Juan Sebastián Verón once again brought to the table a deep criticism of the management model of Argentine football. In a conversation with Bloomberg Línea, the president of Estudiantes de La Plata questioned the economic direction that clubs in the country are experiencing and warned that the gap with Brazilian teams is growing wider.
"The football business (in Argentina) as it is can't go on," he stated emphatically. For the former midfielder, the main problem lies in the lack of sustainability: "Football is becoming increasingly devalued because you're always chasing after necessity, you're selling more and more players, and it really isn't enough to compete at the highest level," he said.
Verón also described the financial situation faced by most institutions: "You build a squad and you're already in debt, you work for the next year or the next semester looking at what you have to sell, you pay off debt and you keep getting further into debt."
Given this scenario, he proposed seeking new economic alternatives that would allow for financial balance without necessarily resorting to the complete privatization of clubs: "Not taking it to such an extreme as a SAD, but rather a system unique to Argentine football where clubs can draw on private capital."
