sebistica1979 wrote:
I think that the important thing is to add, and why not add the u21 officials, and in any case go up one step the senior collections, with respect to the three juveniles. Another thing that I see that is perhaps underestimated is the expense in u21, but to give an example last season the team that won the Argentine national spent 60 million dollars on the team, and paid 341k of salary weekly, because for millionaire purchases youth salaries also skyrocket, and he could only win that cup.
And you know why he can spend 60 million USD on a team? Because that's the whole problem with the Uxx competitions.... you can buy a U21 60 million USD team and then sell the team when they turn 22 y/old for 90 million. Now on seniors, if you expend 60 million USD on a 28/29 y/old top team, you'll be able to sell them for 15 Million USD when they turn 30 y/old if you're lucky. But, that's also the reason why Uxx managers have tons of money and can expend $60M on players in the 1st place, because while managers with senior players usually buy players knowing they will be a partial or total monetary loss, Uxx teams buy players, use them and get a profit too.
And the "exorbitant" $341K on salaries you mentioned for having a World Class U21 team is nothing, I expend 570 930 USD a week on salaries.
pizzirrucho wrote:
I think it is unfair that the leaders of U21 teams cannot officially compete in the category that they are strong. Then you can discuss the issue of income, but why would it be a problem and nobody says it with current categories in force? It seems to me that we should not lose focus and spirit of the suggestion.
It's impossible not to discuss the issue of income first before implementing a change in the game that will generate more income, unless they make them official in name but with "no income" so the status quo of the game finances is not changed, but if want a real official U21 competition the economics of it goes hand in hand, more income means more cash injected in the game, means Uxx managers will have even more money & advantages than they already have and will be able to accumulate even more money and in turn, it means that the prices of the players will go up as you'll have inflation, is just all pretty basic stuff.