Up to this date, the clubs in the league face numerous and countless amounts of debts. Many clubs have gone bankrupt and forced to be sold out. Serie A has quickly gone from thrilling and successful to boring and troubled. Moreover, the football game itself has been disturbed. The pressure to win at absolutely any cost means the absence of coaches and ways for new ones. Few coaches are allowed to stick with a club long enough to build a solid, unified team. Many coaches are forced to play a defensive style because playing an open game with risks of losing isn't as important as playing for a tie and a job security. The result is hideous and tedious football. Not only in Italy does this happen, but even to the most successful league today, the English premier league. In the summer of the year 2003, a Russian oil-tycoon, Mr. Roman Abramovich, bought an English football club, Chelsea, for one hundred million pounds. In addition, three hundred million pounds were paid on clearing debts, another one hundred-eleven million pounds for buying new players for the club and of course, outrageous wages for players. Take into consideration that the price of winning the premiership is a measly 15 million pounds, so is it worth buying a club for millions of pounds and getting only 15 million in return, if the club wins. Ticket fees, TV revenues, advertising endorsement, and other revenues and gains combined don't even cover the enormous fee. Economically, it is a huge loss, and what does the fans get at the end of the day? Pleasure and entertainment, for the downfall of the economy?.
The growth and development of a sport may be reflected by wages of the athletes and that is all it does. There are people who are opposed to the idea that professional athletes are overpaid simply by claiming that higher wages show the increase in popularity and value of that sport. This is exactly the case in the Italian soccer league as mentioned earlier.
