The Premier league

[rascal]

What should be done to ensure that it closes the gap on La Liga in terms of European performance?

 

[ijjysmith]

Have better players.

 

[Sunderland afc]

Pay the players more. The poor bairns mustn't get enough.

 

[dholliday]

What should be done to ensure that it closes the gap on La Liga in terms of European performance?

Grass roots and development of British youngsters & coaches should vastly improve.

 

[Sunderland afc]

Grass roots and development of British youngsters & coaches should vastly improve.

Currently doing my coaching badge and if people buy into it, they will.

 

[dholliday]

Currently doing my coaching badge and if people buy into it, they will.

good luck, kidda! hope you preach fluid formation and two-footedness. British lads I feel really need that inbred into their game.

 

[Sunderland afc]

good luck, kidda! hope you preach fluid formation and two-footedness. British lads I feel really need that inbred into their game.

6 and 7 year olds, just happy if they don't cry.

 

[dholliday]

6 and 7 year olds, just happy if they don't cry.

haha! treat 'em mean to keep 'em keen. Good luck, mate.

 

[Rook]

What should be done to ensure that it closes the gap on La Liga in terms of European performance?

You want the current top 4 to get better players?

 

[rascal]

You want the current top 4 to get better players?

i'd suggest that the top four has the players to perform better in Europe than they currently do.

 

[Pat's Van]

I don't have any ideas on how to close the gap between ourselves and Spain

not geographically anyway

 

[dholliday]

I don't have any ideas on how to close the gap between ourselves and Spain

not geographically anyway

time machine

 

[ste d' indica]

The fundamental obstacle might be the competitiveness of La Liga vs. the PL. With two teams dominating La Liga, they're essentially just fighting each other for dominance with the odd exception (like Atletico this year). Whereas we've got 4-5 teams a year fighting for it, plus a couple of tough domestic cups against often stubborn opposition. I don't know the Spanish leagues/cups too well, but do cup upsets happen that often for example?

 

[Woolly Blue]

I don't have any ideas on how to close the gap between ourselves and Spain

not geographically anyway

Given time, plate tectonics might sort that out.

Anyway, back to the question

What should be done to ensure that it closes the gap on La Liga in terms of European performance?

Not sure that much needs to be done, I suspect these things just go in phases and some time in the next 5 to 10 years it'll swing around again.

 

[Pat's Van]

Not sure that much needs to be done, I suspect these things just go in phases and some time in the next 5 to 10 years it'll swing around again.

I think it'll be Bundesliga's turn at the top of the tree next

or perhaps the frenchies, whose division is called L' Premiere Ligue I think