All this talk about an ISL squad is rubbish...half the amount is anyways wasted on useless foreigner and tours.......and anyways the mandate of Aiff SHOULD BE to take football to all corners.
I bet that even with current squad Salgaocar /MFC will be competitive and they are backed by powerful people who cant be pushed around so easily .
At the bare minimum 6-7 of current ileague teams will have to bebincluded with a few IsL sides to make about 10-12 team top tier league
The goal should be to take football to all corners but slowly and in the right manner. Just giving places like Aizawl and Manipur teams does not make sense right now in a cash-rich league unless someone is willing to back them. Until then, we need to find other ways to support football in those regions. Mizoram has a good league for example, how do incorporate those sides into Indian football nationally and expose those players to a higher level? Things like a second tier competition or domestic cup can do that and slowly spread the game.
Meant the other "Gareebi"league not the ISL I guess AFC licencing procedure won't be a problem in that league so they could divide it into eastern and western conferences and add more teams like Lonestar ,wahingdoh , churchill bros etc
MFC has spent a lot of money this season....and they can....we are again arguing tangentials....lets define criteria for a top tier team. To ne they must be:-
Support base- slfc/ mfc/ afc/ Salgaocar
Good youth development teams and infra-again all 4 qualify. Certainly if compared with 2 day events of ISL teams
Decent home ground- check
MFC owners can definitely pump in the required moolah in whatever quantities required. But the question is: why would they -- and for that matter, any club -- would sink in big money in a league that would not bring them any return (monetary or otherwise)? I also would have done whatever the Zee Group is doing: just stay afloat till the situation improves. MFC strategy makes better sense than say, BFC, who pumps in money but cannot leverage the benefits.
It is a different story that BFC gives us better football than MFC.
I would tend to disagree a bit here. Did PFC or Bharat FC lack money? Of did the Mahindras ran out of cash? It's the willingness to invest in football which plays a bigger part. Would these corporates come back when we move towards a glamorous well sold popular merged league? Doubt it. MFC Salgaocars all have the money, loads of it, but do they have the balls (pun intended), we will see in a season.
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I guess AFC licencing procedure won't be a problem in that league
so they could divide it into eastern and western conferences and add more teams like Lonestar ,wahingdoh , churchill bros etc
It is a different story that BFC gives us better football than MFC.