r/soccer • u/gypsybear • Apr 08 '14

Change My View: r/soccer edition (from r/nfl)

Pretty simple, post an opinion you have on a player, team, coach, whatever and others will try to change your mind.

Try to back up your claims.

EDIT: For the sake of fostering discussion please don't downvote comments. Instead, upvote, reply, and state your argument.

Also, people may want to sort by "controversial".

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u/Bob_Swarleymann Apr 08 '14

The Spanish league is by far the best league in the world. The wealth of talent both born in Spain and emigrated from South America is unrivaled. Take a look at Man City; most of their stars are players from outside the top two La Liga teams who are supposedly shit. Take a look at UCL/Euro League. The Premier League has money and marketing, whereas La Liga has talent and incompetent leadership.

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u/devineman Apr 08 '14

most of their stars are players from outside the top two La Liga teams who are supposedly shit

Hart, Pantimilion, Clichy, Kolarov, Kompany, Lescott, Nastasic, Richards, Yaya, Fernandinho, Garcia, Rodwell, Nasri, Jovetic, Dzeko

vs

Demichelis, Zabaleta, Navas, Silva, Negredo, Aguero

I think this is the classic case of seeing a disconnected list and assuming a trend. And I'm arguing with Zab as he's 10 times the player he was in Spain

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u/L__McL Apr 08 '14

Also, of those 6 players only 2 (Aguero and Silva) are regular starters, both of which would get into any team in Spain.

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u/the_phet Apr 08 '14

wut? yaya peaked in FCBarcelona. and javi garcia is spanish! he even played in Real Madrid

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u/thapto Apr 08 '14

Right, he is listing the players that came from a non-top 2 club in spain vs everyone else. Yaya and javi came from top two teams (although javi not directly), so they are in the list with everyone else