That league is at a far higher level to LOI, so there's no point comparing it. Saying that premier league players are much better than LOI players tells you nothing about the technical ability of English players as a whole - had Robbie Keane been playing they'd have said the same about him I'm sure. There are also almost 340 foreign players in the premier league - that's an average of 17 per team!
The fact of the matter is that, technically, English players are way behind players from France, Spain, Holland and most of the other major footballing nations. That's not just my opinion by the way, that's the opinion of Trevor Brooking and plenty of other people. It's pretty indicative that the top 4 teams in the premier league would barely have 10 English players in their respective starting elevens.
There's a lot of sensible stuff on this thread - am i in the right place here?
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