What do you think about Mourinho’s statements on La Liga’s lack of competitiveness ?
“I was in Spain, but I didn’t enjoy it because I won a title with a record of 100 points and 121 goals, but we played only three or four competitive matches all season. There is a big, big gap between the giants and the others."
“This season I rested a few players against Bradford and I lost against Bradford. And that is English football. You are winning 2-0 and you concede a goal you know you are going to have hell for the last few minutes and you might draw 2-2 and lose two points,”
“This is the reality of the Premier League. You have no time. It’s not just about the number of matches, it’s the intensity. And it’s not just physical intensity, you feel the intensity mentally.
“I think the difference between the two leagues [Premier League and La Liga] is huge. Would they [Barcelona and Real Madrid] win the Premier League? Maybe yes. Maybe not.”
https://www.the42.ie/mourino-talks-la-liga-premier-league-2111724-May2015/
As a long time la liga watcher I was always confused when people say it was the best league in the 2010s. The financial gap between the big 2 and the smallest teams in the league was at its worst in the 2010s.
Messi’s wage alone is probably more than some club’s total revenue.
…because the standard of football being played, even further down the leagues, was of a technically much higher level than the shit churned out by garbage like West Ham, Wigan, Crystal Palace etc.
Anybody with a set of eyes could see that. Athletic Bilbao made Manchester United, under Fergie no less, look like a pub team, and they were doing very, very badly in their own league.
The standard across the board, regardless of “competitiveness” was of a far higher standard than you got from the cloggers that made up the “rest” of the Premier League, which, below the top 2-3 at the time, was absolute muck.
To be honest, not much has changed.