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Bobo32
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When will Italian football remain competitive?When Italian clubs realise that players only have monetary value up to a point.
Let's suppose Milan get a bid of £75m for Kaka. Unless they are able to recruit players of similar value to the squad its futile. Now two £30m players and a £15m player would quite comfortably raise Serie A's profile such that there is a net profit in the Serie A desirability factor (I dont want to use the word 'brand'). But this only happens if:
a ) Top players don't see Serie A as a feeder league (like a more upmarket Ligue 1).
b) The players brought in come from abroad. Serie A's profile isn't raised internationally by Iaquinta moving from Juve to Milan, for instance.
Inter with Ibra are the same,
If clubs understood that it wasn't worth selling top players then the money in the EPL would be impotent and Serie A would become more competitive.
I understand it is not the role of individual clubs to work in the best interest of the league. But the health of the league is in the interest of individual clubs (see point 1).
Kaka, Ibra, Pato might leave and recently players past the prime have been brought in (e.g.Ronaldinho and Beckham).
This is a bit of a splurge but it is irritating to see Serie A give its power away. A strong Serie A is good for Europe.
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Mezz
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Liam posted the following this evening in the Milan thread, and it backs my feelings on the matter superbly:
| Liam wrote: | | Juve did it in 2001 when Zidane and Inzaghi went, and Buffon, Thuram and Nedved signed. The team needed it, and it worked as those players won 4 Scudetti in 5 years. |
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Liam
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Players go where the most money is. That's in England right now, but when the league here goes bankrupt like Serie A did at the turn of the century it'll be elsewhere.
Calciopoli has affected Serie A more than anything. No matter what side you believe it doesn't reflect well on the league.
Serie A still enjoys a high reputation though and in terms of overall quality I don't see it being much different to the standard in England. It's just that the top 4 clubs in England have been better than the rest in the last 3 years, apart from Milan and Barcelona's good seasons.
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