Is The Premiership Overrated?

After last nights showing of England being totally outclassed by Italy and struggled in the group games. For me the Premiership is overrated everyone bangs on how the Premiership is the greatest league in the world it is only good because of the foreign players if you take the foreign players out the League be at sub standard. When you see the foreign players in the Premiership players such as Silva, Aguero, Suarez and V. Persie what English players would come near to them? Rooney maybe but he has shown he can't preform on the big stages for England. On all the major stages the English players have flopped. This thread is not having a pop at the English but the Premiership is only good because of the foreign players.

The english players are overrated. The league is actually pretty good because of alot of quality foreigners. The likes of Komany, Vidic, Silva, Modric, Nani, Van Persie etc make the league the high standard it is. Alot of these guys are so good they can hide the flaws of english players.

The league is quality but the Englishmen are not (bar a few)

The league is fine, but Rooney/Cashley aside there's not one top tier Englishman alive playing football. And since the overwhelming majority of the league is foreign it's not really fair to base the league off of England's performance.

Nope. It is consistently one of the best leagues in the world, the European performances and quality of play in the league reflect that.

May aswell rename this thread "Another anti-English thread I'm trying to disguise"

Why would the fact that the best players in the league being foreign make the league overrated?

One of the most stupid sentences I have ever read.

''Bill Gates is only rich because he has shit-loads of money''

The only reason it's stupid is because every league would suck if you took out the foreigners.

PL players are not just English players...

I think a lot of English fans overrate their league.
It's a very good league, with very good teams, but, to me, it's not the best, and I think many English think it is.
The English players are also not that bad as people paint them, but the NT does need some reworking, if you want them to compete for trophies. You need to go back to 96 for the last time England got to a semi-final, and that isn't good enough.

It is better than La Liga for excitement and drama. Anyone can beat anyone in our league on a given day. In La Liga, you just expect Barcelona and Real Madrid to win it all the time. In terms of technique, obviously there are better leagues out there. German and Italian leagues are getting a lot better now too.

I don't think the premiership is underrated. I mean, most of the champions league finals over the last 10 years have featured English clubs - that says a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Cup_and_UEFA_Champions_League_winners

8 English teams have featured in CL finals since 2004/2005.

That's compared with 3 from Spain, 3 from Italy, and 2 from Germany. Given the sheer quality of the teams involved in the Champions League, that's pretty good going.

However, because the premiership is so widely followed, a lot of Premier League players get over hyped compared with some true greats over the pond that don't quite get the coverage. The Premiership is hugely inflated in terms of exposure these days, so the good English players appear to be great to us, whereas some real gems over in Italy, Germany, and Portugal don't get as much coverage, but are every bit as good if not better than the over-exposed players we've got. Andrea Pirlo, for instance!

If anyone reading this didn't know Andrea Pirlo was an all-time great before this tournament then you're a god damn Philistine, and I will never respect your opinion on anything ever again.

I don't agree. True, the gap between the top teams and the lower teams isn't as great as the ones in Spain. However, if you take Real and Barcelona out, the rest is much more balanced than in England. You had the 3rd place finished only 7 points clear of a side that didn't even make it to the Europa League. And just 17 points between a Champions League position and relegation. You have teams that were playing CL football a couple of years ago being relegated, a team that actually won the Liga 12 years ago, and had 4 2nd and 4 4rd finishes since, and they were relegated last year.
There's plenty of excitement and drama in La Liga, if you look past the eternal duel between those superpowers. And that just adds more fuel to the fire. Because, isn't the Premier League mostly a two horse race as well?

This isn't about the quality of English teams, no one denies that. It's about the leagues, and, given it comes after England's elimination, a question about it's strength if it wasn't for the foreign players.

The Premiership is rated as the best league in the World, which it is.

So no, it's not over-rated.

Well then, let's close the thread. This needs no further discussion.

I said we should have got him last summer "Oh he's too old, they all cried"

Ahh, smug mode.

The Premiership is only the best league in the world because the best foreign players play in it.

I know I probably have just said the same as 10 other people