Paul Scholes: Top players shun profit-obsessed Premier League clubs
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Paul Scholes says the Premier League will continue to struggle to attract the world's top players as long as clubs focus on making money over winning football games.
England is home to the richest domestic television deal, but in an excerpt from his new book appearing in The Guardian, Scholes said Spanish clubs' recent success in Europe is proof they have pulled away from the Premier League in terms of quality on the pitch.
"The Spanish league's the best by far if you're judging on the European competitions. In the quarterfinals of the Champions League and the Europa League in 2015-16, they had six of the 16 teams. Nearly half of them. The Premier League had just two," he wrote.
Manchester United brought in Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic this summer, but Scholes, a former star at Old Trafford himself, did not list them among the best players currently in England.
"There needs to be a real step up in quality in England. Other than Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva, we don't have the best players. All the best players are in other countries," he wrote.
"The best players are in Spain or at Bayern Munich and Juventus. We're linked with big players -- Gareth Bale is a top player -- but we don't get them now. Not anymore. You never see a Lionel Messi coming over here, you never see a Neymar in the Premier League."
Players like Lionel Messi and Neymar will never come to England, says Paul Scholes.Scholes blamed the lack of top players in England on club owners who prioritise profit margins over entertaining football.
"In the Premier League in the last two years, have I really seen a game of high quality? A game that I've thought: "Wow!" It's difficult to think of any," he wrote.
"The money's the most important thing these days about football because owners, the majority of them, are just interested in making money for their football club.
"They don't care what they see on a Saturday afternoon on the pitch. They're purely businessmen, whereas at Barcelona you have a balance between business and football.
"It's a club that is a cooperative owned by the fans, not by one businessman or a group of individuals. That's why they have the best players. And why clubs like that are the best teams."
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Paul Scholes says the Premier League will continue to struggle to attract the world's top players as long as clubs focus on making money over winning football games.
England is home to the richest domestic television deal, but in an excerpt from his new book appearing in The Guardian, Scholes said Spanish clubs' recent success in Europe is proof they have pulled away from the Premier League in terms of quality on the pitch.
"The Spanish league's the best by far if you're judging on the European competitions. In the quarterfinals of the Champions League and the Europa League in 2015-16, they had six of the 16 teams. Nearly half of them. The Premier League had just two," he wrote.
Manchester United brought in Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic this summer, but Scholes, a former star at Old Trafford himself, did not list them among the best players currently in England.
"There needs to be a real step up in quality in England. Other than Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva, we don't have the best players. All the best players are in other countries," he wrote.
"The best players are in Spain or at Bayern Munich and Juventus. We're linked with big players -- Gareth Bale is a top player -- but we don't get them now. Not anymore. You never see a Lionel Messi coming over here, you never see a Neymar in the Premier League."
Players like Lionel Messi and Neymar will never come to England, says Paul Scholes."In the Premier League in the last two years, have I really seen a game of high quality? A game that I've thought: "Wow!" It's difficult to think of any," he wrote.
"The money's the most important thing these days about football because owners, the majority of them, are just interested in making money for their football club.
"They don't care what they see on a Saturday afternoon on the pitch. They're purely businessmen, whereas at Barcelona you have a balance between business and football.
"It's a club that is a cooperative owned by the fans, not by one businessman or a group of individuals. That's why they have the best players. And why clubs like that are the best teams."
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