Stewart PrimrosePremiership lags behind Spain
May 19th 2010 11:30
Another one wanting to leave England.
So Cesc Fabregas wants to leave Arsenal and return to his native Barcelona?
The news, if true, is hardly going to come as a shock to the Arsenal supporters, as this deal was always on the cards.
When the transfer of a player to a club is rumoured every transfer window, it usually happens. Take the Cristiano Ronaldo and Thierry Henry departures from England as a good example.
But why does Fabregas want to leave Arsenal and England?
We are told the English Premiership is the greatest league in the world, not just from Sky, but most media outlets in the country. If Sky had their way, they would be telling everyone they invented the Premiership. Wait, they invented football. That’s right.
However, if the Premiership is so good, why do all the top players want to leave and join Spain’s La Liga?
Ronaldo, along with Lionel Messi, is regarded as the best player in the world, but he was desperate to leave English shores and move to Real Madrid – a move that finally happened last summer.
Fabregas now wants to do the same, although the fact that he will be moving home is no slight on the game there. It does; however, merely emphasise Sky’s flagship football is not all that it is cracked up to be.
Apart from the English ones, how many genuine world class players are employed by Europe's so called top league?
I’ll give you Fernando Torres, Didier Drogba, Michael Essien and err…..
But even Torres has been rumoured to join up with Fabregas in Catalunya’s capital next season.
The only argument we hear over the Premiership being the greatest league the world has ever seen is that it has the most money.
Yes, but the more money clubs in the league seem to earn, the more they waste. Look at Portsmouth, West Ham, or if you want to go back further, Leeds United. Hardly prospering from Sky’s billions, are they?
The standard of football is far higher in Spain, and it’s easily more attacking. So they can’t even claim to be the most exciting league in the world anymore.
Technically wise, Spain is on a different level, and this may be the core reason for so many to choose it ahead of dour old England.
Now I’m not saying the Premiership is a poor league. It certainly is one of the top divisions in the world, but now even the top teams are struggling to attract the very best because of the debt they have accumulated over the last decade.
Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool – the so called big four – have not been on a big spending spree for a while now. Roman Abramovich appears to have tempered his outlay, which is understandable given his initial invested when he took over the club in 2003.
Barcelona and Real Madrid are already far bigger clubs and are able to outspend five fold. With Bayern Munich and Inter Milan contesting the Champions League final this week, there is more than just a genuine challenge to the elite of England.
Serie A was once the biggest and richest league on the planet. Now it is debt ridden and, apart from Inter, their clubs have been on a downward spiral ever since the bubble burst.
England’s own bubble is bound to go the same way. How big it will explode will be determined on Sky’s loyalty. Now there’s a thought.
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