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It hasn't been that way since 2010 tbh

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In terms of say, footballers courting the press and such. That was the mainstay of Beckham, Gerrard and such. Once Rooney retires, it's the last of that sort of football player and accompanying WAG. I mean, save for the footballer who was a pedophile and the other one who was a rapist, I have no compunction about the media calling such things out? Apart from that, they've left the younger players alone. You don't see them on Hello! or OK! like the Gerrards, Rooneys, Beckhams of old. For instance, the only pictures of Harry Kane that I might see out and about are from fan tumblrs, not newspapers, where they would have been with Gerrard and his missus.

The up and coming footballers seem to have their heads down and their wives and girlfriends seem to be in professional jobs (not model/star columnist/singer), so you don't see that sort of thing anymore. The most you might see a footballer doing an interview is because of his sponsor and that's pretty rare.

With Bundesliga (partially thanks to language barriers) you aren't spending all your time wondering when will be the next time Guardiola will go off on someone or whether Hummels will use his leverage to sniff around La Liga to get a new contract with Dortmud.

Not necessarily? My German is rudimentary at best, but rumours still do snake around in the German press and make it online and about in various forums and in newspapers. You also get the same news in terms of La Liga (with Marca and such).

What EPL really needs is to just re-focus on their youngins

That I agree with. The EPL overpays for usually middling foreign talent who will take time to get their head around the league instead of say, going the Spurs and Leicester route and tap up League 1 players and see how they do. I'm glad that Chelsea is stopping the spigot on that one, re: Mourinho, since he's the one who inadvertently started the great foreign rush back in 2004.