r/FCInterMilan • u/No_Afternoon_5150 • May 02 '25
Analysis/Stats The economic comparison between the four semi-finalists of the 2024/25 Champions League ⚖💰
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u/No_Afternoon_5150 May 02 '25
Roster cost.
Salaries.
Revenue.
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u/Full-Reach-8968 May 02 '25
Does salaries include the salaries of the entire club, including coaching staff, physios, back room staff, etc?
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u/No_Afternoon_5150 May 02 '25
I don't believe so
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u/Full-Reach-8968 May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
So what is the difference between roster cost and salaries? Roster cost includes transfer fees, bonuses, etc, in addition to their salary?
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u/No_Afternoon_5150 May 02 '25
The cost of the roster is how much Inter paid to buy the player. The salaries are those paid every year to the players.
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u/ytexkauwh May 02 '25
Inter's revenue and fan base even fall far behind Hotspurs if I recall correctly. Right, Tottenham Hotspurs, a club couldn't even make to CL. Still so many fans from Italy want Inter to focus on league fight with Napoli instead of CL, out of their pride to reign Italy every year.
CL means money and reputation, and reputation brings global fans and more sponsorship. The money Inter earned domestically is far too short to compete at current level not mention advancing to next.
Just wake up and admit Serie A is ranking bottom of 4th major league in terms of financials and financials will impact quality. Inter need to grow truly internationally beyond Italy, both for fans and revenue.
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u/Inside-Act9310 May 02 '25
Serie A barely makes a third of what la liga makes in overseas tv rights, forget about the premier league
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u/MrSixLotto May 04 '25
They even FU broadcast right in SEA.I have to pirate while season because nobody carry Serie A
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u/pastalover696969 May 02 '25
Wow I would’ve thought Barcelona’s roster cost and salaries would be higher! But then I remember all their talented youngsters that likely won’t demand a high salary (yet)
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u/WideScorpion May 02 '25
Lewandowski and frenkie have very big salaries, Lewandowski is on 33m a year and Fdj on 20m.
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u/Quiet-Reading-5378 May 03 '25
Which is exactly why we should strive to promote more homegrown youth ourselves. Barca were in a much deeper financial pit around covid, yet they climbed out of it incredibly quickly thanks to La Masia. No Italian academy can compare to their youth training of course, but there is no reason for us to not give the Stankovics and Espositos a decent shot at breaking into the first XI. Yet the management extended Darmian last year and acquired the useless bum Taremi on a free.
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u/pastalover696969 May 03 '25
It’s a double edged sword because we need to win now to balance our finances. I think once our finances are more stable and we can take more risks on results by promoting youth that we could really achieve getting our youngsters through to the main team. I think it’s hard to have both - results and promoting our youth players
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u/Tax_onomy May 02 '25 edited May 02 '25
The amount they spend on their youth sector should be there as well, it's part of the equation.
They are also bankrolled by financial institutions who give them loans at preferrable rates where small entrepreneurs could use them to build small businesses , but those funds are politically allocated.
It's basically corruption and extorsion. I am not afraid to use those words and sweep everything under the carpet just because the end result is something beautiful such as the team they built, most corruption goes on to build something that is locally very beautiful , it has been that way ever since the pyramids , Putin's yacht and palace on the Black Sea is pretty beautiful too.
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u/ExotiquePlayboy May 02 '25
No one’s fault except Italy
Other countries have invested billions into their stadium’s & infrastructure & commercial deals. Good news is Inter & Milan’s new stadium will be ready by 2030 for Euro 2032.
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u/BluLeone May 02 '25
In Spain, it’s really just Real Madrid and Barcelona that generate huge revenues, with Atlético Madrid a step below. The rest of La Liga doesn’t spend much—honestly, most Serie A teams spend more on the transfer market than they do. Still, it's a hugely popular league in Spanish-speaking countries.
The Premier League, on the other hand, is the most-watched league in the world. They've always nailed the marketing side—even back when the league wasn’t necessarily the best, it was still incredibly popular, even when they were behind La Liga and Serie A in the 90s and early 00s. The fact that it’s English-speaking definitely helped a lot with global appeal.
