Italian football was slowly lagging behind the other league's with infrastructure etc. Calciopoli just sped up the process by a lot and thus we have this current $#@! league further and further in decline that we have now.
The problem about Italy is that anybody would make a new stadio but they wanna be able to speculate to pay the investment. Means paying the stadio by selling condos or flats or whatever.
This isn't allowed in Italy. There are laws on how much you can build in a area and so on... and for some reasons clubs can't directly own shops or so.
To that cities who has a team renting a pubblic stadio and paying the rent will makes lot of burocratic problems cause letting a team build something private means a huge loss for the city fundings.
Look at Inter and Milan both pay 8m each (tot of 16m yearly) it would be a huge loss of taxes for Milano.
The problems in Italy are called burocracy and taxes.
Ah i forgot to mention that italian clubs pay almost half of what they give in wages in taxes.
So if we sign a player for 200k euro/week (as english love to write) means that we pay to the italian fisco 400k/week.
While elsewhere it's nothing like that. France aside for those who earn more than 1m a year (still like that or they removed that thing?)
So given all of this it isn't so incredible to read how other leagues surpassed us.
To make italian football go back to where it stands we either need super richs who spend like arabs or they to make a combined stand with the gov to let some stuff goes smooth.
But the first thing is unlikeable to happen. Why anyone would invest serious money here?
for the latter.... we are already in a huge economical crisis people would riot if they start doing something but only for a sport while there are millions jobless or underpaid or in the poor.
So that's means that unless a miracle take place in Italy nothing will change.
If Juve keep progressing.... cool and that's it but unlikely to win anything outside of Italy. We'll have to root yearly for a decent standing in champions. Means between big 16 and quarters-finals.
Quarters if we're lucky.
We are a bit luckier than the rest. Cause we have a decent base of good players. Sadly we have no managers capable to make them play in a international way. And when you're used to italian teams always defending with ten men and at best counter-atking (doesn't always happen) and park your bus in their midfield and just keep walking once you meet a european competitor who run like x3 compared to you well then you look like a common-average team.
And that's bring another problem about italian football. Why italian teams alway look physically unfits compared to the rest? in my opinion we lack in the fitness coach area and in the over stressed tattics.
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karma really is a bitch. Both won the CL during our dark days and look how fucking shit they are now. 
