Former Manchester United and Everton manager David Moyes has claimed that this season's Premier League has suffered a dip in standards and is as poor as he can remember in the competition's 23-year history.
Chelsea are on course to wrap up a title victory in the coming days, but Moyes suggests the standard required to claim that success was aided by a slide in quality for their chief rivals at the top of the Premier League.
No English teams made it through to the quarterfinals of this season's Champions League or Europa League and Real Sociedad boss Moyes suggests the decline is evident throughout the English top flight.
"It's as poor a Premier League as I've seen, maybe since the start of the Premier League," Moyes said.
"When you think of the great players who have graced the Premier League and the teams. I look at this year and I say, 'Well I don't see that'.
"I see good teams, very good teams, and some great players, but I just don't see the competition the way it was in years gone by."
Moyes went on to suggest he isn't pining for a return to the Premier League, as he is relishing his experience of working in La Liga with Sociedad.
"I'm not missing the Premier League just now," said Moyes. "I've actually come and I've seen something else, I've seen another league.
"I'm enjoying going to different stadiums, working with different players, trying to learn the language and the culture.
"I couldn't turn around and say I'm missing the Premier League at the moment, no. But obviously, it's where I've done most of my work and in time I've got no doubt I'll go back there."
Moyes has been linked with possible vacancies at West Ham, Newcastle and Sunderland this summer, but he seems content to remain in Spain for the foreseeable future.