Does having the best players in your team always bring success?

By Tony Attwood In the first of Andrew’s two articles today the point was made that the title winning teams in England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, between them had 39 of the 100 top ranked players in the world. As you might recall nowhere was this more extreme than in Germany where Bayern Munich …

Attacking players: have the top clubs already mopped up the talent?

By Andrew Crawshaw In the last article we looked at the link between winning the league and having the top defenders in the side. The overall figures gave us the number of top players for the top teams in the league. England France Germany Italy Spain Man City – 8 PSG – 7 Bayern – …

The (not always) obvious link between winning the league and having top players

by Andrew Crawshaw The league winners in the top 5 European Leagues this last season were Premier League – Manchester City France – Paris St Germain Germany – Bayern Munich Italy – Juventus Spain – Barcelona The question we look at here is this: is there a correlation with the number of players they each …