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Originally Posted by rezag
Our wage bill is really high, thats one thing.
For the foreseeable future no one can compare EPL teams to Serie A teams, the reason top EPL teams like ManU have any debts is because of the way their current buyers financed their purchase but otherwise their (TV and other) revenues are much higher than Serie A teams.
My point is for the time being if we are making mercato comparisons we should be talking about other Serie A teams (and may be La Liga teams to some extent)
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I think the difference between clubs in Series A and EPL has more to do with owners of the clubs. As owners of Series A clubs rarely change hand, over the past few years, EPL clubs are selling itself to new owners, ManU, Man City, Chelsea, and Pool(I think) are all bought by new owners over the past years and I think thats the diff. As all they care is to built their club into a strong brand and sell it to prospective owner/s, once it is sold the debt is no longer their problem, it is someone else. Where as Series A clubs just does not do that, can u imagine Moratti selling Inter to Bill Gates for X amount of dollars? But I could imagine Arsenal or Man U owners selling to Bill Gates for X amount.
I know some of you might wonder who would want to pay X amount for a business that is in huge debt, but to those new buyers, they treat the clubs as their own toys, just like Roman.
Well, at least thats my take on the debt issue, I could be wrong.