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  • You can’t. There is a volume of money in the Premier League that Serie A will never see. And it is not a football problem, but a country problem.

    The same money does not circulate in Italy as in the UK, it does not attract foreign capital as the UK, there is not the same ease of investment as in the UK. From them come the real multi-billionaires, here the second-rate ones who cannot afford the Premier League. After all, why should they?

    The owners of football clubs face the problems of doing big projects in Italy (which is running a team worth hundreds of millions of euros).

    Just look at the difficulties Inter and AC Milan find in making their new stadium, forced to abandon Milan because the city administration would rather let their stadium go to ruin than give it to the clubs.

    Just look at how James Pallotta, president of AS Roma, has been sabotaged in every possible way in his plans to make a new stadium for the club, with landscape constraints in the middle of rundown suburbs.

    Look how criminal syndicates own the stands of Italian stadiums and can blackmail clubs at will.

    Why would anyone with real money come and invest in the clubs of this country in ruins?




  • For me, the derby of Italy is too loaded with tension, competitive anger, controversy before and after, often resulting in boring matches and few goals.

    The real big match of the season for me is the Milan derby, which almost always result in exciting matches even when the two teams had rather poor rosters. Not to mention the choreography of the organized fans, always spectacular.

    But I think few derbies in the world are more deeply felt by their respective fans than the Rome derby.