Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete
If the players and manager can't get excited, mentally prepared for a European Final it is not the fault of the competitiveness of their leagues
VladTheImpaler
The Sensational Prince
LFC!
Yall mad huh? BIG MAD!
Yall mad huh? BIG MAD!
you stannies do know that it's the foreign players that's advanced your top 6 right 
has nada to do with England football
has nada to do with England football
bigdaddy88
The King Of Power
you stannies do know that it's the foreign players that's advanced your top 6 right
has nada to do with England football
same can be said, for barca, madrid, juve, to a lesser extent bayern, (since bayern is the backbone of the NT) but pretty much every big team is full of foreigners, u remember when Inter won there was like one italian in the starting line up
When we praise the epl is, we are praising the style of play, drama and how small teams can shock bigger teams more times than not. not the british players most of them are overrated bums
CEO of Morgan Industries
Superstar
I think that even if you are excited and you badly want to win, it's got to be hard to kick yourself, your play, and your mindset into overdrive after months of getting fat off of victories over, say, Guingamp and Stade Rennes. I think that players are only human and it's hard to ramp up from that to playing Liverpool, Man City, and Tottenham, especially when the latter have been in dogfights for CL spots and the title all season and are better tested by both one another and even their mid-table opponents than you've been all season.
But that's just my opinion.
I think that even if you are excited and you badly want to win, it's got to be hard to kick yourself, your play, and your mindset into overdrive after months of getting fat off of victories over, say, Guingamp and Stade Rennes. I think that players are only human and it's hard to ramp up from that to playing Liverpool, Man City, and Tottenham, especially when the latter have been in dogfights for CL spots and the title all season and are better tested by both one another and even their mid-table opponents than you've been all season.
But that's just my opinion.
Lol Ajax and barca lost because they were soft, arrogant and couldn't defend for sh!t it had nothing to do with thier league
CEO of Morgan Industries
Superstar
I wouldn't characterize Ajax as soft or arrogant at all. Your best argument would have been that having to battle PSV all season for the Eredivisie didn't help them beat Tottenham, but I would definitely say that it helped them surprise everyone by getting this far as they beat a soft Real Madrid and a soft Juventus that barely had any meaningful games left to play by the time they played Ajax, they won their league by so much.
You can call out their defending, sure, and they play in the Eredivisie, where defense is optional, but they had played well defensively all the way up to that second half against Spurs in the CL. I think they're just young and they choked it away at the end because that's what young squads do sometimes.
Barca is soft, definitely, because they really weren't challenged in the league this year and outside of Copa del Rey, they also haven't really been playing meaningful games since a couple of months ago. Meanwhile, Liverpool has had to win every week in the league just to keep up with Man City.
Ay, you don't have to agree with me, but I definitely think it matters. That's all.
Kunty McPhuck
Scust Szn has Returned
you stannies do know that it's the foreign players that's advanced your top 6 right
has nada to do with England football
La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 must have a no foreigner rule in your universe..
ShenJingPoQi
All Star
La Liga and Bundesliga bosses are nervous. The real reason Barcelona, Madrid and Bayern dominated European football for the past decade or so; is because simply they’ve monopolized all the world class talent whilst just buying the best players from their local rivals. Sure they have obtained European success when you have all the best players in the world but EPL and its model has stolen the limelight. The EPL model and its distribution model has created a league of drama, big matches weekly and endless source of debate and talking points. EPL is now a social event, where people worldwide watch it over the weekend and base their weekend around it. EPL is also just starting to tap into India and Chinese market.
United vs Wolves is more popular worldwide than the Madrid derby. Ponder that,
EPL is an economic juggernaut
TobiOT
Veteran
Chelsea & Tottenham please don't let those b*stards win
Buh buh buh La Liga is better !
CEO of Morgan Industries
Superstar
It's true. EPL over here actually has a deal with NBC Sports. They hired analysts at a desk for pre- and post-match. Live games each weekend and on the weekdays for EPL are easy to see. The late game on Saturday is on NBC proper, which means they get penetration on free TV in the U.S. once a week. They'll get a million viewers at 7:30 AM ET/4:30 AM PT for major derbies.
If you want to watch La Liga, on the other hand, you have to have beIN on the super-expensive cable package (if it's even available) or have PSTV's/Sling's biggest package. Bundesliga is on Fox Sports, but it's not always live and doesn't get much in the way of presentation. Serie A is at least on ESPN+, so maybe it can do something in the future. I legit don't know where Ligue One is available...let me Google...oh, beIN.
I also work with a lot of people from across the globe, and if we talk football, we pretty much talk EPL, to be honest. I talk to South Korean kids who know everything about Tottenham because they watch Son, I've met Arsenal supporters from literally every continent outside of North America except for Antarctica, basically whenever I meet people who were born here or who were born elsewhere and have immigrated here, when we talk football, it's 1) EPL, 2) international football, 3) Champions League.
La Liga should definitely be doing better than making deals with beIN sports, but as you say, it goes back to the product. EPL is just more exciting as far as I'm concerned. People in America seem to agree.
I think NBC has done a really good job promoting EPL in the states. I mean look at the coverage for the final week. 10 matches at 10 am on 10 different channels.
