According to the website Transfermarkt, the total value of the 791 footballers integrated into the 26 clubs that will start the Argentina League is about 800 million euros, a figure that just exceeds the clause of Leo messi at Barcelona. As if that were not enough, the player best valued by the same portal, Thiago Almada, has recently been separated from Vélez Sarsfield for being accused of sexual assault.
Feb 11, 2021 at 13:29
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The figure reflects the state in which they are not only the Argentine championship but all the South Americans, which have less and less presence in the finals of the Club World Cups. Of the last 11 editions of this competition, in five of them the winner of the Liberators cup It has not even qualified for the final, a fact that speaks for itself.
However, the pandemic is being felt in football in all corners of the planet. The recent winter transfer market reflects the drastic decrease in investment compared to the previous season. The Premier League, again the highest spender, reduced spending from 242 to 85 million, and the Spanish League was a distant eighth, behind Netherlands, Portugal The Turkey. In Spain, the annual budgets of all teams have been reduced, except in the cases of Sevilla, Granada, Osasuna, Y Valladolid. A report from the agency Deloitte Football Money League He estimates the deficit of the 20 European clubs with the highest profits for the 20-21 season at 2,000 million euros, practically double what was already lost last season.
Meanwhile, even the economic collapse of European football does not serve Argentine football to shorten distances. To understand the proportions, the highest paid player in the Argentine League is Carlos Tevez, that at 37 years old and in the ranks of Boca Juniors He has a salary of around 1.3 million euros per year. The figure is equivalent to the average value of a footballer’s chip in the Sheffield United, the club with the lowest budget in the Premier League.
The Argentine League will start this Friday with 26 participants divided into two zones, it will only have 13 games before reaching the play-offs and there will be no relegation. This format is due to an attempt to transition to a league with 20 clubs and that lasts the whole season, or at least that is the idea they hold Disney Y TNT, the owners of the television rights. What both companies want is to have a more profitable and salable product abroad to recoup their investment, since the subscriptions that give access to the matches are not enough for them.
