Well, the start, no one has ever cared about German football, period. Krautball can fuck off and die, for anyone cares. The reasons for this include a) Bayern has complete control over an overall very weak league; an incredibly weak league, and when Bayern does no win the league, it appears very contrived. b) Germans play with zero imagination. c) their marketing is shit. d) too much corruption surrounding their league with Sepp Blatter gifting them CL placement based on EL coefficient points, yet in the past decade+ they have only 1 fucking win. Serie A has faceraped every german about 3 times. La Liga has done it like 5 or so. I lost count. But in short, Germans are at the same level as the Portugal League.
La Liga, what a year! Atletico coming in from out of nowhere to turn it into a three horse race for the first time in what feels like a decade. Diego Simeone is a great manager. I am glad he's staying put. Atletico has a great system and it finally paid dividends on the pitch (rather than the banks, when they sell talent). Barcelona needs this. So does Madrid. The lower the talent of the league, the less chance to grow during a season and be battle hardened for a CL victory, and that's what it's all about.
But the most exciting league this year has been the Premier League. A lot of things happened. First of all, Americans got NBC sports to show every game on the pitch, in HD quality, live, every match week. Incredible. The quality of the games shown was so high compared to anything from any other league, making everything else virtually unwatchable. And who cared what was happening in Italy or Germany or France, etc? Each week there was a firm chance that the top team was going to be overtaken.
And that happened after the season started and Man City went to the top, then Chelsea, then Arsenal, then Liverpool, and back and forth. And during this we saw the best season of Yaya Toure's life, as he banged in goals from spot kicks like he thought he was Beckham or Juninho. We saw Arsenal open the purse strings on Ozil, which was completely weird, because that type of spending hasn't happened since David Dein was forced out. The calls for "Wenger Out" and "SHOOOT FOR FUCK SAKES" have turned into "SPEND!" And right now people are expect a lot of that. We are walking into a transfer window where a lot of top shelf talent is going to be on the market, as FFP is finally being imposed on PSG and Man City, and neither team will appeal. The coming firesale from each side will see the transfers of Cabaye, Lavezzi, Cavani, Pastore, Kolorov, Micah Richards, Dzeko and Jovatic. I would personally love to see Jesus Navas leave Man City, but not sure if Manuel Pelligrini is willing to let him go. Navas is a bad ass who should be playing over 30 games somewhere, not coming off the bench.
Personally, as a Serie A fan, I felt a bit cheated. Juventus managed something dubiously spectacular in winning the league with less wins than when they went undefeated. Either the Serie A league sucks or it's crooked. But either way, it spells really bad things for the future of Italy. It's in the best interests of Italians to have Juventus investigated again, and I know they are sick of it, but something has to happen or this will continue to decay until Italians can call themselves Turks, and rename Juventus into Galatasaray or summat. The colossal flop of Fiorentina against relegation struggling Sassuolo was laughable - it's like, hey you purple florentines can stand to lose, but these newly promoted green dudes have their own major stadium, sort of (it's owned by Mapei who practically own the team), so just lose guys. Just lose. Here's a nice wrist watch. Just lose.
