So, /sp/, how long before the Russian League catches up to the EPL, LaLiga and Serie A? It's like a fucking league of Chelsealike teams. Zenit is already starting to spend big, and the rest are likely to follow soon...would a fourth superpower be a good or bad thing?
lol, no
5 years, 10 at most.
50 years
Serie A is a joke.La Liga and EPL are the big two.The second tier is french, german and italian.
>>298152Serie A may be weaker right now, but, with Juve back, they'll be back to rub shoulders with LaLiga and the EPL in a few years.The Russian League probably has more money than any other league in the world, the only question is, are they willing to spend it.
>>298152Serie A a joke? They have the strongest league from top to bottom. If the English and Americans would realize a league is 20 teams, not 4 they'd realize this.
>>298170Serie A may be more competitive than the EPL, but still not as much as LaLiga.But still, agreed on the fact that the EPL is damn boring.
No foreigners want to live in Russia, it's a shithole. That will stop them from being a superpower. They'll overtake the netherlands, and possibly France
>>298173EPL boring? So a ten point difference between winner and runner-up is more exciting than finding out the winner on the final day?
>>298165Hahahaha oh wow. Juve couldn't beat Man United's Youth Team.>>298170Man City beat AC Milan with there second rate team. AC had about 4 first team players missing and still got beat by Chedwyn Evans, Daniel Sturridge and other 18-19 year olds.Serie A is shit. The football is shit. The managers are shit. Some of their players are good, Del Piero, De Rossi, etc, but the rest are just typical cheating Italians.
>>298249Moron. I'm from England and even I know that Brazilians flock there.
>>298249England is the shittest country in the world. Yet, your teams offer a lot more money, so players come.
>>298258Brazilian football players invariably grew up poor and they will go anywhere for the money.
>>298256ManC<random Danish club, hence EPL<Danish leagueFUCK YEAH
Years. It has to go through Portugal, German, France which are still considered more prestigious leagues to play in.
>>298278Portugal is a 3 team league
>>298299Same in all the big leagues
>>298258Brazilians maybe, but what about Spaniards. Can you imagine Torres leaving Liverpool to join CSKA Moscow?Or Ronaldo making as big a fuss to join Zenit as he did to try to join Real? I don't think so
Never, no one wants to live in Russia, hopefuls will go to Russia to try to get noticed to go the EPL, serie A, or La Liga.
Give them 5 years at least. The oligarchs keep pouring more cash into those teams, but they are still a long ways away. They are definately second tier now, on par or just below the Bundesliga and Ligue 1. The only real problem is the huge, huge gap between teams like Zenita, Spartak and CSKA, and the lower tier teams like Shinnik Yaroslavl and KhimkiIf the trend continues, i could definately see this league being another top tier league. It would certainly make things interesting.
>>300648Plus, the Russian stars, Andrei Arshavin, Pavyluchenko, Vagner Love, and Daniel Carvalho arent as high calibre as the top tier league's talents like Serie A's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, EPLs Torres or Ronaldo, or La Liga's David Villa
I dunno, interesting thought though. I don't think it'll get quite as big as the three you mentioned in the foreseeable future but it could definitely get bigger than the rest of the leagues in Europe
>>300683Why not? Most of the teams have their own Abramovich. When Zenit start spending, dominating the league and getting results in Europe, you can be sure the rest of them will follow.
>>300688Basically because of what>>298342said. They'll still get beaten to the signatures of the very best players by the big teams in the other three leagues.
>>300693Chelsea just offered huge amounts of money to every player they wanted, and they came. Of course the league is not as prestigious, but a lot of players don't care, when they get twice the money.
I think it'd be great to have another strong league.
>>300698Well yeah that's the thing, the league isn't as good or prestigious. Most players, when given the chance between playing for Real Madrid for £90,000 a week, or CSKA Moscow for £130,000 a week would pick the former.
>>300704True, but it depends on the players position within the team. They may chose Real even if they offer them less money, if they are guaranteed first team football...if not, they'll go for the richer offer.
>>300710Well yeah, exactly, then that player isn't good enough to be in the first team at Real, so I don't think the Russian league will catch up anytime soon, unless a load of talented Russian kids start to come through or the Russian teams buy some relatively unknown players who turn out to be world beaters.
>>300715If a player isn't an automatic starter in a club like Real, doesn't mean he's not a great player. And I'm not saying, that players will just start flocking to the Russian league, but year by year they're going to get closer, and as they do, the league gets more attractive to players.
>>300724I'm not talking about the league being prestigious, I'm talking about Russia being a shithole. Would you rather live in London or St Petersburg?
>>300757Oh c'mon. You can't compare Barcelona, Madrid, Milan,... to Russia, but London is just as big a shithole than St.Petersburg or any other Russian city. England is not a very attractive country to foreign countries, far behind Italy, and Spain in particular.
>>300767England is not a very attractive country to foreign playersfix'd