Same. There was something romantic about seeing clubs like FIorentina (when they had Batistuta) and Valencia, and discovering great players who would never ever come to England.

Now it feels like everyone in the CL has at least one player who used to play for Tottenham.

🇩🇰 brought on a sub last night - Oscar Schwartau - making one of his first U21 appearances, having played 29 times for Norwich in the Championship last season after a few years at Brøndby.

Being honest, if he was Welsh he'd have about 10 senior caps by now.

Food for thought?

But looking at Denmark, not a big country by population, basically all of their players are playing regularly in the Danish Superliga (essentially a top 10 European league).

Yes for big clubs like FC Copenhagen or Brøndby, w/ others abroad in even bigger leagues and playing too.

But what that means is that several players aged under 21 are fast tracked, often bypassing the U21’s altogether.

It leaves an U21 pool of mainly League 1 / League 2 level players or others at bigger clubs but some way off their first team squads at this time of their careers.

That was bad.

Its striking that in Welsh domestic football you hear very little from the clubs unless its a matchday, where a manager may reveal something in the post match interview.

Not a knock, it is what it is, just a very general observation in regards to the noise around the league.

I hate them so much.