jones wrote:

y va marquer wrote:

Er, no.

You're missing out if you've never played PES6, best football game ever.

Thierry was great to play with. Fucking hell!

est wrote:

Atleti English @atletienglish wrote:

Today is a great day for the Atlético family. The renewal of @Simeone is official! #Simeone2020 

He's not going to City or United any time soon. Good news!

I don't think Simeone will ever leave Atletico. It's 'his' club. He's their biggest icon since Luis Aragonés.

He'll probably take the Argentina job some day, but I'm not sure a national team fits him.

Watching Madrid put Granada to the sword. No defense in this game whosoever. 7 for Real. 4 for Ronaldo.

Geez. Will they make it 10 ?

Granada are horrible. You won't see Premier League teams roll over and play dead like this.

Ronaldo with a power header to make it 5. Putting that thick neck to use. 9-1/

Wtf. I saw up to the 25th min and gave up because it was boring.

Feelsbad.

Ronaldo needed those goals badly, Messi had already overtaken him in the goal scoring charts despite being miles behind earlier on in the season.

it's a rubbish race. Games like today discredit it. Both phenomenal player, but La Liga is a mess

Would be true but they basically do the same to teams in the CL as well.

It's not that the teams are weaker then PL teams, it's just that when Real Madrid lead by a couple of goals, Granada have no incentive to keep trying. Goal difference doesn't count in Spain.

Goal difference does count if the head to head is same and it could very well be that for Granada while not with Madrid but with teams around them.

Even the bottom clubs like Cardiff were signing players of a decent club like Medel who was one of Sevilla's better players while bottom QPR signed Loic Remy from one of the better clubs in France. Could a bottom half club in La Liga do that? Maybe if Madrid and Barcelona equally distributed revenue among other clubs so they could more money as well as market the league better because it'd be more competitive.

Gunner89 wrote:

Goal difference does count if the head to head is same and it could very well be that for Granada while not with Madrid but with teams around them.

It doesn't matter if head to head counts with other teams near them on the table. It's not there these trashings happen. When Real Madrid and Barca lead by two, the losing teams have no incentive because head to head will never count against those teams. 

Barcelona and Real Madrid have both said yes to more equal sharing of TV earnings, but it's not up to them.

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

It's not that the teams are weaker then PL teams, it's just that when Real Madrid lead by a couple of goals, Granada have no incentive to keep trying. Goal difference doesn't count in Spain.

I agree, the quality of La Liga is higher than in England imo and it's not that long ago that Sunderland conceded 8 against Southampton (or four vs Villa in 30 odd minutes). The GD vs head-to-head rule is still something they definitely need to change, along with some of the rules they implemented (handball almost always an automatic yellow card etc).

Quincy Abeyie wrote:

Gunner89 wrote:

Goal difference does count if the head to head is same and it could very well be that for Granada while not with Madrid but with teams around them.

It doesn't matter if head to head counts with other teams near them on the table. It's not there these trashings happen. When Real Madrid and Barca lead by two, the losing teams have no incentive because head to head will never count against those teams. 

Barcelona and Real Madrid have both said yes to more equal sharing of TV earnings, but it's not up to them.

The losing team has incentive because while head to head will not count against madrid or barcelona their goal goal difference might just count against teams close to themselves in the table.

For example if Granada got the same record head to head against their rivals for relegation and with equal points then goal difference would make the difference between who got relegated and that IS a pretty damn big incentive.

Barcelona and Madrid will earn significantly more still next season because there is no equal sharing agreement for another year.

While in PL the goal difference will matter after equal points, in Spain it will matter after equal points and equal head to head. The incentive is much smaller than in England, even if it, as you say, exists.

And yes, small clubs in Spain have much less money than small clubs in England. I don't disagree with that.

Gunner89 wrote:

Goal difference does count if the head to head is same and it could very well be that for Granada while not with Madrid but with teams around them.

Even the bottom clubs like Cardiff were signing players of a decent club like Medel who was one of Sevilla's better players while bottom QPR signed Loic Remy from one of the better clubs in France. Could a bottom half club in La Liga do that? Maybe if Madrid and Barcelona equally distributed revenue among other clubs so they could more money as well as market the league better because it'd be more competitive.

do the bottom la liga clubs even want to do stupid things like that? these are just examples of shitty premier league clubs having money and not knowing what to do with it. so they sign players who make little impact and can't even help keep them up. the poor la liga club gets much needed money to spend properly and show the shitty premier league team how it's done.