Carlos Tevez has seemingly got involved the eternal debate about which is the best league in the world.
A common topic for many football fans, we even conducted our own study recently, such debates are subjective, and can sometimes end with people decrying the quality of the Premier League. Tevez is one of those people.
The former Manchester United, Manchester City and West Ham forward has claimed it’s easier for strikers in England, where midfield is mostly non-existent and defences are soft.
‘It’s much easier to score in the Premier League,’ Tevez told Italian publication La Repubblica, ‘…the ball doesn’t stop moving, the action is everywhere and the midfield is non-existent’.
The Argentine is currently playing for Serie A champions Juventus, and is in no doubt as to which is the better league. ‘Here you see a striker up against five defenders, it’s much more difficult than in England. The Italian league is of a high standard.’
So, in England, there’s a general poor standard of defences, midfields, and, by extension, attackers, (because it’s so easy to score). Tevez spent seven years in England, arriving at West Ham, spending two years at Old Trafford before causing a stir with his move to rivals Manchester City.
In addition to the poor quality of football, Tevez wasn’t a fan of English cuisine or weather. ‘There’s nothing to do in Manchester,’ Tevez told an Argentine chat show in 2011. ‘There’s two restaurants and everything’s small. It rains all the time, you can’t go anywhere’.
So, if you see any transfer rumours linking the forward with a move to England this summer, probably best not to take them too serious.
Tevez has had some interesting things to say about the his former United team, the 2008 Champions League winning team. When asked if his current side could replicate that side, he said: ‘That was a different situation. There were some amazing examples: Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Paul Scholes’.
‘I think that now there is a team instead. We are very hard to beat.’
