adminLONDON. — The leading English clubs can become “the Barcelonas and Real Madrids of tomorrow” according to BT Sport presenter Gary Lineker.
The former England and Barcelona striker believes that the financial power of the English Premier League will persuade the next generation of the world’s leading players to follow top coaches such as Pep Guardiola to England. Spanish clubs have dominated the later stages of both the Champions League and the Europa League in recent seasons, with Chelsea the English Premier League’s lone winners of the senior competition in the past eight years. But Lineker expects that to change before long.
“At the moment Spanish football is super-dominant, but I think we’re just at the start of becoming more impactful in Europe,” he said on Monday.
“If you look at our sides, we haven’t got the world-class superstars who still generally go to Real Madrid or Barcelona, Bayern Munich as well.
“So we’ve been going through a period where we’ve just not been good enough really.But now we’re seeing that the best coaches in the world go to our league and I think the best players will come because our league is where all the real money is. — AFP.
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