Last season, the Manchester United he consoled himself by beating his cousins in a singular derby City: the Red Devils have played 62 games, one more than their city rivals, without even reaching the quarter-finals in the Europa League. The previous record, again equaled last year by Fiorentinabelonged to Bayer Leverkusen since 2001/2002: 60 matches. Little consolation, the Germans got to the bottom of everything – in the Champions League starting even from the preliminaries – but lost everything.
Manchester City, 59 matches in 7 different competitions
At the end of this season, the most tired will be Guardiola’s men, who will have played 59 times in seven different competitions (Club World Cup, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup e Community Shield), while Fiorentina can reach 58 if they qualify for the Conference final. Two less than last year. But the next one will be even busier, at least for those who will participate in both the new Champions League and the new Club World Cup.
Inter and Juve competing for five titles
The discussion is about Inter e Juventus, who already know that in 2024/2025 they will compete for five trophies, with the prospect of a season which, from 17 August to 13 July, could lead them to play as many as 69 times, once every less than five days. By reaching the end everywhere they could embark, in detail, in 38 championship matches, 5 in the Italian Cup, 2 in the Super Cup, 17 in the Champions League and 7 in the World Cup. The English team, who have two national cups (potentially 12 matches in total), can even reach 75, but the possibility should only concern Manchester City because the Chelseathe other British player admitted to the World Cup, will hardly be able to qualify for a European cup.
Inter, the scudetto treasure: prizes, revenues and brand, the economic effect of the second star
by Franco Vanni
Inter on multiple fronts and Juve’s unknowns
Leaving aside all the discussions on the consequences for the body and for the entertainment of this overload of competitive commitments, for Inter and Juve it is a question of starting to set up a strategy that is not only athletic to face the coming year, especially the Nerazzurri who in the latter For two seasons they have shown that they struggle to enter the league and Champions League with the same level of intensity, with the same continuity: last season they sacrificed Serie A, this time Europe. Juve, for their part, is an unknown: they have been doing badly for too long both on one front and the other, nor have they received any significant advantages from the free weeks they have had, other than that of having been able to face the year with a lighter squad, integrating it with the U23 boys (that was Yildiz, at the beginning of the season).
Inter and Juve need extra-large squads
Inter, on the contrary, chose to have (had to have) two players of almost the same level for each role plus a couple of jokers (one was Bisseck before Square were injured and Darmian returned to the outsiders, the other Klaassen) and, evidently, they will have to do the same in the future, raising the level of alternatives if possible: therefore they have already arrived Tarem e Zielinskiwhich they will numerically replace Sanchez (o Arnautovic) is exactly Klaassen. The wild card could be Valentin Carboni.
Giancarlo Inzaghi, the interview: “They said: he’s not like Inter. My son Simone doesn’t forget”
by Maurizio Crosetti
Giuntoli must invest in alternatives
Juve, on the other hand, has to work a lot on alternatives, even if the return of Beans and the complete recovery of De Sciglio, an eclectic of experience, will offer two more for immediate delivery. But it is clear that Giuntoli will have to invest not only in at least a couple of new starters (a midfielder and a defender, for starters), but also in various complementary elements, even if there are two players returning from loan, Huijsen e Soulé, which if they are not sold will be very useful. Access to new sources of income therefore also entails an increase in expenses, if an adequate level of competitiveness is to be maintained.
Allegri’s argument: he makes the club profit with results
The financial aspect is now predominant: you participate to earn and only later do you play to win. At the beginning of the season, the management had given ad Allegri two obligatory mandates: not to lift trophies (or to race to the last one to lift them), but to qualify for the Champions League and reach the final of the Italian Cup, i.e. access the funds that these competitions guarantee. The other evening, immediately having eliminated Lazio with all that effort, Allegri immediately referred to the money that the club will earn thanks to that result, not to the sporting prestige of the goal achieved: the coaches now defend their work mainly in this way, reeling off the revenue they provide to the company. He did it often too Inzaghiespecially when the results weren’t brilliant (but the takings were), he did it Pegs when, thanks to the scudetto, the squad significantly overvalued itself, all the coaches do it who develop players who their managers can then sell at a high price, and never mind if the place in the rankings achieved is what it is.
The Italian Cup could be worth almost 10 million
Allegri, in the absence of results, is often alluding above all to this aspect and cites the young players launched into the first team as a financial value rather than a technical one, even if on the contrary the most expensive purchases have mostly depreciated (who would spend, today, 85 million per Vlahovic45 per Church or 36 per Locatelli?). The fact is that after the semi-final at the Olimpico against Juve they immediately did the math: thanks to the Italian Cup, they have already put in five million (just getting to the final is worth two), to which they would add 2, 6 in case of winning the trophy. Furthermore, 45% of the proceeds from the final must be counted (the other 45 will go to Atalanta and 10 to the League), roughly something more than two million. But thanks to the cup final, participation in the Super Cup was also ensured, which will also be played in Saudi Arabia in 2025 with the four-team formula: three are already certain (Inter, Juventus and Atalanta) and the fourth will in all probability Milan because, if Juve, already admitted as cup finalists, came second in the championship, the place would go to third. The +7 on Bologna fourth seems like a reassuring advantage.
Weah-Milik, the season in a minute: a goal for Juve and the future
by Domenico Marchese
Milik, un gol da 15 million
Whoever takes part in the Super Cup, therefore, can earn from 1.6 million, the attendance fee, to the 8 that goes to the winner, while whoever is defeated in the final will collect five. In practice, that last minute goal by Owned by it could be worth fifteen million. They can be enough for a good prop to the squad.
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– 2024-04-25 23:02:52
