Dutch star Frenkie de Jong has hinted that he regrets moving to Barcelona instead of Manchester City.
De Jong is loving life at the Nou Camp – but has now admitted that the Premier League is superior to La Liga.
He said: “I used to think that La Liga was the strongest football league in the world. You could see their dominance in European Cup competitions.
“The Spanish clubs always progressed a long way and often grabbed the main trophies, the Champions League and Europa League.
“But the Premier League has gained power over the last few years.
“When it comes to pure skills, La Liga is better. But because of the sheer intensity, the English competition is at a slightly higher level.”
Koeman confirmed that he urged Guardiola to sign De Jong and his Holland team-mate Matthijs de Ligt when they were leaving Ajax.
De Ligt joined Juventus when the financial package again became too rich for the Blues.
Koeman said: “I had discussed two names with Pep for a long while – and those names were Frenkie de Jong and Matthijs de Ligt.
“Pep was wild about the type of midfielder Frenkie is. He wanted to know all about him.”
3Viveking
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The thing is sharp no body want to play under a boring coach valvarde... Even city is not at their peak Pep is still best. It's great honor to play under him. but Laliga best league Epl best entertainer league
DilshanKoralage
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EPL is competitive coz other than Liverpool and M.City, all other teams are equal and well below the standards of LaLiga. When it comes to LaLiga, Barca,Madrid or Atletico are not dominant in the league. They all have risk of loosing. That’s the competition within the leagu. You can see the results of UCL round of 16 this time and decide which is the strongest league. There are 4 teams each from both leagues.
ibarusha
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Let me reapet my comment here about what de jong said about EPL just like I did last week and some people were acting abnormal to reply my comment but I can't give up to say the truth about how EPL make my days. EPL is the best football league in world .This is because it's competitive league, when you find out in other leagues you find that one team ,two or three teams are the ones that compete for the trophy every season but in EPL every start of the season contenders of league trophy are more than 7 to 10 teams .any team team can beat big teams and lift the trophy .good example is Leicester city ,they came from championship and spend one season and the following season they lifted league trophy. another example is is Wolverhampton wanders ,they came from championship and tried they lucky to qualify in Europa league until they managed to find themselves in knockout while they're looking like they're favourable side to beat the opponents (Espanyol) according to their performance this season.you can even take a look on how citizens( The champions) lost triple on wolves this season ( they lost to wolves both home and away games plus Asia cup final on penalties ). now how can you tell me that EPL is not competitive league after seeing all these things and performance of teams in EPL or how Liverpool lost their chance to lift the league 3 times (they became league leaders 3times before Christmas and fail to make it because of how competitive this league is)when it was looking like they're favourite for it. At this time only Liverpool and confused citizens (because of injuries and mistakes during the game) are the ones that are having longest win stake but other big teams are loosing to small teams because of how competitive this league is .
kennically
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Premier League is the most competitive league with the numbers of best coaches around the world. Guadiola, Klopp,Mourinoh, Ancelotti etc These coaches alone has many leagues,leagues cups and champions leagues trophies to their names. Before, we used to see them together in one championship i.e Champions league but now we have the privilege to see them together in a league and what did u expect. Such league is definitely going to be the best. All the premier teams are extremely reach, so this makes it easy for almost all the teams to be at per thus making it more challenging, from big 4 to big 6 and then to big... What the Aston Villa spent before the season began was more than the value of Alaves in La liga as a whole. U can imaging what this means in LA liga.;The gap between the Madrid,Barcelona,A Madrid and others are very big thus minimizing upset and monopolising league leader. Barcelona won LA liga 8 times in 11seasons. The slot for Champions league is another factor that has made it this strong. As it stand we have big Six, and among them four slot for champions leagues meaning the have to fight every week to earn a place in it. Unlike elsewhere where is like a birth right because other teams are extremely low to them. This biggest teams in LA liga always go for the best players elsewhere why the EPL has focused on the best Coaches elsewhere in the recent years, And that has been their strength.
Deakpsyz
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EPL is full of match fixing and that is one major reason FIFA will never be in good terms with the English FA,the English FA decides,who wins the league, who make the top four and the three teams who goes down every season.I can beat my chest and say,i knows the league more than 50% of the people watching the league worldwide.After the Liverpool game against Man city,a sport journalist said and I quote, maybe the English FA have decided this seasons EPL is for Liverpool, as a compensation for ending the dominance of the Spanish teams in Europe's top flight competition,he continues by saying,their are two or more EPL games Liverpool should have dropped points,but VAR ruled to their favour and Liverpool eventually won those games. The match against Manchester city tells it all, you do not need a sorcerer to tell you Liverpool was favoured and Manchester city were robbed.I am not disputing the fact that Liverpool is in the best of form right now, but let the English FA take their hands off the game and let every team fight for their rightful position.This is not the EPL we once know,the league has lost it's passion and competitiveness for the title. You can agree with me or not, but a fact have been stated for you to make your research.