No Soy Galáctico
Benny Blanco
Porto will sign some new kid. It is a kinder league in Portugal to nurture young South Americans, much like the SPL it has no competition whatsoever and they still have their top goalscorer in the Hulk 
State of La Liga
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Their owners have money, which is not the same thing. In Getafe case they sold all the best players and made no significant investment. Same with Racing. These clubs don't represent any sort of competitiveness in La Liga.
La Furia
Legion of Doooom
I don't, for all I know Piatti suffers a career ending injury in the first game of the season and in which case they will seriously miss Mata.
But based on their performances last season and in pre-season, while Mata was very much one of the main players for them, he was much more a cog in the machine, so to speak, than a dominant force. He was certainly a lot less individually dominant than Villa and Silva were, and yet last season without those two Valencia actually closed the gap on Real Madrid (assuming that, as most of your ilk claim, it wasn't that Madrid got worse, because of course there's no way Madrid didn't improve with the brilliant Mourinho compared to Pellegrini, who you and Beast reviled), won the same amount of games and had the same amount of points. They scored less goals but their goal difference was only 1 less, if anything the sale of Silva and Villa made them more balanced.
Valencia made a lot of impressive attacking signings this summer. Piatti was arguably the La Liga steal of the season, he's been one of the most consistently good wingers in La Liga for a while now and at 22 playing for a much better team, there's a good chance he will be even better this year. He's been on fire in pre-season. While Canales is raw, before Madrid got their hands on him he was hyped as one of the best new talents to come out of Spain and on a team where he will actually have a role he could easily rediscover his racing form.
Add in Rami, a better defender than any CB Valencia has had since Albiol wasn't a disaster, and a young team that will have experience playing together for one more year, and you have a squad that, even without Mata and without the money reinvested, is arguably still stronger than it was last year. And if a fraction of that money reinforces the defense further, even if it's only bringing back Own Goal Albiol, you have a team that is deeper and more balanced than they were before.
The following players can play in Mata's role:
Piatti
Jonas
Feghouli
Canales
Bernat
Jordi Alba (he's being converted to a more defensive player though, but he spent most of his career as a winger)
That's a lot of mostly young talent. Chances are one of them will be able to make the most of this opportunity.
dalitis8
Banned
As for the competitiviness of La Liga, well, I do not really mind if the 3rd placed team is 20 to 30 points behind the 2nd placed as long as that 2nd placed team is called Real Madrid.
I do not mind the lopsided competition so much, but I would definitely like Valencia and Atletico to be stronger. But fact of the matter is that it is not only due to the schewed TV revenue deals that those 2 teams are far below par, they also have themselves to blame. Their story for the past few years or so, has been one of consecutive blunders.
As for competing with the EPL, then we have to acknowledge a very crude and important fact. The EPL has been lucky enough to attract Mr. Roman Abrahmovic and the oil Arabs. So let's make a simple mind experiment.
Say that Roman abondons Chelsea with its debts, and instead buys Atletico and pumps as much money into them, as he did with Chelski. Then the Arabs tire of Man Citeh, and buy Espanyol instead?
Then please tell me, what league will be more powerful? And more competitive? Under such a scenario, La Liga would totally dominate Europe.
Imagine then that the EPL would be totally dominated by Man Utd, the second power would be the current Arsenal (imagine that) with Loserpool 3rd. Whereas La Liga would have Barca, Madrid, and massively rich Atletico and Espanyol, with Malaga, Valencia and Villarreal following far behind.
In any case, as long as Barca kicks serious ass in Europe, I care little about anything else.
I do not mind the lopsided competition so much, but I would definitely like Valencia and Atletico to be stronger. But fact of the matter is that it is not only due to the schewed TV revenue deals that those 2 teams are far below par, they also have themselves to blame. Their story for the past few years or so, has been one of consecutive blunders.
As for competing with the EPL, then we have to acknowledge a very crude and important fact. The EPL has been lucky enough to attract Mr. Roman Abrahmovic and the oil Arabs. So let's make a simple mind experiment.
Say that Roman abondons Chelsea with its debts, and instead buys Atletico and pumps as much money into them, as he did with Chelski. Then the Arabs tire of Man Citeh, and buy Espanyol instead?
Then please tell me, what league will be more powerful? And more competitive? Under such a scenario, La Liga would totally dominate Europe.
Imagine then that the EPL would be totally dominated by Man Utd, the second power would be the current Arsenal (imagine that) with Loserpool 3rd. Whereas La Liga would have Barca, Madrid, and massively rich Atletico and Espanyol, with Malaga, Valencia and Villarreal following far behind.
In any case, as long as Barca kicks serious ass in Europe, I care little about anything else.
Ode to Django
You're not even a real journalism
Well the EPL has been pretty much a two horse race for years now with only Chelsea & United capable of winning, lets face it Arsenal were never going to win as they are complete bottlers, now three teams can win it now with City but only recently, Madrid & Barca have unbelievable squads and are the two best teams in Europe for sure and i think by some distance too, i think some could argue that Madrid have been bad in Europe for the past 5 years or so but they reached the semi's & if they faced anybody but Barca they probably would've been in the finals, how on earth could Valencia/Sevilla get anywhere near Barca/Madrid with those squads.
It's pretty much a two horse race in every league it's just Madrid/Barca are miles ahead of everyone and in Europe too, the reason the gap isn't as massive in the EPL is because Chelsea/Utd really aren't that special, the creativity in their teams is terrible moreso Chelsea than United
It's pretty much a two horse race in every league it's just Madrid/Barca are miles ahead of everyone and in Europe too, the reason the gap isn't as massive in the EPL is because Chelsea/Utd really aren't that special, the creativity in their teams is terrible moreso Chelsea than United
dalitis8
Banned
The EPL, has been a 2 horse race if you look at the titles.
But, the points dropped and the overall level of competitiveness is has been higher in the EPL than in La Liga in the past 3 years.
But in any case, the EPL owes large part of its strength to Roman and the Arabs, without them, EPL and La Liga would have been equal. But why do we care anyway? Don't we have the best in the world?
That is the most important thing.
But, the points dropped and the overall level of competitiveness is has been higher in the EPL than in La Liga in the past 3 years.
But in any case, the EPL owes large part of its strength to Roman and the Arabs, without them, EPL and La Liga would have been equal. But why do we care anyway? Don't we have the best in the world?
That is the most important thing.
RedMadridista
The Troll Hunter
Over Liverpool? Yes. Over Arsenal? No.
dalitis8
Banned
The Sevilla of a few years back, yes, not the current version.
But yes, the game at the Emirates on Saturday, was dire.
dalitis8
Banned
Loserpool will beat you again this year.
RedMadridista
The Troll Hunter
No, when United get the 20th title this season..... It'll be even sweeter when United beat Liverpool.
dalitis8
Banned
You are prolly gonna get that 20th, but Loserpool find a way to beat you almost every single season.
It goes on and on...
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Catalonian Devil
Shukran Pep
Thread was awesome up until post 19...
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