ehhh. Inler (and zapata) to me are bigger losses. Inler is a midfield monster for them, and they really have no one capable of replacing him. Whoever arsenal have in CM will have a much easier time feeding their forwards.
Definitely, and I don't think the loss of Sanchez alone is what kills their chances of progressing. Inler and Zapata were hugely important in their successful season; Sanchez came to life after the winter break, went on a brilliant run of form, got injured for a couple of games and slowed down a little. Had Zapata, and especially Inler stayed, I would've been far more hopeful of them progressing.
But to expect this Arsenal side to suddenly raise their game after a miserable pre-season with an unsettled squad, suspensions to key players and a difficult start to the season, and "thrash" Udinese is a little unrealistic. Even the most optimistic Arsenal fan wouldn't expect a walkover.
someone with a brain/analytic skills.
It's pretty obvious what his goal is. Pressure italian football into reforms he's been asking for for years.... but you know i've given up hope most people have ability to actual read between the lines.
It's the vogue thing to declare Italian football is in "crisis", "decline", "not as good as before" and so on. Galliani makes a statement like "Serie A will become like the Dutch league" and everyone follows suit, while I'm nearly certain that he doesn't genuinely believe that. Throw in the English media - i.e. the "Serie A in decline, Prem the best league in the world etc etc" brigade, Graeme Souness et al, the likes of whom figured that it was merely a case of the English team "not showing up" when Fiorentina and Inter won at Anfield and Stamford Bridge not too long ago - and you have an explanation.
I do think that the FIGC needs massive change, they're a bunch of incompetent fucknuggets who keep holding back the league. Who needs a reserve league? Pfft. Systems that detect suspicious betting patterns? Useless. Limiting clubs from buying more than one non-EU player per season (before reversing it a year later)? Bingo,
that makes perfect sense.
As long as there isn't a collective sale of broadcasting rights like in England, Serie A won't regress to the Eredivisie's level. Absolutely-fucking-not. Just to put it in perspective, our revenue from broadcasting rights is only second to the big two in Spain, but matchday revenue for instance, is about 1/4 of Man United's. Milan, Juve and Inter don't make nearly as much as Real, Barcelona, Man Utd and Bayern (the "big four" of Europe in terms of revenue generated per season) from ticket sales. Lack of stadium ownership doesn't allow attendances and matchday revenue to increase, and therein lies the problem.
Nobody will miss the opportunity to point and laugh at Juventus, but the truth is that they'll be laughing last. They're on course to becoming the first Italian club to free themselves of the reliance on broadcasting revenue and I expect them to join that elite four in the next few years. I mean, Inter won the treble last season but they only made €20m more than a Juve side without Champions League football (€10m less than us, and we finished with zero tituli).
That same Juve made roughly €210m that season (around €140m less than Man United, for example) and with the new stadium, the matchday revenue I mentioned will quadruple, if not increase further when they eventually get back into the Champions League. Zero requirements to pay rent to the city council and on top of that, they'll keep the money from the shops and restaurants outside the stadium, greatly increasing commercial revenue and laughing at Milan and Inter.
Btw I dont watch Europa so can you tell me how the French teams are doing there in past couple of years?
