[ITA] Serie A 2014/2015 (38 Viewers)

Vlad

In Allegri We Trust
May 23, 2011
24,064
Roma is a rather good example what may happen if you keep spending beyond your means in trying to develope too fast without supporting infrastructure. Oh boy if they miss out on the CL it will either require some serious investments from their owners or backyard sale to keep them afloat.
 

Lion

King of Tuz
Jan 24, 2007
36,185
Oh man as much as i like winning scudetti i miss the competition in the good ol' Calcio days.
true, however this season is very entertaining to watch because of the many teams competing for CL and EL spots. it's tight and with so many games left it's fair game to guess who will get the spots.
 

PedroFlu

Senior Member
Sep 20, 2011
7,166
Roma, Napoli, Fiorentina, Lazio, Sampdoria, Torino, Genoa.. these are all traditional teams which are doing well the last years. They have competitive teams. They are doing their part.

The Milanese teams are the ones who are making Serie A weaker.

I believe Inter is recovering slowly, and should be at the level of Napoli, Lazio, soon.

Milan is being sold to Chinese, and due to their brand, I believe that suddenly a lot of money will be pumped in and they will be players again. And then we will have a tough and great Serie A. The mid table teams are doing pretty well and this is very important for the quality of the league.
 

Zacheryah

Senior Member
Aug 29, 2010
42,251
Roma, Napoli, Fiorentina, Lazio, Sampdoria, Torino, Genoa.. these are all traditional teams which are doing well the last years. They have competitive teams. They are doing their part.

The Milanese teams are the ones who are making Serie A weaker.

I believe Inter is recovering slowly, and should be at the level of Napoli, Lazio, soon.

Milan is being sold to Chinese, and due to their brand, I believe that suddenly a lot of money will be pumped in and they will be players again. And then we will have a tough and great Serie A. The mid table teams are doing pretty well and this is very important for the quality of the league.
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All this league needs is Milan and Inter to get their new stadium and a serious capital investment
 

napoleonic

Senior Member
Sep 7, 2010
4,129
No, serie a need more international fans, marketing and money; how competitive the league should be is quite irrelevant and as someone said above, a too tough league will also harm us to compete in europe as the premier league shown us nowdays, real barca bayern have advantage to be able to not playing with 110% effort to dominate their league and can have more breath in europe

Money, marketing, international fans >>>>>>>>> tough league
 

lgorTudor

Senior Member
Jan 15, 2015
32,951
Money, marketing, international fans >>>>>>>>> tough league
I can't believe you think these are two disconnected.

Bandwagoners have a nasty flaw: they don't bandwagon banana leagues which make it to CL semis once in 5 years. These kind of followers you gain either by farming on former colonies like EPL or being successful and attractive like LaLiga.

What Serie A needs are 3 top teams pushing each other to become even better until they reach world class.
 

happybum

Junior Member
Oct 23, 2014
180
I can't believe you think these are two disconnected.

Bandwagoners have a nasty flaw: they don't bandwagon banana leagues which make it to CL semis once in 5 years. These kind of followers you gain either by farming on former colonies like EPL or being successful and attractive like LaLiga.
And La Liga isn't farming on colonies? Most South American fans are RM/Barca fans. I think like 90% of Mexicans I have met are RM fans. Italy has bandwagoned on the "Latin" culture as well.

That's a big part of the reason why Bundesliga sucks at attracting global fans. Who the f is going to sympathize with Germans :D
 

napoleonic

Senior Member
Sep 7, 2010
4,129
I can't believe you think these are two disconnected.

Bandwagoners have a nasty flaw: they don't bandwagon banana leagues which are in CL semifinals once in 5 years. These kind of followers you gain either by farming on former colonies like EPL or being successful and attractive like LaLiga.

What Serie A needs are 3 top teams pushing each other to become even better until they reach world class.
As a club we don't need fans bandwagoning the league, only us, we need attention to ourself not the rest of the league, barca and real has been doing this since decades as bayern has been too, heck even united also did it back then when epl was still irrelevant

These clubs have built their own image quite disconnected from the state of their own leagues, most recent example is psg of course.

These days if serie was as tough as it be in 2000-2002 we would easily find ourself exhausted to compete in europe

Last time we dominated the world (1994-1998) the league was not that strong and there weren't that many strong teams in europe either

Put 2013 bayern or 2009 barca in a league as strong as 2000-2002 serie a as well as facing epl clubs, psg, real, etc in europe, they would suffer and bleed much more, there will be high probability that they wouldn't be treble winners
 

happybum

Junior Member
Oct 23, 2014
180
No, serie a need more international fans, marketing and money; how competitive the league should be is quite irrelevant and as someone said above, a too tough league will also harm us to compete in europe as the premier league shown us nowdays, real barca bayern have advantage to be able to not playing with 110% effort to dominate their league and can have more breath in europe

Money, marketing, international fans >>>>>>>>> tough league
I think EPL has shown that football is more than just about money. You need a footballing philosophy, a functioning academy, a tradition of strong mentality. You need people to bleed for the shirt, and feel like they're part of a family, not just mercenaries following the trail of cash.
 

napoleonic

Senior Member
Sep 7, 2010
4,129
I think EPL has shown that football is more than just about money. You need a footballing philosophy, a functioning academy, a tradition of strong mentality. You need people to bleed for the shirt, and feel like they're part of a family, not just mercenaries following the trail of cash.
Yes but the only one thing we lack today is money, and that is as proven by certain teams I already mentioned, quite disassociated with how strong the league is/was
 

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