If not for the misjudged penalty awarded against BFC in the Final, wonder how #ATKMohunBagan would have won the ISL and how MOHUN BAGAN SG would exist.
On the contrary, BFC actually are the good team, not throwing up huge money, but developing talent.
Kudos, @bengalurufc.
80% Football Division Bought💰
Name Changed 🔡
Same Social Media #️⃣
Same Coaches 👤
Ladies and Gentlemen, spend all money you want but ATK is still the most successful ISL Club still. And ATK Coaches are still in demand. 👑
#ATK
The Group *acquired* a majority stake in *Mohun Bagan Football*.
While another Kolkata Giant is thriving with 4 finals across various leagues, the youth team of ATKMBSG is nowhere close. And they don't even have a women's team.
Largely the money comes from sponsorship, broadcast revenue, gate collections and technology and integrity services. Companies involved with technology and integrity services provide data to official betting companies.
Have reiterated this before, Kolkata has the appetite and potential for 4 clubs playing at the same time in the same league.
And no, mergers don't help. Two clubs can't have one identity. Legacy clubs exist, but that doesn't necessarily imply that a new legacy cannot be created.
Cannot field a reserve side because most players are with a 75 crore senior squad is perhaps the most sloppy excuse a FC can give.
That amount of 💰 invested in grassroots and women's football would have benefitted the club multi-fold.
MBSG and MCFC both are without IWL Teams!
Now that's how a proper football club operates! Emami may not have pumped loads of money to #EastBengalFC, but they have already done enough to establish a structure - something that a self-proclaimed sports loving billionaire failed to do with some other much fancied club.
Still agree with the viewpoint that the state has the appetite for one more club, which is outside the traditional ones, especially for younger generations.
Legacy of a club needs to be created, and it needs to be given time. The traditional giants are respected as the greats of Indian football, but the latest footballing landscape demands the hype & appeal to young audience, which ATK did.
Profit? Where?
(5/5)
ATK was trolled for it's lack of fanbase and it's fans were cited as the amalgamation of MB & EB fans supporting a new club.
True to some extent, but ATK did develop a fanbase. Fans that were young, and who would eventually create the legacy of a club.
(1/5)
The fanbase views the club as Manchester City instead of Manchester United, wherein throwing money is only solution for a club's success.
Reiterating this again: Kolkata is a Football giant, and has the appetite for multiple football clubs.
(4/5)
Apparently, a certain fanbase supports the coach and ignores his obvious ethical misdeeds when results are in their favour, and demand sacking of the same coach and points his ethics when the team loses.
Hypocrisy.
ISL Team budget is 20 crores, btw.