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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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Read my posts carefully.
Like I said players like Messi & Rooney are exceptions! Generally speaking, established world class players cost more than young players with potential!
As you love talking about the Italian league so much, how about this..
Would Kaka of cost a team like Real Madrid more money 5 years ago? or more now? (after winning world player of the year etc, and establishing himself as world class) This cost is not taking into consideration Milan's current financial situation obviously, assume both have plenty of money, milan want to sell, and Real want to buy.)
The answer is obvious, and proves your theory to be incorrect. Just like Ronaldo would cost Real much more today, than it would of done just 3 seasons ago..