villa.
Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
@GDeep™ has HIGH expectations for Villa to be fair, he was apart of the team that actually won the European Cup back in the 1980s, that's his standards.
So until Unai starts winning trophies for them, then G ain't getting interested.
Farzad Stoned
Self-appointed Deprogrammer for the Cult of Mik 🟥
Country: USA
Player:Havertz
He played for them in early 80s; damn i thought i was old thank god he is older lol
Tir Na Nog
Changes Opinion Every 5 Minutes
Country: Ireland
Country: South Africa
Player:Nketiah
Loosely related I'd say, it does give us an idea of where the game is going next. It does touch on the dominance of positional play now, and how that has taken away from the individual and added more to the collective.
I would say one thing though, about relational play. The "three in a row" or "staircase" as I know it, is something that you see a lot in positional play football. It always leads to a dummy situation by the middle player out of the three.
Country: England
Standard is on the floor.
Luton, Sheffield United, Bournemouth
Don’t think they’ve got one player between them that is PL level.
Luton, Sheffield United, Bournemouth
Don’t think they’ve got one player between them that is PL level.
Country: Wales
Country: England
It’s awful. These teams have NOTHINGStronger PL than ever before I’ve been told
