BBZ do you think out with Barca La Liga is weaker as a whole than ten years ago?
Do you agree the top 5/6 teams are better than 5 years ago and the CL a higher standard?
I don't have an opinion about top 5-6 teams.
In 2000's Valencia played CL finals, and Deportivo was always in knockout rounds of a CL.
Let's say it this way:
2000:
-- Barca+Real were earning 20 Millions per Season
-- Valencia, Depor, Atletico, XX team = 10 Millions per Season
-- all other teams = 5 Millions per Season
2015:
-- Barca+Real=100 Millions per Season
-- Atletico, Sevilla, Valencia, xx=30 Millions per Season
-- all other teams = 5 Millions per Season
So, you see, it is irrelevant how strong are top 5-6 teams.
The problem with statpading came from matches against bottom 10 teams.
In 2000-2005, we were winning 2:0 and 3:0 on average against those bottom teams.
Today, we are winning 6:0 and 8:0 against them.
So, you see, statpading goals didn't came against Real, Atletico or Valencia (even though you can win 5:0 sometimes even here), but on larger sample, the difference between Barca+Real and bottom 10 teams from La liga is much larger now than in 1995, 2000 or 2005.
So, goals against top 10 teams are more or less the same, or only slightly higher.
But we (Barca and Real) score much more against those bottom teams, and this is why we jumped from 70-80 goals from La liga to 100-110-120 lately.
And this is why our key Fcs jumped from 25-30 goals to 40-50 goals.
So, forget that argument about Sevilla and Atletico in a CL or Uefa cup.
It has nothing to do with statpading.
Cordoba, Almeria and similar clubs (and our huge rise in income) caused these problems.