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Poor Mendi :sweat:

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Yes Emery got a lot of power. Our owners hired him. Emery is the one picking the sporting director. Its rare a manager gets to pick a sporting director. He wants a Spanish one clearly.
I donā€™t believe we will have Ā£200 Million to spend. Maybe 70-100 Million and depending on sales.

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A bit different from the Deadly Doug Ellis days then? :thinking: :grin:

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haha yeah!

Looks like Monchi could stay at Sevilla - šŸ‡¦šŸ‡¹ Monchi podrĆ­a quedarse en el Sevilla FC - Ficherio

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Donā€™t read too much into this. The last paragraph is basically, ā€œItā€™s been a couple of days, and there hasnā€™t been more news, so weā€™re going to write a puff piece to keep our readers engaged.ā€

This could still very well go either way, but this article in particular doesnā€™t real contribute much to the discussion.

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Do you think we could grow to become something bigger like a Dortmund or something bigger?

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Iā€™d say Atletico Madrid is the club to reach at this point.

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What would be the path to do so?

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Hire El Cholo?
Rob a couple banks?
Move to a city thatā€™s bigger than Seville?
Sell the team to foreign investors and hope for the best?

Or I suppose thereā€™s the other option: win 7 European trophies in under 20 years, and then say to yourself ā€œYep, weā€™re as good as AtlĆ©tico, whatever the $$$ says.ā€

easy GIF

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I think the smartest things to do would be;

  1. Upgrade stadium.
  2. Sign next wunderkind(s) - keep for at least 2/3 seasons. Make Cantera productive again.
  3. Qualify from group stage of CL.
  4. Make more & better English language content for a global audience. Grow fanbase in Americas & Asia.
  5. Get a better kit maker - cool kits = :eyes: on club.

However given that Sevilla canā€™t compete financially with at least 2/3 teams in La Liga & every team in EPL, growing the club will be difficult in the short term as every good player the club has is inevitably snatched away.

Itā€™s really difficult to be a ā€˜selling clubā€™ alone and compete with the big boys in the league. A team like Dortmund can do this because theyā€™re the second biggest team in a league that produces a lot of talent, so they can hoover up (some of) the best domestic players and sell them on for a profit.

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Yeah, weā€™re relatively close in size to Dortmund, but the league landscapes are wildly different.

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Also teams in Germany are fan owned.

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You all make a great point. I think these two are the most important.

  1. Upgrading that youth development system we have, and try to bring it up to par with the best.

  2. Work to grow the brand in both Spanish speaking areas and abroad. Something that might be hard for the board to do. Because they probably have to spend a lot of money to level up and start making money.

Iā€™m very grateful for where we are and how far weā€™ve gone, but at the same time, Iā€™m not content with just finishing 4th and winning the EL. As great as that can be, why canā€™t we push and win our first La Liga title in 80 years or threaten to win the CL one day?

Iā€™m just not sure the board is willing to do what is necessary to make that happen.

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To be fair they did that in 2021 and we fell short. And itā€™s kind of fā€™d us up a bit now.

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I looked into this a bit last summer as we have kids who are interested in soccer camps. A lot of the big teams, especially EPL teams have summer camps in the US, partly to build their brand and partly to feed into their academies. Last summer we spent the majority of it in Florida. We were looking for a camp in the Miami area and Sevilla supposedly had an Academy in the area. Really it was more of rec teams that Sevilla sponsored. It wasnā€™t really competitive teams. They also have a team in Boston but again itā€™s more of a rec team.

In Miami, PSG has a huge Academy. There are a few other teams that also have academies and weeklong camps in the area. Sevilla would do well to replicate this model a bit in the US as soccer is only growing and the pool of athletes is increasing.

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How?

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They brought in a load of over paid oldies.

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Thatā€™s why you need the youth camps and to grow your brand, not to buy a bunch of one and done players that will flop or be stuck with you leaking money out of the club

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This is beginning to look like a soap opera

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We sevillistas know a soap opera like Monchi knows a good French defender when he sees one.

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