Wow, where to start. Ok, about the profit. I said that because of the market. Belgrade and Serbia are small. They depend on the money from the goverment. That's fine. I don't have any problem with that seriously if there are guarantees from the goverment that the funding will be the case in the next 10 years! But they can't give that because it won't happen. You are talking about football sections of some clubs. What are the chances that Real, Bayern, Barcelona, Fener...don't have money for one Euroleague season? 20, 30M for them is nothing. Greek clubs have billionaires as their owners. Russians have huge sponsors like Norilsk Nickel or Gazprom. Maccabi rich owners. Valencia rich owner. Virtus had until couple of days rich owner. And then we have teams that don't have huge budgets like Asvel, Alba, Zalgiris. Zalgiris is huge club with history for me much bigger than Partizan not to mention Zvezda. And even they have private owner. Alba, I am not huge fan of them. But Berlin is huge market. Germany is huge market. Germany is world basketball champion. Same goes for Asvel and France. You have now Paris. Paris is twice bigger than whole Serbia. And they have private owner also! So if you are CEO of the EL, don't be biased, tell me...would you rather have Paris and Alba that have private owners and you know they don't depend about goverment and elections and btw they are coming from the EU, from huge cities or would you rather want Zvezda and Partizan? You will probably say Serbian clubs but in the EL they don't care about your fans. They see where they can get the most money. Alba and Paris can fill their arenas every game also. I won't even mention London. Basketball is becoming much more popular in the UK, London is huge city, there is market for them. Bigger market than in Belgrade that is basketball city for sure. It is what it is. Sounds crazy but that's the truth.
Zvezda have horrible results. Their best achievement is playoff series against CSKA where they lost 3-0. In what...10 years? That year when they played EC they couldn't even be top 2 in their group. Partizan had HCA against Bursa and lost. Last year 6th with the worst Panathinaikos in the history, Milano horrible, Efes huge disappointment...ok I am not taking anything from Partizan but we saw this year where they stand. And then you have team like Alba that you are trying to mock that in these same 10 years played EC final, won multiple times German league that is 3 times better than ABA league...the same Alba that has no fans as you said and doesn't invest money and is EC team as you mentioned. But you have fans! And no results, but hey, you have clips about fans on the Tik Tok and Yt and Alba doesn't but they have trophies in much tougher competition and fights for the European trophies. You see how your logic about fans and derbies is wrong for any EL fan that doesn't care that much about that? Only great thing about Zvezda is producing Kalinic, Guduric...last good player Partizan produced is Marinkovic. Alba gave so many good players for the basketball world in the same years....
Do you remember when Rashwan Thomas played for Partizan? Well, you played then in the Stark Arena some games and I remember very well that in the ABA league games there weren't even 2000 fans. And again, who cares if you have great fans. I don't think arena will be empty, kudos to you for always having the full arena but that's not the biggest thing in the life. Also saying you played the best basketball last year for half the season is one hell of a statement. You were 6th. Maccabi was 7th this year. And they played great at the end. So it's the same you say Maccabi is awesome and the best team after whoever will win EL this year. Real was horrific last year. Injuries, aged players, pressure on the coach...and you won first 2 games and you speak about that like you won 7 EL titles in a row. I remember very well what were people saying here about projections of the standings before the EL started and everyone was saying Partizan will be great based on that against Real. That's crazy. Pao can win the EL now, Maccabi lost against us 3-2, they were 7th, also played great one part of the season and people will call them top 3 contender for the next year like Partizan fans were calling their team this year before the season started?
You speak about Panathinaikos. Last year fans didn't want to attend because of the argument with Giannakopoulos and not investing money in the team year by year. So we had enough. And the things changed. We showed for 30 years how we live basketball. Only us with the special mention for Zalgiris' and Maccabi's fans. Not fans of Oly, Fener, Serbian clubs...this year we had I think only 4000 or something like that season tickets allowed to buy. The cheapest ticket for the games were 40 euros. We had by far the most expensive tickets in the history of the EL this season and we still had like 10 sold out games from 20 games and 4, 5 where 98% of the arena was full. Next year will be every game full because 11500 season tickers have been sold in 24 hours, again for the huge prices (I paid mine for not very fancy seat 1300 euros).
I am not for Alba or Asvel but if I am CEO of the EL I would rather take them if it is do or die situation rather than teams that depend on goverments money. My ideal situation would be 20 teams. 2 conferences. 10 per each.
West - Real, Barca, Valencia, Baskonia, Milano, Virtus, Bayern, Alba, Paris, Monaco.
East - Panathinaikos, Olympiacos, Zalgiris, Fener, Efes, Besiktas/Galatasaray, Maccabi, Hapoel Tel Aviv/Jerusalem, CSKA, Zenit.
And then put promotion, relegation system and that's it. But I agree with the way Alba plays and invests now at least for the next season Serbian clubs should be in the competition before them. From 25-26 it will be very hard because I think Besiktas will try evertyhing to enter, Paris will get long term licence, winner of the EC, Russians might come back who knows and we will see about Israeli teams. That's just the reality and you shouldn't be angry about that. You should be angry at the goverment that doesn't allow those clubs to be private. Because majority of teams are from the EU and things like are not allowed there.
As the fan I want to watch the best teams. I don't care if they have incredible fans or someone that only yells "defense, defense". I would rather watch Mike James in Monaco than Yago in Zvezda. If Serbian clubs can offer great teams without any problems with the money then they should play! But that's just me as the fan. I am not earning shit from this except losing money on the betting. People from the EL care about money and at the end they will see Serbian teams are just not worth of the spot in closed EL.
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Did I personally offended you in some way? No, I was just repeating my position again and again, because, well, that's my opinion after all. I think that 
If I may add something, you are free to say that my posts are utter nonsense or bullshit or any other word, but, in my opinion, you didn't provide any reasons why my posts are bullshit except that you didn't like what I wrote.
But on the other hand, there is something inherently "fair" about having everyone playing against everyone. This is how all our domestic championships go so having the "European championship" being this way seems logical (?).