Juventus President Andrea Agnelli says “Italian football needs to recover, including Juventus.”
Speaking at the Globe Soccer Forum in Dubai today, the Juventus patron shared his views on foreign ownership and the way forward for Italian football.
“Italian football needs to recover, including Juventus despite good results and revenue,” said Agnelli.
“We were the League of the world class players, now we are considered a transitory phase towards bigger things.
“We cannot compete with those divisions who have very different structures. Our League’s stadiums are on average 64 years old and don’t hold up when compared to those who developed modern, more comfortable and fuller arenas.”
“Chelsea sell their tickets for double the price of Juventus, while in Germany the average wage is much higher than in Italy, so it’s not just an issue of stadiums. Nonetheless, we must try to relaunch where we can.
“Roma are about to take an important step by building their own stadium and more should follow suit.”
“I am against foreign investors whose projects might seem attractive at first, but then lose their sheen. We don’t want to see speculation on our clubs. We are in favour of medium-long-term projects that are serious.
“Investments must be useful and build an added value to the club.”
How come no one posts anymore on this web site?
Idk . After the world cup, people started to disappear.
Na its just gettin complicated
cant tell where everyone is posting
and theres new news everyday
exactly – it was better when there is an article every 3-4 days and people post away under that link generating good conversation ….. with so many articles cropping up, like the one we’re posting on now that is essentially the same article that football italia posted a couple of days ago …
I think the managers of this site should know that the main reason that people come to this site is to post comments and generate discussion, no mater how silly it can get sometimes ………… we’re not here to read articles, we want discussion ………. I think the site will continue to dwindle if it keeps up like this . Just my opinion.
Me thinks those that dont comment anymore have been raptured and we ve been left behind to perish for our sins!!
We’re a juventus site that offers juventus news. Posting news once or twice a week is pointless. We all have day time jobs and other commitments so we can’t always post the news as it breaks, unlike other sites. We get to it as soon as we can.
The guys that write the previews and scouting reports do so in their own time and they never fail to deliver. The CONTENT that they put together is first rate and is always worth reading and insightful. If Football Italia or any other site is of more use to you, i have no problem with that.
I’ve run this site since 2001. It’s still here now and it’ll be here 10 years down the line – I’ve seen us be the only english language site for a while with lots of traffic and uses. i’ve seen us have fewer people posting as is now the case.
If you want to post here, it’s essentially unmoderated and i have no problem with whats discussed. I never interfere. You’re welcome to write whatever you like.
We tried having a forum and it didn;t work so we’re sticking to this.
Yes, there are a lot of stories and there is good reason for that – The winter break means there’s a lot of transfer stuff and worthwhile stuff to report. When that ends, they’ll be less, and fewer stories – We’ll focus on the matches as we always do.
If you want a chatroom, there are lots out there – Vecchiasignora, Juventuz.com – They’re great forums – I’d suggest you join there.
As someone very rightly put it just below, there;s new news everyday – Thats exactly my point – It;s news, it;s juventus related, so we’ll post it….and we’ll continue to post it.