The story of the super league, a competition that would have seen the participation of the top 12 European clubs, has highlighted the bad state in which European football is now, submerged by debts and now entered into a spiral that is no longer sustainable over time. The high salaries of computers are the big problem and nowadays the advertising revenues are no longer able to cover the expenses. An average player receives a salary of 4/5 million euros but it costs the company twice as much if including taxes, insurance, pension contributions etc. A team is made up of an average of 26/30 players and this means an annual expenditure of up to 200/300 million euros. Madness.
The total debt of the 12 football teams involved in the super league amounts to about 7.7 billion euros, companies that represent the pride of world football and to maintain a certain prestige, a certain image competition is evident which, however, has always left aftermath deeper and the pandemic was the hardest blow. Losses from fans, TV rights halved, merchandising collapsed, and the entire associated business halved if not worse, forced the clubs to score extremely bloody accounts. The most indebted club, for example, is Chelsea with € 1.5 billion, a disproportionate sum that could seriously harm the health of the club.
The member clubs of the Superlega, but not only, have not initially been able to refuse the proposal financed by the American bank JP Morgan for a total of over 3.5 billion promised, a sum that is too attractive and that would have largely restored the debts of the clubs. But UEFA, criticized by clubs for its economic greed, immediately initiated intimidation such as exclusion from domestic leagues and Champions League, and this has forced a rethink by clubs excluding Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus. The diatribe is still ongoing.
Beyond the reasons, what is evident is the no longer sustainability of a system that has seen an exponential increase in costs in recent years. Paying players with tens of millions of euros is not acceptable not only economically but ethically, if we think about what is in any part of the world. Also this is a bad example for kids who aim to become footballers for money and not for passion.
I personally stopped following football for this reason as well. I don't really think this round of money can be ascertained to see 22 players running after a ball and then performing on social media like perfect idiots. True calculators such as Van Basten, Pelé, Baggio and many others who in the previous decades raised the value of sport, today find no heirs worthy of their name in football. And here I realize that now football has taken a different path, managed by the god of money, and like all things that deviate on this path, are destined to fail over time.
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