Manchester United great Paul Scholes is of the belief that English clubs are not up to scratch on the European stage.
The Champions League botches of Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal recently suggest to Scholes that perhaps teams from the Premier League are not quite what they once were.
'Once upon a time we might have been able to blame that kind of failure rate on a lack of imported coaching talent, but we have got the supposed tactical masters from across Europe and South America at our top clubs now,' he wrote in his column for the London Evening Standard.
'Once we might not have been able to compete with the biggest European clubs for transfer fees, but our league has the biggest television deals in history.
'Over the last two weeks our coaches and players in the Champions League have looked second rate.
'If you put one of Barcelona, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich in the Premier League, they would win it by 10 to 15 points. Even PSG and Juventus look better sides than any of those currently at the top of the Premier League.'
