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TV right maybe. In particular the mid-low table teams got less money and this reduce the competitiveness among the teams. I would also say some legislations stuff like the split of the acquisition cost of a player without a boundary limit (looking Chelsea market). Basically the depreciation is based on the contract years of the player. While the cost is accounted following the depreciation schema the incomes are reported 100% in the year of creation. An example: Chelsea will sell in the 2024 Nicolas Jackson for 40 millions. In the meanwhile they will acquire Sesko for 80 millions. Sesko will sign a contract among 8 years. This mean that the cost will be 10 millions each year. So the 2024 Chelsea will count -10 and + 40 = +30. Hopefully this normative hole will be solved soon.
They just changed it so amortization is limited to 5 years, regardless of contract length. Jackson was bought for 37 million, so that’s 7.4m for 5 years. Selling Jackson for 40m in 2024 would be only 10m in profit on the sale, because there is 4 years of depreciation left.
It’s not retrospective. The Chelsea contracts signed before the change came in to effect are still over the 8 years or however long.
Everything
Literally not having a League with 18 team like Bundesliga. Most of the medium-low level teams just play for not be relegated in Serie B, most of the games are boring (except for Cagliari-Frosinone).
Money
No, it’s lack of talent. Without money, talent leaves and you are left with: no money, no talent.
You’ve said it yourself, lack of talent is not the cause is the consequence.
Terrible take
At this point competing with the Prem is almost impossible, however, new stadiums, investment in youth sectors, and a more even division of TV rights would be steps in the right direction.
more even division of TV rights would be steps in the right direction.
Nope…
Top Serie A club currently get LESS money than a random bottom EPL club. With identical distribution you’d cripple even more the top earners while not helping much the smaller clubs.
It’s like comparing a king size pizza to a bakery “pizzetta” If you cut the small one in 20 identical slices nobody will be fed properly and those gorging on the XXL pizza will still eat more, even if they got the smallest slice.
There’s simply not enough money to redistribute fairly. And honestly it shouldn’t be the case anyway.
Nobody pays to watch Cremonese - Empoli or Salernitana - Lecce. But weaken Juve, Inter or Milan Away and see how the league will sink.
Nobody pays to watch Cremonese - Empoli or Salernitana - Lecce. But weaken Juve, Inter or Milan Away and see how the league will sink.
Nobody pays to watch Burnley vs Fulham or Brentford vs Bournemouth either.
Tebas is undoubtedly a thoroughly repulsive individual yet La Liga has grown immensely under his watch and his biggest change was getting the TV rights away from Barca and Real Madrid and making them collective which has strengthened clubs like Granada, Almeria and Getafe and their finances have grown to an extent they wouldn’t have been able to dream about 10 years ago.
The Bundesliga also collective TV rights despite Bayern and Dortmund being far ahead of everyone else in terms of fans and who’s watching them yet clubs still get a fair deal.
If the other top leagues in Europe can have collective TV deals than there’s no reason Serie A shouldn’t.
TV money is not going to increase and the on field product is not going to increase in value as long as only 2-3 teams are the only ones realistically competing for the tittle. Competition and unpredictability of the result are major reasons why people watch/love sports, unfortunately football has become dominated by 5-6 teams and it really ruins the fun for the other millions of fans who supporrt the other 90 or so, top tear clubs in europe.
Its an italian league.
TV revenues.
The Prem gets over three times the revenue, despite barely double the advertising figures of Serie A.
US investors can’t get their heads around it.
What they don’t realise is the levels of corruption at Sky.
The English language
Yep this is crucial
In Italy they speak Italian and in England they speak English.
Italian is the main language of 3 countries, all in the italian peninsula
English is the main language of over halg a billion people speak english as a first language. Including ex colonial territories in Africa and Asia.
Corruption
Calciopoli?
Fewer/no arab owners who are willing to splurge $$$$.
It’s all about $$$
You can’t. There is a volume of money in the Premier League that Serie A will never see. And it is not a football problem, but a country problem.
The same money does not circulate in Italy as in the UK, it does not attract foreign capital as the UK, there is not the same ease of investment as in the UK. From them come the real multi-billionaires, here the second-rate ones who cannot afford the Premier League. After all, why should they?
The owners of football clubs face the problems of doing big projects in Italy (which is running a team worth hundreds of millions of euros).
Just look at the difficulties Inter and AC Milan find in making their new stadium, forced to abandon Milan because the city administration would rather let their stadium go to ruin than give it to the clubs.
Just look at how James Pallotta, president of AS Roma, has been sabotaged in every possible way in his plans to make a new stadium for the club, with landscape constraints in the middle of rundown suburbs.
Look how criminal syndicates own the stands of Italian stadiums and can blackmail clubs at will.
Why would anyone with real money come and invest in the clubs of this country in ruins?
Money, plain and simple.
I certainly think that Italian football is behind when it comes to creating a brand for the club outside of actually footballing success.
I feeling like Italian clubs and their fans (due to how traditional Italy is as a country) refuse to make the steps in that direction.
I feel like maybe Milan is working towards it more than other but they have a sort of history of being the more progressive club. They’ve worked on partnering/collating with fashion brands, famous bands (rolling stones), etc.
Clubs just need to be recognized more world wide like other PL teams or Barca and RM.
The slow pace to change which is a big problem for Italy in general