All right, if the Germans are starting to get shirty about obsolescent thread titles, I guess it's time to start anew.
Going from being a league that paid no transfer fees but high DP salaries to a league that pays big transfer fees to (mainly) Latin American clubs in order to buy cheapish (in salary terms) young players who can then be sold on for even bigger fees is, I think, a pretty big deal. It's about going from being a colder version of the Qatari league, to being a league of Sevillas and Udineses. The shift in mentality (and the kinds of skills required of GMs) is pretty big. We're still a waystation, but on on the way up, not on on the way down
(Alternately, we're trying as a league to occupy the position in the global football production that Boca and River used to play and I;m not sure there actually is that much serious young talent which hasn't been hoovered up by Europe).
Anyways, time for Inca to bless the thread.
Going from being a league that paid no transfer fees but high DP salaries to a league that pays big transfer fees to (mainly) Latin American clubs in order to buy cheapish (in salary terms) young players who can then be sold on for even bigger fees is, I think, a pretty big deal. It's about going from being a colder version of the Qatari league, to being a league of Sevillas and Udineses. The shift in mentality (and the kinds of skills required of GMs) is pretty big. We're still a waystation, but on on the way up, not on on the way down
(Alternately, we're trying as a league to occupy the position in the global football production that Boca and River used to play and I;m not sure there actually is that much serious young talent which hasn't been hoovered up by Europe).
Anyways, time for Inca to bless the thread.
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