You are getting a bit carried away there. Premiership is good but how many TRULY world class stars have come over here from abroad to play in the premiership when they are already established world stars ? not even Chelsea with their £200k a week wages have been able to attract the likes of Kaka, Gattuso, Messi, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and similar, most of the foreigners that have come here have been unproven youngsters who were not world class at time of joining (Fabregas, Essien for example), has been's on one last pay day (half the Bolton team for instance) or flops from other leagues (Adebayor, that guy who scores loads for Blackburn who got about 1 in 10 in Germany) so I would put the Premiership behind Serie A and La Liga in terms of both quality of players and teams.

I must've missed this earlier but what utter TOSH!

 

You say that English clubs never sign people at the top of their game, well Kaka, Gattuso, Messi and Ronaldinho weren't when they signed for their current clubs, were they? Certainly not like now anyway.

 

And surely it's BETTER to sign people when they're young and watch them develop. It costs you much less and it's your own work, not someone else's!

Wenger says his next bunch of youngsters are all English though. Should we trust him?

 

Hmm well our official "youngster" squad has 15 English players and 11 foreign players, so if he did say that, he's not exactly telling the whole truth. Although that said, i can't see many of the 26 making it at Arsenal, regardless of whether they're English or not, i should think only 4/5 will ever taste proper first team action with us, although i should imagine the ones that do are likely to be mainly the non-English players, like Carlos Vela, Fran Merida and Vincent Van Den Berg.