Serie A is poor, the championship prize is only 1/10 for the Champions League, Marotta boasts, Inter Milan aims to win the Champions League

At the regular press conference before the start of the Champions League final, Inter Milan President Marlotta's speech triggered the Italian media. He admitted that Inter Milan will focus more on the Champions League at the moment. Although the media frequently used substitute rotations in Serie A and criticized it for ignoring its own league, Marlotta believes that the difference between the prize money between the Serie A and the Champions League has left Inter Milan without any other choice.

This season, the prize money of Serie A champion Naples is only 15.7 million euros, and after Inter Milan reached the Champions League final, the only prize money has exceeded 140 million euros. In the best case, they will even exceed 150 million euros in the Champions League. This ten times the profits of Serie A are an influencing factor that Inter Milan cannot ignore.

As a competitor, Napoli has no European competition this season and was eliminated early in the Italian Cup. They played as many as 19 fewer games than they had ever seen. This also allowed Inter Milan to use the starting player in the league by almost 10,000 minutes less than Napoli.

In fact, the gap is not only in the prize money itself. In this season's Champions League home match against Barcelona, ​​their ticket revenue may reach 14 million euros. In comparison, even if Inter Milan plays against opponents like AC Milan and Juventus, it is usually difficult for them to exceed 7 million euros. On one side is a match against Arsenal, Bayern, Barcelona, ​​and on the other side is a match against Juventus, AC Milan, and Napoli. It is obvious that fans are willing to pay for that kind of game.

Inter Milan's strategy is very correct at least from the economic level. This season, their UEFA Champions League includes bonuses, tickets, event broadcasts and product sales, which have exceeded 200 million euros, while the three events in the league are about 160 million euros. Multi-line combat has made Inter Milan the only club in an Italian club that can earn more than 500 million euros in the season. In comparison, Naples' revenue is only about 300 million.

In fact, the change in revenue has improved Inter Milan's transfer signing strategy. They now offer more than 25 million euros to Enrique on Marseille's Brazilian wing. At the same time, they are chasing Lille striker David and Parma's 21-year-old French striker Boni. The transfer and signing fee costs of these two are also more than 20 million euros. On the back line, their offer for Genoa's 21-year-old Belgian international Derwent also reached 25 million euros. With these four people alone, Inter Milan's investment in the transfer market has exceeded 90 million euros.

You should know that Inter Milan will have about 2 heavy money signings in the midfield this season. Currently, their rumored objects, Nico Pas, Baturina, and Richie, are worth more than 30 million euros. If Inter Milan completes all transfer goals this season, their overall transfer investment will even approach the 200 million euro mark.

Last time, they were close to this figure as Suning's 2019-2020 season. That year they bought Lukaku (73 million euros), Barrera (45 million euros), Bastoni (32 million euros), Sensi (20 million euros) and Austrian international Lazaro (20 million euros).

Although as a fan, I naturally hope that the clubs I support can compete for the championship in all competitions, the domestic economic barren of Serie A and Italy makes big-name clubs like Inter Milan seem to have no choice. They can only devote more energy to the Champions League so that they can have profits to support a strong team. Otherwise, once they are sluggish at the European level, it will be the greatest misfortune like the same city brother AC Milan.