Rob Dawson
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It's just called by a different name.
The Premier League is the Super League.
They're just teams in Europe.
Most of the teams in Europe can't compete with the financial advantage that the Premier League teams have got.
And you look at, and Tottenham's a great point, Newcastle as well.
You know, Newcastle,
I've struggled at times in the Premier League this year.
They probably have more competitive games in that mid-band Premier League fixtures than they do in the Champions League.
In the Champions League, they've won four out of seven.
Tottenham have won four out of seven as well.
Lost once.
The Premier League, often the argument is, is the Premier League is a strength in depth as strong as La Liga.
You look at the table, Villarreal, who I think are about third or fourth in La Liga or 35th in the Champions League table.
They've drawn one of seven games, lost six.
Athletic Club, who obviously got to the semi-finals of the Europa League last year, are down in 23rd.
The big two in Spain are behemoths in their own right in Barcelona and Real Madrid, but it doesn't say much for the comparable strength of La Liga, that in theory their third or fourth best team in Villarreal are right all the way down in the second from bottom.
That's the interesting thing.
Over the last 20 years, the Premier League haven't generated the number of Champions League winners that they should have done, given the strength of the squads.
And it's all because of that, I think, that when it gets really tough... Guardiola used to go through this thing and it used to happen every single year.
There was a week in April where he said that you would play...