Friday 4 September 2015 08:42, UK
Germany manager Joachim Low says the vast sums spent by Premier League clubs this summer will make the England national team weaker.
And Low also feels it will have the dual effect of strengthening his own country's team because so many of the purchases have been of players from the Bundesliga.
Premier League clubs spent more than £860m on new players in the summer transfer window with several large slices of that going to the German national league.
Manchester City paid Wolfsburg £54.5m for Kevin De Bruyne, Liverpool bought Roberto Firmino from Hoffenheim for £29m and Tottenham gave Bayer Leverkusen £18m for Son Heung-min.
Chelsea spent £17.7m on Augsburg left-back Baba Rahman, Leicester took Shinji Okazaki from Mainz for £7.5m and Bastian Schweinsteiger left Bayern Munich for Manchester United for £6m.
Low feels those additions will make it even harder for English players to get game time at top-level clubs, which will be the obvious detriment of the national side, and that the influx of cash into the German game will be diverted into youth development.
"Premier League clubs are now paying three times what they used to," he said. "But the good thing is that money is being ploughed back into the Bundesliga.
"That helps make the German national team stronger because in the past few years £100m has been put back into youth development.
"That money has been used to make the standard of young players better. England will have to face up to fact that their young players don't get the minutes for their clubs.
"That is why the English national team hasn't set the world alight."
