I love how everyone assumes it's only the 2 Goan clubs resisting! East BENGAL and Mohun Bagan are too... they have not been told they will be allowed into the new League...and also don't see why they should pay a fee to join an unrecognised League when they already exist in the Top tier of Indian football.
ISL is a shame league... 3 clubs are currently owned by Reliance. NEUFC MCFC & Chennaiyans
For those naive enough to believe the bullshit... you can keep pretending that John Abraham...Ranbir and Abhishek are owners
IMG-R are propping up these teams because no business man with his right mind will want to be part of an investment that see's you lose 39Cr a year.
Srini Dempo is questioning the idea now... Wadhawans have enough spare cash to play ball with Mukesh. As do ATK Den sold 55% and looking to offload more too.
Apart from the Hype...ISL is as much a failure as I-League
Even Ipl teams were loosing lots of money . Big deal . Profit and loss are part of buisness .
In ipl there was a season when DD made 28 crore through gate money . If managment is dond properly , teams like ATK and KBFC can earn more than 50 crore throuh gates and add 50 crores as sponsership and other deals in a long season . Spend on decent young players of lower leagues and sell them to earn profit . Stop buying players who are overage at high price . All teams will get money from from central funds and add 15 crores as winning money .
Doing this half of the teams will be in ve ^_^
IPL teams played cricket, a bit of a difference there. EB and MB have shot off official letters go AIFF stating their objections to the proposals made by IMG-R.
I think its all about managment . Kerala gets 50,000 people on average . They can make money easily . Now if they are hell bent on buying an overage player for 7 crore then that is failure of managment . In that amount buy 2 or 4 young players that will stay for years and have a connect with people . Later they can sell them to make profit .
Ya ! This marquee thing must go . But clubs are not spending more than 40 crores including marquee . Do clubs pay for residence in full proper leagues ?
No decent foreign player would choose ISL over a good league elsewhere unless the pay is substantially higher. Gatesale won't cover anything when everyone lives in 5 star hotels. Sponsorship money is way lower than cricket. I can have eight sponsors but if they pay me 1 crore each, its still just 8 crores. Doesnt help if my budget is 40 crores. I dont get TV revenues and will never get it as the broadcaster is part owner of the league and also needs to make money. As a sponsor why would I pay more money when I can get the same mileage by paying less? A central revenue pool would have to generate 700-800 crores of sponsorship money to cover losses of all 8 teams every year. You are kidding me if you think that's gonna happen.
Give it another 2 seasons to see if a merger or expansion is even required.
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East BENGAL and Mohun Bagan are too... they have not been told they will be allowed into the new League...and also don't see why they should pay a fee to join an unrecognised League when they already exist in the Top tier of Indian football.
ISL is a shame league...
3 clubs are currently owned by Reliance.
NEUFC
MCFC & Chennaiyans
For those naive enough to believe the bullshit... you can keep pretending that
John Abraham...Ranbir and Abhishek are owners
IMG-R are propping up these teams because no business man with his right mind will want to be part of an investment that see's you lose 39Cr a year.
Srini Dempo is questioning the idea now...
Wadhawans have enough spare cash to play ball with Mukesh.
As do ATK
Den sold 55% and looking to offload more too.
Apart from the Hype...ISL is as much a failure as I-League
Give it another 2 seasons to see if a merger or expansion is even required.