Super League

A short while after Milan huffed and puffed to a victory against Genoa at the San Siro, the New York Times broke a sensational news that a rumoured super league which has been on the horizon a couple of times could come to fruition as soon as that evening.

Naturally Social media descended into chaos, opinions split and a lot of debating took in the last 24 hours.

As a milan I thought I would like to compile my thoughts on why as a Milan fan I support this Move.

FFP

The main reason why Milan’s rise to the top gets delayed is FFP. Although Milan have owners with adequate capital UEFA’s FFP rules prevent Milan from investing.

However this rule has not been applied in a uniform manner to all. Clubs like City, PSG, Barcelona (who are in a mountain of debt as against Milan’s minimal debt) spend €100-200M year on year with no sanctions from the “Fair Play watchdog”. If the super league idea goes forward, FFP will be removed and Milan can invest into good upcoming players just like the days of Berlusconi.

STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND STAGNATION

With the current system of Serie A, no Italian club earns enough money to challenge the big clubs. Juve who earn the biggest amount in Italy are not even in top 10 richest clubs in the world and it shows how Italian football is far behind commercially. If Milan are to ever circumvent FFP and challenge for the top with a stagnant league structure and extensive red Tapeism in the FIGC then it’s never gonna happen.

With clubs projected to recieve upto €3.5B a year, it will help Milan and Inter to make a new stadium and have a good management structure and good team (on and off the pitch) inside the club

DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH ?

With Milan having money to invest, they can finally invest in the Primavera and develop players and bring in the best players in the world through the famous academy.

CONCLUSION

In Conclusion, there is a lot of aversion to the idea with UEFA trying every measure to re-gain it’s monopoly on the premier competition that is the Champions League. Yes it would alienate the smaller club and the huge funnel of money to these smaller clubs would die and clubs not in the super league could find it hard.

Maybe clubs esp the 12 founding members are more interested in using the Super League as a tool to gain certain powers when UEFA plans to reform the current tournament format.