David Moyes Slams the Quality of 2014-15 Premier League Season

Former Manchester United boss David Moyes joined a long line of people commenting on the Premier League and its horrible showing in Europe the past week, telling reporters the state of the current league is the poorest he has seen "in a long time."    

He also revealed he turned down several jobs in England in favour of his current position, as manager of Real Sociedad, and urged fellow Brits to do the same, as reported by BBC Sport:

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Maybe we have talked up the Premier League more than we should. Of course, the top clubs in Spain spend a lot, but the other teams can't

Atletico [Madrid] have had financial difficulties over the years but they have still reached finals. Valencia, Villarreal, they have have got quite far in the Europa League.

So maybe we do go over the top about our league. This year it is probably the poorest Premier League I've seen in a long time.

We import an awful lot of foreign managers but we don't export enough, yet I think British managers are as good as those in any country.

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Moyes was sacked by the Red Devils at the end of last season, enduring a miserable campaign that saw United fail to qualify for European football for the first time in years. He was replaced by current manager Louis van Gaal.

The Premier League was a source of mockery the past week, as all of the clubs still playing in the European competitions crashed out in disappointing fashion, via The New York Times' Cristian Nyari:

The league is often talked up as the "best in the world" by its fans, and the new record-breaking TV deal seemed to support that hypothesis when it was announced in February, via the BBC.

Manchester City's loss against Barcelona, one of the giants of European football, was perhaps expected, but Chelsea's and Arsenal's exits against the French duo of Paris Saint-Germain and AS Monaco were particularly embarrassing.

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Pundits have been searching for reasons why the clubs failed as a collective all week, with Bleacher Report's Guillem Balague pointing the finger at their tendency to spend big to solve problems, in favour of other solutions:

Meanwhile, defenders of the league think it was just an aberration, and the Premier League will reclaim its spot near the top of the European hierarchy next season.    

The answer likely lies somewhere in the middle. No league brings in as much cash as the Premier League does, and with the way the game works today, those funds will ensure Britain's finest won't stay down for long.

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