This wasn’t exactly a secret was it? Suning wound up their Chinese Super League club with like twelve hours notice. No surprise Inter is in full scale garage sale mode.
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Hakimi and Lukaku are netting them close to 200m. They might not be as desperate after that?
My understanding is that the Suning group are something like $7bn in debt and a lot of that is made up of debt that has short term obligations. That’s what I remember reading on I believe the Financial Times back early in the summer.
The issues of Suning are really severe and they’re being kept under close watch by the Chinese markets.
So Suning will definitely sell Inter but it appears that they intend to raise capital from sale of players first.
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Poor inter fans they finally win the league again and have a world class manager and a decent squad then it all goes up the wall and they need to start all over again
football aside from the PL is just slowly unravelling isn’t it?
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Starting reading from here…
It’s disgusting isn’t it. PSG and City are going to dominate for the next ten years at least.
Might as well just give up when fucking Chelsea are the only team who can compete with them, football is in the pits
If we need the super league give me it. but what I would like is FIFA to have some balls and clamp down on all this state backed spending
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I’ve given up on the idea of a return to football being extremely competitive at the highest level. The Serie A will never return to glory.
Hakimi
Donnarumma
Romero
De Paul
Lukaku
Possibly…
Lautaro
Vlahovic
On their way out.
The departure of Messi from La Liga also is a big blow to the image of Spanish football. Atleti have had a decent window, but Barcelona and Real Madrid are a mess right now. Madrid ended up re-hiring Ancelotti whilst Barcelona are so broke they can’t even register their new players.
Inter are on the verge of a meltdown. Juventus can’t even afford to sign Locatelli.
PSG are hoovering up the big names whilst the rest of the French league is piss poor and has to put their players up for sale.
It’s a crazy crazy time.
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CaS ruling in PSG’s favour and overturning City over FFP was extremely damaging.
Something needs to be done about the arm’s race but I’m not sure what. Clubs spending themselves into oblivion to keep up was never going to be sustainable. Inter’s squad was laughable for years, it was going to take big investment in a short amount of time to turn it around.
Management should be better though, so many signings are so suspect. especially in Barcelona’s case. Coutinho 120m? Dembele 105? Griezmann 120m? Madrid not so much better 60m on a guy that never breached 20 league goals in the Bundesliga? (Jovic).
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I think the Super League idea could be back on the table a lot more quickly than many imagine. We’re beginning to see what the status quo post-Covid looks like and its just really really ugly for all of football outside England and PSG. Sentiment in Spain and Italy is likely to turn very pro-Super League as supporters begin to understand the full ramifications of what is happening. Ligue 1 is becoming even more of a joke so I think some of the second tier clubs might embrace a new model.
Getting at least some of the English clubs to support the ESL again is obviously the hardest nut to crack but City is basically making the case for why its necessary, trying to spend over 200m on two players. If that happens, the PL investigation into City’s fraudulent accounting ends up with a slap on the wrist, and they win the league again, I can see sentiment building for some kind of change.
It’ll have to be presented and sold much more skillfully but I think it can happen. Football needs to change. The status quo is just unsustainable.
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Yep. I think this summer is going to change a lot of fan opinion on the continent regarding the ESL. The format might change a bit, but ultimately the current model is so broken it’s basically the PL, PSG and you’d imagine Bayern are pretty solid all round.
Outside of that every other club is suffering beyond what we could have even imagined. Covid has sped this up exponentially.
Football is broken
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@Midfield_Maestro our time has come, again.
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So putting your trust in the people who broke the rules and the sport is the answer then?
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How is ESL gonna avoid other clubs suffering from financial issues?
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Wasn’t the ESL proposed going to have spending limits? Of course taking their word for it is a fool’s errand.
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yeah(if true) but the other clubs are not gonna be in ESL to benefit from the revenue generated by ESL.
Rather with ESL coming in, the viewership will shift away from them placing them in bigger financial issues.
That part of it I believe as its one of the main attractions for the non oil clubs. The league can say that all participating clubs need to have wage bills no higher than X. Clubs like PSG would have to decide to either comply or not participate.
When it does happen, which it will. I hope City, Chelsea and PSG are ostracized. They can start their own competition with just the 3 of them in it, the Bloodmoney Cup.
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The ESL the way it was proposed was shit, but then again so was Chelsea and City being perceived as the saviours of football.
I don’t agree with it in the slightest but I do think support for the ESL will grow in Spain and Italy to combat the PL and PSG. That said it will need English teams to join to even be a starter, which I really don’t see for at least 5-10 years
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