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southamerican economies are vastly improved and with the state europes in they are going to be able to offer more money with less tax. I can see a few players heading that direction in the next few years. Will probably start with one or two older players and go from there. can see it being a real option for some of europes top players. |
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If more clubs in Brazil could offer the sort of wages European clubs do, I think you'd see very few of their players come over here. I've seen interviews with Zico, Socrates, Romario, Rivaldo etc all say that they only played in Europe because of the money on offer. I expect Neymar will be over soon enough. I hope he doesn't go to Barcelona tbh, much rather see him go to a club where he's the main player the team is built around. |
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re: money in Brazil, here's what's changed: the top clubs got a huge new TV revenue deal, on top of the country's emergence as a global economic power in the face of a shrinking economy everywhere else. Clubs also get an enormous amount of leeway from the government when it comes to taxes and loans. So you've seen a lot of established European-based players lured back to Brazil - Wagner Love, Deco, Luis Fabiano, Jadson, Andres D'Alessandro, and Denilson, to name a few. All but Deco were still in their twenties. They can't compete with the top European clubs, of course, but it isn't going to be as easy for mid-level Spanish and Portuguese clubs to sign any Brazilian they want for a few million. The big Brazilian clubs don't need it to pay the lighting bill anymore. None of it equals an exodus of European stars to South America - as you rightly say, that won't happen. But it does look like a return to the 70s, when the likes of Zico, Falcao, Eder etc didn't see much reason to go to Europe, financially or otherwise, and only did so (if at all) after they had achieved everything they wanted to achieve with their domestic clubs. |
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I'm surprised Seedorf has gone for it, tbh. They'll be very quick to get on his case if he takes it lightly. It'll be interesting to see how he gets on, but I can imagine a lot of European players being attracted to the idea, but perhaps backing out after a little research into what they're getting themselves in for and deciding on the China, Middle East, States option. |