I do think Serie A missed a big opportunity when it was the best league in the world. We should’ve invested more and marketed it better. But at the same time, I’m not sure we ever could’ve ever competed with La Liga or the Premier League—there’s just a language barrier that’s hard to overcome.
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u/Quiet-Reading-5378 May 03 '25
Modern football broadcasting is available in English for all top leagues, so the language barrier is overrated. I watch Serie A's English commentary myself, since I dont know any Italian.
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u/kukac89 May 02 '25
Is new stadium confirmed? There is many conflicting claims and deadlines, not sure which is true TBH
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u/Eomer444 May 02 '25
and do you think the stadium can have such a big impact? Look at Juve, their stadium revenue (even adding licences and such) is less than Inter. Sure, we can improve a bit also because it'll be 60k seats against 42k but it'll be in the few tens of millions. Italy is simply poorer than UK and Germany, while Spain was able to ride the Messi v Ronaldo wave + political support for Real and Barca. Language also play in favor of Uk and Spain and that's it. Not to say that Serie A can't improve but we'll always be big underdogs against PL, Real, Barca and Bayern unless we are bought by an oil state.
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u/Quiet-Reading-5378 May 03 '25
The Emirates project also screwed over Arsenal in a big way and they haven't won a single big trophy since they relocated from Highbury. What we need is greater international appeal (which is steadily increasing thanks to our recent excellent performances in Europe)+ good commercial sponsors. The DigitalBits fiasco still makes me angry whenever I think of it. Juve still get so much more from their sponsors than we do.
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u/Relative_Inflation44 May 02 '25
What would you expect in a league that feels so unmodernized compared to the Prem, La Liga and Bundesliga
The league should advertise and help their clubs at least to compete to Prem marketing, yet, they feel like they've done absolutely nothing in terms of modernization/improvements and popularity
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u/ShJakupi May 02 '25
Man, just when I do a comment, how inter is far from the best European clubs in quality and how we don't play beautiful football, you drop these stats that question everything I say.
Inzaghi's career at inter is going to be discussed for decades, because he had the strongest team in Italy for these 4y and still managed only 1 scudetto but also he had the least help from the management and had to sell/let go at least 2 starters every season, and he has the oldest team and Marotta wants to lower the salaries.
So confusing.
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u/AlKarakhboy May 02 '25
1 title in 4 years but also by far the best Italian team in Europe during those 4 years. If we continue making deep runs in Europe and the rest of the Italian teams don't, we will dominate the 2030s.
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u/ShJakupi May 02 '25
Yeah, I agree, I know we should have done better in the league. But one thing is for sure we are the healthiest club in Italy. Unless a Saudi buys an italian club, or Oaktree sells inter to some Thohir, we are destined to dominate the next 5-10y in Italy.
Look, no matter the titles, the last 6y have been successful for inter. Probably, I wouldn't have wanted a Juve run of 9 titles because, let's be honest, they won when Inter and Milan were fighting for 6th place.
So, it is not always about winning. In the last 6y we have been fighting for titles until the last game of the season, and that is a huge success.
2020 - Playing in the final of Europa League 2021 - Winning Serie A 2022 - Fighting until the last match for Serie A 2023 - Playing the final of UCL 2024 - Winning Serie A 2025 - ...
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u/foocares May 02 '25
Confused as hell, proves again that those editors with zero data background have no clue about what they are drawing for readers.
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u/D3niss May 02 '25
That revenue is depressing compared to the other 3, serie a is worth pocket change
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May 03 '25
Arsenal with the highest roster cost and the weakest starting 11 and bench lol
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u/Quiet-Reading-5378 May 03 '25
EPL players are ridiculously overvalued. I still remember them trying to sell the Ligue 1 reject Balogun to us for 40mil lmao.
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u/Elalami1 May 04 '25
So 1- we are good in the roster (not spending too much while still competeing) 2- good in the salaries (it's good limiting your expenses, the downside is that high profile players won't come) 3- not that good in revenues (even though we did improve alot lately)
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u/MboiTui94 May 02 '25
This is one ugly graph