Why do Italian (and originally Italian-based) players always strictly move within Serie A - nobody ever wants them; you see plenty of Spanish, German and English exports and yet Italians are always always at home. There have been a miniscule amount of exceptions like Zola. But you'll always have players like Tacchinardi and Emerson (although Real Madrid did sign him stupidly but I won't count it cause of his general Italian nomadic history), and Perrotta, Oddo, Mancini - they've all been raped and passed on to a million Italian teams. Juventus, Inter, Milan all buy from each other and from Roma. And these Italian players aren't ever sought after by other clubs from outside the league, transfer talk doesn't even happen. Just like - Inzaghi wants a move, he will go to Inter (since he's already done Juve and Milan and Parma... Among others)
couple of reasons:
- For non-Italians Italy is a lovely place to live in literally , people are warm & funny, weather is great , lots of historical places , plenty of places to go to .
- several south Americans already have Italian ancestors .
- urban legend for Italians who play abroad are hardly selected for the Azzurri , see Zola , Marco Simone ..etc although Cannavaro was regularly selected he remains an exception to the rule.
- there is the co-ownership system which allows 2 clubs to have 50 % of a player , most players bought are usually bought by paying 50 % of the price as the other 50 % was purchased a long time ago .
- Italian language is very easy to learn and very close to Spanish and French so it's piss easy to learn for several nationalities .
- there is a common understanding between Italian clubs regarding the financial situation of each other , u don't see Palermo asking for 30 Million for Amauri . most transfers are reasonable cause the club you'll buy from , you will sell to them next window and u could be sharing several players rights
- Italians when they travel , they travel in big groups , like to be a majority in a hotel and prefer Italian clubs in the hotel (Italian club means Italian animation, Italian shows and Italian food oriented in a hotel )
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