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ShitPostQuokkaRome OP t1_j5anack wrote

Baseball Yankees fans seem to tremendously hate him - asking to someone better informed, could they explain why?

News is also interesting for the continuous development of the contamination/fusion of multiple across-sports teams into unified administrations, that we've so far seen develop last decade.

The source is official, it's Milan's own website

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computer_love91 t1_j5bf4gz wrote

From 2011-2012 season up until the 2019-2020 season juventus won 9 straight championships. The last two years juventus have had problems which have let other teams win. Juventus have just been hit with a 15 point reduction this season and they have quite an old team, so the league is now coming into a place where they have more parity.

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Macro_Tears t1_j5biwur wrote

It’s crazy how much wealth the rich are amassing. Like, owning ONE sports team meant you were extremely rich.

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ShitPostQuokkaRome OP t1_j5bmn5l wrote

Back in the 80-early90s yes, Juventus, Inter, Milan, Roma, Napoli, Sampdoria, Hellas Verona, Lazio, all won in that period - then it became less equal, then monopolised, now it's the most equal of the five European leagues.

PL has been the most even after Sir Alex Ferguson period and before Guardiola period. Now City dominates with the occasional hiccup.

Overall, in terms of parity in a long time span I'd put Ligue 1 > PL > Serie A > LaLiga > Bundesliga

Current form Serie A > PL > LaLiga > Ligue 1 >> Bundesliga.

Then there is Brazil, the most equal of them all, now and ever.

If Brazilian economy didn't go down the gutter they could have been one of the poles of football.

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dandystanley t1_j5c8b9s wrote

There is definitely a business side to the game that is an ugly aspect of things. The behind closed doors conversations about money and player evaluation should stay behind closed doors. Randy Levine does not seem to understand this. For some reason the Yankees ownership parades him out there as if he’s a public figure head of the team who has to make the statement that nobody else wants to have to make. That would be understandable if he did it in a way that was palatable. He does not do that. Every time he speaks publicly he comes off as a pompous douche bag that makes me hate my favorite team.

Two recent examples include his comments on defending the team’s high ticket prices for field and club level seats. He essentially said the high ticket prices are a way to ward off a certain clientele. As in “fans who do not look the part shouldn’t be allowed to sit amongst the elites”. That kind of thing. Also, in an arbitration hearing to determine the yearly salary of a pretty beloved pitcher, spent the entire hearing mispronouncing the players name. He was sitting in an arbitration case arguing to lower the salary of a guy whose name he couldn’t even be bothered to remember. Just a smug asshole all around

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manored78 t1_j5cnkui wrote

Does he know anything about football or is it all business to him?

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jelde t1_j5d09n0 wrote

"For good"... Lost me there. Would be the equivalent of the Yankees, Cardinal, Red Sox, Braves never recovering. They're historically a top club in Europe. If Juventus can come back from their cheating scandals, I don't think anything can destroy a team.

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BaldDudeFromBrazzers t1_j5d0z34 wrote

As a fan of AC Milan, I’ve been following news about the club really closely. The management isn’t investing jack shit into the team, Milan is basically not competitive at all at this point. Players are leaving as free agents. We’re not signing anyone legit. So many injured. Losing points every single game. Dude, if AC Milan finishes the season in top 4 it’s going to be a miracle.

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johnnyss1 t1_j5d63b5 wrote

He worked for nyc (I think in Giuliani’s office?) and was responsible for negotiating with the Yankees for the new stadium. Then he worked for the Yankees immediately afterwards. You can draw conclusions just from that. He seemed to be hanks proxy when George passed and Hal took over. Levine now handles a lot of the player contracts and negotiates on the yanks behalf when arbitration cases occur. And for some odd reason, he gets a vote in major decisions in the front office (along with scouting, analytics, coaches, etc). Hal and cash love him since Levine has no issue taking the bullets and bad press. I can’t stand him.

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howdie_do t1_j5dbz4c wrote

people hating on randy levine without actually knowing what he does....

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FireVanGorder t1_j5ddzwb wrote

Randy Levine is an enormous piece of shit. Everyone to ever come through the organization has only ever had bad things to say about him. He’s responsible for the monument to soulless corporate sellout-ism that is the new Yankee stadium.

Fuck Randy Levine forever and always.

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ShitPostQuokkaRome OP t1_j5e2de4 wrote

They're going to build a new stadium, now owned by both

The San Siro has been for a long ass time the stadium of the city of Milan, from back when football wasn't professional still. So they kept continuously the ownership. Bureaucracy, a hellbent city administration, etc but now the situation of San Siro got so bad, and the city ownership of stadiums is so disliked, and the city administration got a bit more open minded, that they approved plans to the building of a stadium in another part of the city. All self financed by AC Milan and Inter, but they'll have the full ownership of the stadium. Will be called cathedral or something, kinda pretty stadium.

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fork_that t1_j5e9eq8 wrote

To be fair, the Americans have a very strict and different sort of salary cap. They need to fight for good deals on players otherwise they‘re screwed for years. EU football is very different. You don’t hear that they need to give away assets to get rid of a player.

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ShitPostQuokkaRome OP t1_j5eb943 wrote

You absolutely can if you're not run by an oil patron.

Bayern is well managed, Juventus is being trialed for cheating on that, Barcelona had to give away several of its best players, RM is well managed, Liverpool had to get some very lucky sales to get to their new golden age, Inter had to sell, etc.

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yavimaya22 t1_j5elm7z wrote

Wow what exciting and relevant news

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pac-men t1_j5faizp wrote

You know those friends you eventually have to “break up with” because they’ve gone so far down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole that they don’t even resemble their old self any more? Well for me that person said this about Levine, shortly before our break-up:

“Randy Levine needs to keep his JEW NOSE out of the Yankees operations.”

Not all Yankee fans are anti-semites. But from my one-guy sample size, I’m saying it might factor in to some degree. Shittily.

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BaldDudeFromBrazzers t1_j5qufrm wrote

Yeah well, 4:0, such a fucking disgrace. One would think that the club would hurry to sign some new players to save the season, but… this is AC Milan we’re talking about. In three months, they’re going to be on their knees and saying goodbye to all valuable players over the summer

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