I’ll never understand the hate Hopp or Hoffenheim get.

He took over his boyhood club that he played for as a youth it’s not like he took over a club he has no connection with and with the talent they have brought through it’s not like they’ve been bad for the Bundesliga.

And Schalke and Hamburg deserve to be in the 2nd league for the way they’ve been managed over the years. Hoffenheim being in the Bundesliga doesn’t change how they’ve ended up.

Nobody pays to watch Cremonese - Empoli or Salernitana - Lecce. But weaken Juve, Inter or Milan Away and see how the league will sink.

Nobody pays to watch Burnley vs Fulham or Brentford vs Bournemouth either.

Tebas is undoubtedly a thoroughly repulsive individual yet La Liga has grown immensely under his watch and his biggest change was getting the TV rights away from Barca and Real Madrid and making them collective which has strengthened clubs like Granada, Almeria and Getafe and their finances have grown to an extent they wouldn’t have been able to dream about 10 years ago.

The Bundesliga also collective TV rights despite Bayern and Dortmund being far ahead of everyone else in terms of fans and who’s watching them yet clubs still get a fair deal.

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If the other top leagues in Europe can have collective TV deals than there’s no reason Serie A shouldn’t.