Losmeister wrote:interesting about the suffering...
question... does Rm suffereing against Barca every year in La LIga ( not meaning just not winning, cos they do win the liga sometimes, but that opponent who is just such a strong rival and threat to your success) help them struggle through win the UCL? ( and vice versa, barac blowing wad v Rm and la liga making them more compacent iun UCL?)
It's why La Liga is currently the best league in the world in terms of preparing teams for European conquest imo
Before anyone gets butthurt over
muh Premier League, the PL has the highest collection of talented players throughout the league, but La Liga is the most technical league in the world.
It's also why Bayern, Juve, and PSG struggle in Europe; there aren't any other clubs in their respective leagues that can match their technical ability and give them a challenge week in week out.
On the flip side, the PL is a huge, physical dogfight, but compared to many PL clubs' mainland contemporaries, PL teams as a whole lack the technical ability to go toe-to-toe with them. However, this is changing with many top foreign managers plying their trade in the PL now, so there's a good chance we'll see PL clubs claw back power in the coming years.
La Liga just about has the perfect balance between technical ability and level of weekly competition right now, which is why United is the only non-Spanish club to win a European competition in the past 5 seasons, and even they were a few inches away from losing the semifinal tie to Celta Vigo.