Lord_Percy wrote:
Oh, I agree. For all the talk about this being the best in the world (which is highly debatable) and the richest (which it almost certainly is) the players signed have, in the main, not been the very, very best players. We've had good players, sure, but the real quality inevitably still ends up in Spain or Italy.
I'm not sure, English clubs never really sign established 'BIG' name players, but then, how many clubs are willing to sell those players?
We sign top players and they become world class in England.
Just think, Chelsea have signed the likes of Drogba, Carvalho, Ballack, Essien, Shevchenko, Lampard and Robben as top players, and turned them into world class players (although Robben has left for a very tidy profit). Forget Shevva in that, but he was signed as world class.
When you say 'the real quality', what do you mean?
I'm sure Italian/Spanish clubs would love the likes of Fabregas, Adebayor, Sagna, Clichy, RVP, Torres, Mascherano, Alonso, Rooney, Ronaldo, Berbatov, Vidic, Ferdinand, Carvalho, Ballack (in his day), Lampard and many more.
I think Italian clubs are vastly overrated, and ever since the relegation of Juve, that league's been on the slide for a while now.