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Well the league itself is much better, but the money isn’t there
TV Deals
The lega needs to start developing the league rather than finding faults in the teams.
The emotional sentiments of the people to bring down old decadent stadiums to built new modern ones so that the people can have a amazing experience and also help the clubs grow world wide , since there’s more money to come from the global market rather then the local one . The greed of the local municipality and also the club owners.
Get better cameras. Stop the late games. And promote it better for non-italians.
Stadiums, media deals, and foreign investment. Italy is a bureaucratic disaster, new modern stadiums that are club owned are still twenty years away. If the country weren’t such a tourist destination, it would be on the same economic level as Spain or Portugal.
I’ve always wondered if UK based commentators sway public opinion of Italian teams and Serie A. Almost all Serie A, European competition, and international games aired in the US are commentated on by at least one pundit from the UK. In my opinion, these commentators have at most a bias or at very least know less about Italian teams than English teams. Inevitably, they always bring up calciopoli, Milan’s collapse against Liverpool in the CL Final in Istanbul, corruption, etc. Why would people new to the sport want to follow Italian teams when the people presenting the games to them don’t have anything nice to say?
Well considering how the majority of transfers in Serie A are loans with mandatory future fees, I assume the short term finances of clubs are all fucked. They effectively spend next season’s transfer budget in the current season perpetually. At least, that’s how I see it.
Corruption
Calciopoli?
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.
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.
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.
Money
No, it’s lack of talent. Without money, talent leaves and you are left with: no money, no talent.
Terrible take
You’ve said it yourself, lack of talent is not the cause is the consequence.
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.