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That's a laugh
Explain how players like Vidosic and Bozanic can go to Switzerland and tear up the league like they never could in Australia. I think Vidosic has made the Swiss team of the week something like 5 times in 11 games. Or how someone like Contreras can go from starting in a champions league team like Olympiaikos and then coming to Australia and becoming just an average A League player, no better than Nick Ansell. Or even someone like Matt Ryan who was a very good A League keeper (yet still not clearly better than someone like Galekovic) going to Belgium and becoming pretty much the best keeper in the league. I could reel off more examples.
The A League is never going to be as good as the top leagues in places like England, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Holland etc. But I really don't think it's lagging behind places like Switzerland, Croatia or Scotland like many seem to think it is.
Anyway this is the Transfer thread so I'm going to leave it there...
Explain how players like Vidosic and Bozanic can go to Switzerland and tear up the league like they never could in Australia. I think Vidosic has made the Swiss team of the week something like 5 times in 11 games. Or how someone like Contreras can go from starting in a champions league team like Olympiaikos and then coming to Australia and becoming just an average A League player, no better than Nick Ansell. Or even someone like Matt Ryan who was a very good A League keeper (yet still not clearly better than someone like Galekovic) going to Belgium and becoming pretty much the best keeper in the league. I could reel off more examples.
The A League is never going to be as good as the top leagues in places like England, Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, Holland etc. But I really don't think it's lagging behind places like Switzerland, Croatia or Scotland like many seem to think it is.
Anyway this is the Transfer thread so I'm going to leave it there...
I like the A-League and it has certainly improved drastically in the last few years, but in terms of quality of football it's well below most european leagues.

