Mike Piazza To Buy Parma?

That article didn't seem to convincing.

I didn't know that if nobody buys a team and it goes bankrupt that it goes back to the lowest possible division.
 
Was reading about this the other day. I guess he follows Serie A quite a bit and is a Palermo fan.

As a Met and Serie A fan I love the idea. Italy needs more foreign investors.
 
whill4 said:
Was reading about this the other day. I guess he follows Serie A quite a bit and is a Palermo fan.

As a Met and Serie A fan I love the idea. Italy needs more foreign investors.
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Would foreign investment really improve the quality of the league? I feel like the Serie A has really fallen behind the other world leagues. It's hardly competitive outside the top few teams.
 
Z4CH3B99 said:
Would foreign investment really improve the quality of the league? I feel like the Serie A has really fallen behind the other world leagues. It's hardly competitive outside the top few teams.
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Definitely.

But it's the investments off the field that the league needs the most. Things such as new stadiums, youth development, modern training facilities...etc. Unfortunately too many Italian ownerships act like it's still the 90's and neglect these areas. The league desperately needs more modern thinking groups to invest into the league similar to the ones at Roma and Inter Milan.
 
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whill4 said:
Definitely.

But it's the investments off the field that the league needs the most. Things such as new stadiums, youth development, modern training facilities...etc. Unfortunately too many Italian ownerships act like it's still the 90's and neglect these areas. The league desperately needs more modern thinking groups to invest into the league similar to the ones at Roma and Inter Milan.
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Inter Milan plays in a shared stadium with arch rivals AC Milan. I wouldn't exactly call that innovative forward thinking ownership. However, I do agree with you that many Italian owners have neglected stadium upgrades the youth academies for far to long. Are we sure that people like Piazza would be able to fix decades long neglect?
 
Z4CH3B99 said:
Inter Milan plays in a shared stadium with arch rivals AC Milan. I wouldn't exactly call that innovative forward thinking ownership. However, I do agree with you that many Italian owners have neglected stadium upgrades the youth academies for far to long. Are we sure that people like Piazza would be able to fix decades long neglect?
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Inter are in the planning process now of building a new stadium. Their owner has only been there for like a year and a half and these things obviously take a lot of time. Especially in Italy. Roma's American ownership also should have a new 51,000 seat stadium done by 2017.

If Piazza and his group are smart they will follow their example. Otherwise they're going to lose a ton of money in the long term.
 
whill4 said:
Inter are in the planning process now of building a new stadium. Their owner has only been there for like a year and a half and these things obviously take a lot of time. Especially in Italy. Roma's American ownership also should have a new 51,000 seat stadium done by 2017.

If Piazza and his group are smart they will follow their example. Otherwise they're going to lose a ton of money in the long term.
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AC Milan have announced a new stadium plan. As far as I know, Inter has been looking into it, but hasnt announced anything.

It's not as much the owners themselves thats the problem, but the mentality of all of them. in the past 20 years or so, italian teams have spent about the most money on foreign players....look where its brought the league, down to shit. the best players to have ever played, are italians.

the only way for the league to save itself is to trust the future of italy. even though I am an Inter fan, I'm halfway embarrassed to start 2 italians every game, and then finish in 9th after spending hundreds of millions of euros on trash.

especially because in italy, the youth academies are actually among the best, believe it or not.
 
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