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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3927646, member: 405"] As I'm watching a replay of West Ham vs. Newcastle, I am struck (again) by how the Premier League teams, for the most part, have used the big TV money of the last 5 years or so to really build much better rosters than they used to have. West Ham, Leicester, Everton, Aston Villa. Even Newcastle and Leeds have some legitimate talent. Wolves need to freshen up, but were right up there among the European places before Raul Jiminez suffered that terrible head injury. We'll see how he bounces back this year. That's 2/3 of the entire league who field truly competitive teams, and have international quality players throughout their rosters. I don't think the depth of the other Big Five leagues is similar. And there are far fewer "park the bus" kinds of teams in the league. Most teams try to play football in a pretty attractive way, compared to 10 years ago. [/QUOTE]