Toothiewabbit Supersonic February 23, 2015 Share February 23, 2015 Sad to witness this. The likes of Juve and Milan no longer have the financial clout to take on richer clubs, to bring in the best players. ↡ Advertisement 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver_blade Turbocharged February 23, 2015 Share February 23, 2015 On 2/23/2015 at 2:40 AM, Spring said: This club has a rich history so really sad to see them going out of business. Italian clubs seem to be in bad financial shape over the last few years and even the Milan teams are not spared. In my view, it's tough financially to run a football club and very unlikely to break even, let alone make money. EPL with their huge TV revenue has set a high benchmark by paying astronomical salaries and high ticket prices so the rest of Europe is struggling to match this.... Yup. Really sad to see it ended like this. Used to be one of the top teams. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evillusion Supersonic February 23, 2015 Share February 23, 2015 (edited) I remembered one Italian player who was asked would he want to play in the EPL in the early 90s....he said this...'EPL is a league for retirees!' I have forgotten which player said those words......but the stage have come a full circle! Edited February 23, 2015 by Eviilusion Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divers 2nd Gear February 23, 2015 Share February 23, 2015 On 2/23/2015 at 3:13 AM, Scion said: i was a huge fan of Italian football, especially in the 80s and 90s the superstars used to play at Serie A, from Maradona, Van Basten, Gullit, Baggio, Batistuta, to Zidane, Ronaldo (fat), Neved, Cannavaro, Nesta, etc sad to see Serie A in such a poor state now outcompeted by Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga Bro, you forgot Maldini?? Signori consider good or not? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scion Turbocharged February 24, 2015 Author Share February 24, 2015 On 2/23/2015 at 3:29 PM, Divers said: Bro, you forgot Maldini?? Signori consider good or not? yes, and Baresi, Donadoni, Costacurta, Albertini remind me of the first Championship Manager game I've played 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuan 6th Gear February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 On 2/23/2015 at 3:13 AM, Scion said: i was a huge fan of Italian football, especially in the 80s and 90s the superstars used to play at Serie A, from Maradona, Van Basten, Gullit, Baggio, Batistuta, to Zidane, Ronaldo (fat), Neved, Cannavaro, Nesta, etc sad to see Serie A in such a poor state now outcompeted by Premier League, La Liga and Bundesliga Who still remember Gianluigi Lentini? That Torino guy who joined AC Milan in the early 90s for a world record transfer fee. Subsequently he was involved in a car accident which limited his playing career. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spurman Supercharged February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 Champipnship manager in early 90s. Lentini in milan... injured 1 season one. Lol. N theres the 3 ft rules.... Gullit, rijkard, laudrup, the croat prosinesik or bojak, the bearded guy, very good player too. actually a good rule... at that time m league also 3 ft rules... seems better than unlimited fts... Sadly football nowadays in many leagues plays too many ft..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scion Turbocharged February 24, 2015 Author Share February 24, 2015 On 2/24/2015 at 7:43 AM, Spurman said: Champipnship manager in early 90s. Lentini in milan... injured 1 season one. Lol. N theres the 3 ft rules.... Gullit, rijkard, laudrup, the croat prosinesik or bojak, the bearded guy, very good player too. actually a good rule... at that time m league also 3 ft rules... seems better than unlimited fts... Sadly football nowadays in many leagues plays too many ft..... but bo bian leh if Premier League limits number of FTs to only 3 per team, its standard will surely plunge as there are not enough good English players but for an English club to field entirely foreign players (Arsenal and Chelsea a couple of times) is really Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nephilim 1st Gear February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 On 2/24/2015 at 12:47 AM, Scion said: yes, and Baresi, Donadoni, Costacurta, Albertini remind me of the first Championship Manager game I've played Recognize this Milan player? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingenius Turbocharged February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 Talk about corruption, who is more corrupted than FIFA ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuan 6th Gear February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 On 2/24/2015 at 12:30 PM, Nephilim said: Recognize this Milan player? He still is as handsome as ever and he has aged gracefully over the years and notwithstanding he is occupying the hot seat at Real Madrid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myxilplix Turbocharged February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 According to this BBC article dated yesterday, Parma still has a sliver of hope.. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31588196 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vid Hypersonic February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 Never expected something like this can happen to a top league club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoverofCar 6th Gear February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 Whenever I eat my parma Ham with sweet honeydews... I will remember there is a.club named parma FC existed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged February 24, 2015 Share February 24, 2015 (edited) On 2/23/2015 at 5:14 AM, Bismarck said: Italy just won the world cup in 82, so there is an increase interest in Italian football from Singaporeans. I remembered other than English and Italian football, German football was also featured on Ch 5. The German english commentator was also a game host(in english) for a German game show too The Italian football can pay the highest salary and the level football is higher too, though boring. More tactical and defensive. Most of the footballers will want to go there because it is consider the highest level in club football. South American stars will go there is also because of language and culture reasons. But from what I know, in terms of being a supporter, in Singapore and South East Asia alone, English clubs have more supporters. And that was before the EPL era. Other than Maradona, there is a Brazi first choice striker Careca to help score the goals for Napoli. But before Maradona joined, Napoli's reputation definitely is not as big as Juventus and the Milan clubs. In fact I think it is even less reputed than Torino at that time. I think it is partly because of English club ban in European league causing many big star to be not willing to come to England to play Edited February 24, 2015 by Joseph22 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scion Turbocharged February 25, 2015 Author Share February 25, 2015 even if Parma survives, it's likely to wander around the lower divisions for years, maybe decades, just like Leeds united now! but Leeds had not have such huge debts even during its lowest point, and it had some good players for sale during that period (Ferdinard, Woodgate, Milner, Viduka, etc) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
L23 6th Gear February 25, 2015 Share February 25, 2015 (edited) On 2/25/2015 at 12:42 AM, Scion said: even if Parma survives, it's likely to wander around the lower divisions for years, maybe decades, just like Leeds united now! but Leeds had not have such huge debts even during its lowest point, and it had some good players for sale during that period (Ferdinard, Woodgate, Milner, Viduka, etc) They may not have that kind of famous players to sell.. but they have 226 players under their book. I believe they can fetch in some good money if they choose to sell their best 180 players . Edited February 25, 2015 by L23 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scion Turbocharged February 25, 2015 Author Share February 25, 2015 On 2/25/2015 at 1:45 AM, L23 said: They may not have that kind of famous players to sell.. but they have 226 players under their book. I believe they can fetch in some good money if they choose to sell their best 180 players . well, retrenchment hits even a football club when a football club goes bankrupt, its players all tio retrenched ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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