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Originally Posted by devilish
You actually showed you know little about the Serie A anyway.
The Serie A finances are weak because
a) The football ground are not owned by the clubs but by the local councils
b) The Italian culture is different. Many supporters prefer to watch the game at home rather then at the stadium
c) The Italian clubs has yet to learn how to exploit merchandizing fully. Many clubs still work in the traditional way (ie a rich owner pumps all the money for the clubs to exist out of his own pocket) and there are very few billionaires running around
d) Business Scandals which swept Italy lately had a direct impact on football. For example the Cirio and the Parmalat’ scandals hit Lazio and Parma directly because those clubs where owned by those companies
e) Money wasn’t invested wisely. It all went on transfers rather then on strengthening the financial side of the clubs
You’ve said that Roma and AC Milan are passing from good times which further proved how you know little about what is happening. AC Milan had registered 24m debts (Galliani hinted that they may end up selling Kaka) while Roma are in such financial shite that its very difficult for the Sensi family to keep hold on them for another year. The days when (let me not mention just one club) Lazio could afford players like Gazza, Veron and Vieri, Sampdoria could afford players like Gullit and Platt, Napoli could afford players like Maradona, Zola and Careca, Fiorentina could afford players like Laudrup, Effenberg and Dunga, Brescia could afford Hagi and Raduciou ARE OVER. The only clubs left who are with the financial pull to maybe (and Im stressing on maybe) are the traditionally rich clubs still owned by rich tycoons such as Moratti. There again I am confident that there is only one club capable of truly competing with us at financial level and that is Chelsea.
And go and ask any supporter whom they prefer between a potential world class player with 12 good years left in him or else a ‘finishing product’. I had mentioned the best in both cases Zidane and Messi. Young talent will always cost more because its an investment.
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I cannot believe you have posted this. You claim I know little about Serie A, when your A and C, are exactly what I referred to in my post. I also accept points B,D,E. You post as if I have denied them.
To get back to your original comment that
"there is no money left in football". All you have done is show that the Italian league is struggling financially. I
never said that Italian clubs were not struggling to keep up with the PL & La Liga. I even said why they are struggling in the post above. Check for yourself. Also you have a habbit of missing out my other points in your posts, points which act to make yours redundant, f you could be bothered to acknowledge them. Yet you continue to bring those same points back up.
You then decided to raise the very points that I had made in my previous post, about why the Italian league is struggling..I don't know if you have reading difficulties, or if you just skim read my posts, but I try to make them as clear as possible for you.
To say "there is no money left in football" is ludicrous. With leagues all over europe getting stronger due to financial backing. Just because the financial status of clubs in Italy is relatively poor, does not mean "there is no money left in football".
God, you really are in the habbit of making arguments up yourself, just to knock them down.