theforceuk said:
If Liverpool get top 4 they will be in my top 3 to win it. I think any club that makes the top 4 deserves CL football, look how strong the English teams have been in Europe over the last 5 seasons.
It's weird, I was chatting with a one eyed Utd fan I know. He has been saying for years, coincidentally since Liverpool started to actually challenge for the title, that the PL is weaker now than it has ever been. Yet you look at hoe PL, sides are doing in Europe and we have the second all English CL final in 3 years (with Pool losing tomReal the year before) and Utd in the EL final with another all English final two years before that.
I do think my one eyed friend has a point, but if the PL is weak, then European football must be even weaker.
I guess with the end of the great Barca sides, and Real running out of luck in CL, we are left with Bayern, PSG and the English sides. Serie A has been a poor league for years now.
Does the lack of meaningful competition in most big leagues (PL aside) means sides struggle in Europe, or do they just buy up all the good players and thus reinforce their own domestic dominance.
It's a weird one.
I do agree that the English sides will be favourites for the CL next year though. Them, Bayern and possibly PSG. With the three big Spanish sides all capable of taking a scalp or two, but probably not quite good enough to go the while way.
I'd also say the two English sides in the EL, and whoever ends up in the European Conference, will be among the favourites for that as well. Though if Juve miss out on the CL (please please please) they will be up there in EL.