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Clubs in Serie A are struggling to spend money. In January 2023 transfer window when the Premier League spent a combined total of 800m Euros, Serie A spent just 33m.
But why? What is holding Italian clubs back from competing with their European counterparts? What are the main revenue streams, and why aren’t they fruitful?
James Horncastle writes, Henry Cooke illustrates.
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90's glory serie A
When clubs will stop being bought by Arabs who make the prices skyrocket, football will return to be much better.
As for Italy… as a person who travelled for work all over the country, I would say that the problem, as you mentioned, is also in the mentality, which in Italy can be resumed with 2 sentences: "we always did this way" and "we'll see"
Secularism doesn’t normally equate to high or shared investment.
Serie A owners are greedy and sell all fheir good players to the arabs in england
I'm Italian and I'm the first to say our league is garbage. I prefer watching La Liga or EPL.
Italy had an italian team in each European final champions league, europa and conference.
The Premier League poaching all the best players is going to be a far bigger problem than it already is.
Yet Milan, Inter and Napoli went far in the champions league with Inter reaching the final. Sometimes less money lead to more creativity from mgmt. and smarter choices.
Um… corruption. They keep us all under simple salary while they live large. Bs.
People care too much about soccer…
My suggestion is please get some players from South East Asia as Malaysia, Thailand, or Indonesia. The league will garner additional 50 million new fans.
Please use English, that is the reason why EPL is easier to be followed by outside fans.
In retrospect, this video is especially interesting given that all three European competition finals this season featured Italian teams. And despite all three losing their respective finals, it should surely go some way to helping Italian football
Because they are gypsies whi likes to steal when you turn them back😅
Fiorentina still play in a badly outdated stadium yet even Rocco Comisso hasn't been able to get a new one.
2 teams in semi final of UCL despite no money is great for league young talent growth.
Really!!! You need to ask this question? ITALY HAS BEEN BROKE FOR DECADES, AND IS BEING HELD ABOVE the water mark by EU TAX PAYERS MONEY,WHY??? BECAUSE ITALY IS A ROMAN CATHOLIC COUNTRY,AND EVERYBODY LOVES THE ITALIANS!!! DESPITE THEM BEING A BUNCH OF LAZY PEOPLE.
And yet theres a seria A team in the finals of all 3 European competitions this year
And people wonder why Juve and the other Italian clubs wanted to create the Super League.
Everyone saying that Italian football is struggling because they don't have big names, but look at the results on the field. Italian teams are making good progress in Europe's competitions.
3 italian teams in all 3 european cups, look at how bad chelsea are with spending. only negative is the stadiums
Enjoy Socialism
They need a rich oil barren to purchase the clubs. Look at city and Chelsea. Watch Newcastle grow stronger with Saudi money.
Or they need Parez from Real Madrid. He's going to purchase mbappe in the summer.
The winter transfer market is not comparable, as most transfers are done during the inter-season, figures will 'normally' be low. In your analysis you failed to mention the transfer of Ronaldo for 100m euros to Juve in 2018, how come they were able to shell out that much. Btw, La Spezia will not be the only Ligurian club in Serie A as Genoa have just achieved promotion.
I don't know if I'd like a Serie A with the same skyrocketing prices you have in England. I mean…it's great to attract big players…we had our share of that back in the 90s. But the amount of money around football has grown too much imho. Where do we stop?
With its location, Italy has a natural advantage vs EPL to attract players from countries around the Mediterranean. And as other people mentioned, boost marketing in those countries along with an African marketing strategy. Then perhaps they can boost revenue and first get on more solid financial footing. Europe may have bigger financial problems in 5-10 years with MLS. If Messi goes to Miami and a few tech billionaires buy teams, there will be serious money imbalances.
No need to watch. The answer is
Because Tyson fury manages the league
You guys are wrong if you think the problem is the thriftiness and austerity of Italian football. The problem is the massively overvalued speculative market that is the PL and British football in general.
Epl is a joke…
When you have for profit clubs in municipal stadium commercial potential is cut by significant amount. Then when you go years debating the loses revenue adds up to clubs being out of money. Vicious cycle that can’t be resolved till Italian football gets over their nostalgia.
No money but still European champions + 3 clubs in 3 european finals this year.
Masterclass
Italy 🏆🏆🏆🏆 England 🏆(stolen).
But… calcio is back
With three teams in the European finals. Then it's better not to have any money.
The governance it's the mai problem, Milan tries to build a new stadium since 2016, but they just don't want to give us permission, i Hope the stadium will be build in Monza or Sesto San Giovanni instead of milano
This is why many clubs in Serie A have to share stadiums with each other, while in the Premier League, even Leeds United still owns their own stadium. 😁
Abbiamo speso poco ma abbiamo 3 squadre in finale nelle coppe europee! 😂😂😂
One of the biggest problems is italy's beaureaucracy, which makes it really hard to invest into creating new stadiums and infrastructures to make football more popular. It's not the best market to invest at all, whereas England really did the best out of all the leagues when it comes to money and marketing of the game.
because they didnt steal anyones gold
This is what racism and corruption gets you.