beef with the original poster? I dont think we've ever interacted (at least not negatively) you pleb.
Your second paragraph makes zero sense and is just a pathetic attempt to change the direction of the discussion and talk about whether or not Spence/Maddison are lesser players.
you keep talking about the use of "critical thinking" and "mental gymnastics" because you're so fucking arrogant you genuinely believe you are able to understand and decipher every post on here. If someone fucking says the league is "irrelevant" so use it to rotate player...I (as well as many others btw) take it as "play the lesser players in the league and focus on the cup as the league doesn't matter".
I focus on literal because that's really all you can do for the most part on an Internet forum. You don't know the people you are interacting with, their personality, way of thinking, way of communicating. I'm not a phycologist like you seem to think you are. I deal with facts and the literal meaning..not perception/belief like you(which is part of the reason why this world is so fucked.)