If we accept that winning the Bundisliga if youāre not Bayern Munich is at least as hard as winning the Premiership how does that logic work?
I'm not sure I accept that myself... (this bears no relevance to the main topic of the thread but I just like intruding into other people's conversations)
I'd say that winning the Bundesliga if you're not Bayern Munich around the Guardiola era would've been perhaps as hard as winning the Premier League, but at the time Klopp did it, he was not exactly making unheard of type of history there.
Bayern may have won 5 in a row in 2016-17, and are now on their way towards winning a 6th this season, but this is actually the first time they have won more than 3 league titles in a row, ever. So this type of dominance is actually a more recent development.
Before that, what you had was generally Bayern dominating, but whenever they had a bad year for some reason or another, a random club would, on occasion, win the league. That's the advantage of pretty much having only one major adversary - if they f**k up, you have a real chance.
That's how Dortmund won it in 2001-02 under Matthias Sammer (who later went on to do a good job as Bayern sporting director), then Werder Bremen in 2003-04 under Thomas Schaaf, Armin Veh's Stuttgart in 2006-07, Wolfsburg won their first ever Bundesliga in 2008-09 under Felix Magath, and finally Dortmund did it in 2010-11 with our JĆ¼rgen. And yet, none of those managers are held in as high regard as JĆ¼rgen just for having won the Bundesliga with a club not named Bayern (for good reason, I'd add, but I'm just making a different point here).
The main difference in JĆ¼rgen's case was that he did it twice in a row, something that only Dortmund themselves (in 94-95 and 95-96), Hamburg (in the 80's) and Monchengladbach (in the 70's) have ever done, aside of course from Bayern Munich. Moreover, he made a mark in Europe in a way the likes of Stuttgart and Wolfsburg never did (though similarly to the Dortmund of the 90's, who were European champions), and rebuilt them from a near bankrupt position to a team that is sustainably challenging, even if still far behind Bayern in many dimensions.
So I'm not in any way trying to diminish JĆ¼rgen's work at Dortmund as it was absolutely brilliant, just throwing it out there in regards to the comparison you made. And mostly because I actually went through the winning managers of every single European top leagues for the past 30 years recently (to prove a point in another thread), so I have all this useless knowledge in my brain I felt I should put to use.
Anyway, the Premier League these days is definitely the most competitive league in the world, and much harder to win by comparison. Not only there are many clubs with relatively similar spending power, you could also argue that the league has attracted the very best managers in the world.