Comments on: L’Ã‰quipe’s All-Star Best XI of 2007

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 09:07:32 +0000

gerrard is amazing and who ever said why he is up there learn sumthing bout football.

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:30:25 +0000

ok sorry bout the best team is

PterCech/Buffon

Terry Ferdinand/Carvalho

Alves/Essien Abidal/Evra
DeJong Senna

Sneijder/Arshavin
Ronaldo/Messi Van Der Vaart

Adebayor/Torres/Villa

By: Sally

Sally — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:21:28 +0000

As for me, I believe the Premier League is not overrated, come to think of it..Is the best and that is simple. This year CL…we have four terms from the pL..Arsenal, Man U. Liverpool and Chelsea..what happend to La liga, seria A and others…

By: UFO

UFO — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:04:04 +0000

I think benfica has stillething to say in this year portuguese league

By: Toby

Toby — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:07:16 +0000

———Casillas——-
—-Ferdinand—Gallas—
Lahm—————–Evra
——-Essien-Pirlo——
Ronaldo————-Messi
———–Kaka———-
———–RVN———–

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:23:01 +0000

[Walt, TX]
While I wait on your response, allow me to adress another point in your original statement:
“and thats why is actually EASIER to shine in premier league if you play for one of the big 4″

I disagree somewhat…
It is easier for a shark to stand out if he swims in a pool with sardines. For him to stand out amongst other sharks, he have to be something really special.

By: Karl

Karl — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:05:33 +0000

Walt, TX
In your original statement you speak about stars and average/mediocre players that make the league unbalanced.

Now you mention numbers of championship winnings as your reason?

In order for me to attempt to prove that the other leagues are JUST AS unbalanced, I need to know what you base your argument on.

So, which is it?

By: Walt, TX

Walt, TX — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:01:52 +0000

These numbers, I think, support my claim about the highly unbalance nature of PL:
TEAMS CROWNED CHAMPIONS LAST 10 YEARS IN DIFFERENT LEAGUES:

Premier League: 3 teams: Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea.

Serie A: 5 teams: Inter, Milan, Juventus, Roma, Lazio

La Liga: 4 teams: Real Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Deportivo

Portuguese La Liga: 4 teams: Porto, Benfica, Sporting, Boavista

Bundesliga: 5 teams: Bayern, Stuttgart, Bremen, Dortmund, Kaiserlautern

So, not only PL is the league with fewer champs in the last 10 years but, if I looked right, the 3 champs plus Liverpool have always made it top 5 in those 10 seasons!!! nothing like that has happened in any of the other leagues! In all other leagues the first 5 places have shifted considerably and even in Bundesliga we have a case of a champion in the last 10 years playing now second division (Kaiserlautern).
So if you only follow superficially other leagues it seems that the only teams are Barcelona, Real, Bayern, Porto, but the truth is, there is a little more to it, at least when compared to PL…

By: peejay

peejay — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:35:03 +0000

I’m guessing you didn’t watch Quaresma when he played in a real league. In case you didn’t notice, he only lasted a year.

Deco’s good, not as good as some say but he’s good, though something of a late bloomer.

Pepe and Carvalho are both good but neither of them are good enough to justify their high transfer fees.

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:17:16 +0000

@Walt, TX
You said:
“Premier League is overrated, they have 4 big teams with all the stars in the world and then a bunch of teams with mostly average to mediocre players and the occasional revelation. This makes the league highly unbalanced”

On the same point,
- How balanced are Serie A? (only really Inter, AC, maybe Juventus)
- How balanced are La Liga? (only really Barca, Real)
- Portugese? (Porto)
- etc?