It is also scapegoating by a vampire private equity ownership group that has yanked their wages to turnover ratio down to near Levy levels.
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Worth pointing out though, before John Thomas perks up, that a big reason for our low ratio was huge turnover (but not profit).
Not sure any Italian team has that great revenue. AC's is less than Villas I think, and nearly half ours
United did last season. I don't recall any heads rolling.
It really is a tragedy for the sport when you're putting 73k into a cathedral like the San Siro every week and can't compete financially with the likes of Chelsea and Villa (and frankly us).
They had their era in the 90s tbf and I think the match fixing didn't do much for them.
It's just not a league anyone is particularly interested in viewing, possibly due - in part - to the pace of it and lack of stars relative to the other leagues
Really it's just kind of the winner-take-all dynamics of the modern financial world.
The Premier League is an excellent export product just on the level of entertainment, partially due to the luck of good timing and the wide use of the English language, but they've also made a lot of really good decisions.
Serie A can improve in that regard, but can they be better than the PL? Even if they were would anyone notice?
It's hard to believe how far Italian football has fallen.
Yeah the other leagues have done very little to make them a product and seem to just expect people to watch organically.
Which is the danger, really, for the PL and supports the notion that they are - even at a small level - interfering or controlling the narrative
There has been some effort in the US, but not very successfully, whereas the presentation of the PL is the gold standard not just for soccer over here but for all sports broadcasting, it's truly fantastic.
While sporting integrity is of course paramount, I don't think a sports league should ever apologize for or shrink from a fundamental understanding that they're in the entertainment business. We need that conviction to defeat VAR.
AC Milan did not fire everyone because of finishing 5th. That's just the excuse.
They fired everyone because everyone that was fired was actively feuding with one another and there was tons of in fighting behind the scenes at Milan all season.
Is this absolute duffer gone yet?
I think there’s going to be a lot of very disappointed people in this thread every day as it gets bumped and this gooner rat is still here.
He’s a fucking cockroach. I’ve seen this type quite a lot in my career. Well-educated, slick talking corporate hanger-on who knows how to push the pile of bullshit just far enough out of his path to stay on. He has no morals, no plan, no purpose in life other than sheer corporate survival.
He’s an empty suit and a complete cretin. He will hang on for dear life until the entire project caves in on top of him.
He’s an empty suit and a complete cretin. He will hang on for dear life until the entire project caves in on top of him.
This gooner rat needs eradacting from our club asap
Oh definitely, I think we’ve all probably worked with this type of horrible, slimy corporate suit. If you haven’t you’re lucky.
Go full Damnatio memoriae
Apart from Juventus and Udinese, the vast majority’s of Italian teams haven’t evolved their stadia in decades.
This plus the open racism on the terraces has hurt Serie A’s image in an increasingly globalised world.
He’s mates with him sure, but IMHO he’s been pretty balanced calling out his faults on the footballing achievement side.
Jordan has interesting perspective as a former chairman as opposed to the former players and managers views that most pundits bring, but he's a very obnoxious broadcaster who often doesn't make his points very well, and ultimately both he and Levy belong to an era of English football from a club operations perspective that no longer exists.
In 2006 these were the kinds of people making the decisions at English football clubs, and frankly it's no coincidence that the league is so much tactically and competitively stronger now that they don't anymore.
One thing that has always stood in their way financially is that they didn’t own the San Siro.
I believe they finally completed the co-purchase with Inter last year.
Is this fucking cunt gone yet??