Well actually I can speak for 2 teams - Juve and Roma. Both of the teams have increased their attendance by approximately 5-10k per home game. You can not judge Juve's home game in UCL against Schatar, because this was mid week, the price of the ticket was too high and there were more interesting matches for the Seria A fan where they could watch Juventus.
It's certainly good news that both those clubs have been able to improve their attendances on last year. From what I understand however attendances across the league have dipped ever so slightly from last year. Only basing that on an article I read about Italian football a little while ago where it was mentioned. Maybe someone more knowledgeable about this can confirm? It might make sense if that's the case given that the two milans have been struggling recently and they are the most popular teams in the league.
Roma has accounted an income of approximately 70 mil last year, by expanding their market in Asia, North and South America. Juventus are succesfully leading a politic of low salaries. This is why they can not buy Falcao, because they will destroy this politic and it may turn into second Zenit. They can spend the 40 milions, but they can not afford his salary.
Yeah Juventus have been extremely impressive in the way that they have managed to bring the club right back to the top of the league while utilising a sensible business plan. A lot of clubs could learn a thing or two from their example. However they will have to be careful about not getting themselves into a similar situation to the one Arsenal is in now. Having money but being unwilling to spend it. Not splashing out on the big names can sometimes cause issues with remaining competitive. They should look at other clubs with a similar business plan to theirs and learn from their mistakes imo. Such a thing as being too cautious.
Udinese and Napoli are with a positive income too, because they were selling. Now tell me how many teams can say they are not spending on the market for players and can account a possitive income? Maby Barcolona and Real Madrid? I am really sure not a single top Premier League team (Man UTD maby?) is earning money right now. And unfortunately once the financial fair play rules comes, the penalties will be too low for them.
Man United I believe are profitable but are hamstrung by their debt. They make money but the debt repayments prevent them from going out and spending how they should be able to. When its finally cleared however they will probably be completely unstoppable in the transfer market due to their ridiculous income.
I'm pretty sure other top clubs in the premier league that are profitable are Tottenham, Newcastle, Liverpool with their new owners and obviously Arsenal. So there's actually a fair few at the top of the league.
Chelsea having been moving closer and closer to breaking even. The major barrier they need to overcome is getting a new stadium sorted out. They will get through Financial Fair Play though which is good news.
Man City is the obvious exception to all this. Not sure how the Financial Fair Play is looking for them but it will be interesting to see how that turns out. I get the feeling only time will tell.
Apart from Man City no english teams should struggle to get through Financial Fair Play into europe so I'm not sure what you've said there is true at all.
I would say that Seria A is in a struggle because it lost Milan. Last year Seria A was really good and joy to watch. A fierce competition for the Scuddetto, for the last UCL spot and for the remaining European spots. We saw Napoli bearly losing to Chelsea. Milan losing to Barcelona with doubtious refering, and Inter losing in the last minutes in UCL. Now picture this - Milan losing to Barcelona barely, because Barcelona did deserve to beat them, but not in this way. Inter getting one more round and Napoli beating Chelsea and then Benfica. Add to this the Italian national team great run in the EURO CUP and everybody would be orgazmic about Seria A.
To be honest everything you've said here is fantasy. None of this happened. The teams at the end of the day simply weren't good enough. Talking about if's, but's and maybe's doesn't change the reality of the situation.
There is everywhere a bad refering. However the media pays special attention to Seria A because Calciopoli and the resent corruption drama. However it is obvious that only the Italian FA and local authorities are trying to remove the corruption from their football, because they feel the Italian fan is fed up with this. Did the English FA stop John Terry play in the EURO CUP? Nope, but surely the Italian FA did not let Chrisito play. Meanwhile it is almost 10 years Man UTD being supported by referees in England. Barcelona is even supported in UCL, Real not so much but we can see doubtious decision in their favour since Mourinio is leading them and I am not sure before that.
The media doesn't pay special attention Serie A. Just look at the controversy over Mark Clattenburg going on right now. Just because corruption exists in Italian football doesn't mean it has to exist elsewhere. Italian football deserves to be slated for the corruption among its teams. Its ridiculous that they're allowed to get away with it and it needs to be stopped. Don't try and tar every other leagues reputation just because Serie A teams have made these mistakes. Did it ever occur to you that the reason there's no corruption scandals of the same magnitude in
ANY other league is because perhaps it doesn't happen in those countries. That would make far more sense than suggesting that every league in europe is corrupt and that the Italian league is somehow setting an example. The more I think about this the more ridiculous it sounds. It's just sounds like you reaching for any argument that will justify all the bad **** that happens in that league. Also the referee's supporting Man Utd, Barcelona, Madrid etc is all just conspiracy from people jealous of their success. There are statistics all over the web that show refereeing decisions work out pretty evenly over the course of a whole season.
In conclusion Seria A lost Milan this season. The teams are trying to settle a budget and props to Juve for using Italian players and to Roma playing their matches with 8 players around the age of 20, bringing some really good talent to Seria A. Pitty that we lost Verratti, Lavezzi, Motta, Sirugu, Ibra, Silva and who else to the French League.
Let's be honest the league has lost a lot of talent recently and has taken a big dip in the European rankings. By the looks of things it's probably going to get worse before it gets better too. Both the Portuguese and French leagues are catching up with Serie A and other leagues such as the Russian League are receiving huge investment and closing the gap. Serie A can still recover however and hopefully it will. There are big positives such as the financial position that Juventus have put themselves into and the other big teams finally doing something to sort themselves out. Would personally love to see the Italian league recover and join the big boys at the top again.
Jovetic is still young and can be cashed out for double his current price.