Italian Football

[botchedpiledriver]

When did it become so fucked up? I seem to remember nearly every italian club being rich as fuck but now there all debt-ridden.

[Guest TheTokenWhiteGuy]

From what i've read, a bad financial structure as well as bad financial adivisor, things started to go downhill.

[Different Cloud]

Didn't Fiorentina go bankrupt years back? Obviously nobody took the warning.

[Malenko]

It happened after the bosman rule took effect, as most italian teams started buying a lot more players than they used too. The changes needed to afford such increases in transfer payments and player wages weren't done, so italian teams were left without a great economic status, or a plan to improve it while spending as much money as english and spanish teams. It was bound to happen.

As for Fiorentina, they didn't go bankrupt. They didn't have the money to be a part of the league on the Italian Serie A so they went to Serie C playing as Florenza Viola, although with a bunch of players who already played for Fiorentina in Serie A that accepted huge paycuts. They eventually managed to "buy" the name back, which is why they're using it again. Simultaneously, having better players than the majority of italian teams in lower divisions , they didn't have any trouble in getting promoted year after year and are back up again.

[Johnny Drama]

I didn't realise they had to change names i thought they were just bakrupt and dropped down a division or two, didn't it happen to marsielle in the french league where they were relegated for financial irregularitys.

[Malenko]

I didn't realise they had to change names i thought they were just bakrupt and dropped down a division or two, didn't it happen to marsielle in the french league where they were relegated for financial irregularitys.

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