have you considered that the so called competitiveness maybe not because all the teams are getting close in quality to each other not by improving but rather because the top teams in the league are losing the plot over time?
In that logic the I-League is the most competitive league, let alone the BPL...
and as for Chelsea being champs etc etc... yes, and to quote the so called Special One 'Only a domestic League Win tells you what the quality of a team is - Knockout tournaments cannot judge the quality of a team, you can have a couple of bad days, bad calls and suddenly you are either champions or knocked out'
We all know how Chelsea became champs... lets not get into that... they did show their quality as 'Champions' in the subsequent season though...
like corsair's reasoning about winning a CL being 'dominant', is the key word here. The reason teams like Barca now inspite of not being the CL winners in 2010 or 2012, were still considered the de facto best team in that period... you become no. 1 not just by the trophies you win, but how you totally show yourselves to be much ahead of the pack...
Chlesea and City were undone by poor planning and signing,,
Chelsea and City have the most talented starting 11 but where they went wrong this season is not having good enough back ups
in chelseas case , it was a matter of fixture congestion , they were playing around 3 matches a week travelling all around the world,
Inpsite of that, they are 3rd in league, reached the semis of both carling and fa cup, in the europa cup semis as well,
they have virtually played almost all the matches a club in europe could play except for the Carling cup and Fa cup final.. so how are they doing bad,,?
true , they performed poorly in the UCL, but again it was to be expected ..after last years win took its toll on the players, they just were not up for it mentally
ABout City, again it was more due to poor signings, they started doing poorly in the league in December when Yaya and Kompany had to miss games, even Silva missed some games, they had no decent back up players, its completely their own fault,
Admist this take a look at United squad, apart from RVP and Rooney who maybe a class apart from rest of the squad, they hardly missed anyone due to injuries or suspensions, they could change 9 players without actually weakening their squad,and so they could play their Pl matches at the full intensity, unlike Chlesea who must have dropped a lot of points this season in the last 15 min in many of their games this seasons, it speaks volumes for Fergies planning and I agree wit what u said abt Jose, Cups are not a indication of the best team/Squad and that is wat i said earlier this season, that United will walk the league this season but will prob lose out on the cups..
Fergie spend a lot this season on players like RVP, kagawa, Powell, Zaha ..but apart from RVp, none has made that much of an impact and no one is questioning the big money spend on the other 3 players as well, we will prob see the 3 other players making their impact on the league in mayb 3 -4 years , only Fergie could get away spending money like that , he is doing a fine job by keeping a large squad enough to challenge for the league and at the same not disrupting the balance of the side..
funny guy and has built a class team playing excellent football.
