WHICH IS THE BEST: LA LIGA OR THE BPL?

At the beginning of each season football fans are at loggerheads over which league is the best in Europe, the fans of English clubs believe the BPL is the best in Europe while the fans of Spanish clubs tend to disagree. I would not take sides here because that would just make things more blown out of proportion however, what I would do is highlight reasons why these two leagues are the best in their respective ways.

First the BPL is a very lucrative league, it has more investors in the league and the clubs are mostly owned by individuals. All the clubs in the top flight get a share of TV rights as all of the matches are shown on tv and for that reason alone any player would want to play in the BPL as even if you are not in the top clubs at least you would still be seen on TV. For the La Liga however it is not so, the TV rights are negotiated by individual clubs that is Barcelona has the right to negotiate with a particular TV station to show all its league matches played at their home ground and so the lower clubs suffer because little of their matches are being shown and they don’t have the kind of money to buy top players or they don’t have the players that can fire them into European competitions.

 The La Liga has produced more top players than any league in Europe and it attracts more South American players maybe because they speak similar languages or their style is similar but the point is the La Liga gives younger players more opportunities than the BPL. In the last seven years a Spanish club (Barcelona 2006, 2009, 2011) has won the UCL 3 times while the BPL has produced 2 winners (Manchester United 2008 and Chelsea 2012). Unlike the English clubs the Spanish clubs field more Spanish players and home grown while the English clubs whose owners are more interested in trophies than youth development go to the transfer window and buy players from all around the world to fulfill their thirst for trophies. Even Spanish coaches enjoy strings of jobs in the Spanish league while the English league is a home for all European coaches to ply their trade. That is one reason why the English national team has failed to perform at FIFA World Cup and the Euro cup alike and the Spanish national team has won the Euro Cup back to back and the world cup in between, though they failed to win the Confederation cup but still they got to the finals which shows that they are still a force to reckon with.

I do not know the side you are on but I am doubly sure that the aims of this two leagues are different, while one league is channeled to make the nation get more trophies and accolades the other is channeled to give the individual shareholders (from fans to the owners of the respective clubs) a satisfaction of their input throughout the season.

If you pitch an Almeria team and a stoke team today the Stoke team might defeat the Almeria team but if two years to come the players of the Almeria team would either be playing in the Stoke team or at bigger clubs in England and around the world.