Whilst Charlton have descended from the Championship to mid table in League One under Duchatelet's ownership, his Spanish side Alcorcon, although flirting with relegation from the Spanish equivalent of the Championship (Segunda) in the first season after he took over, are, before tonight's game anyway, only 1 point off top spot having lost only only one of their 10 games and having conceded only 3 goals!
Should they get promotion to La Liga (Prima? or whatever it is called) the Madrid side will play host to their giant neighbours Real and Atletico not to mention Messi's Barcelona at their tiny 7,000 capacity stadium.
As unlikely as it maybe, should they go up then presumably this will be in spite of Duchaelet rather than because of him. Although I have no evidence whatsoever to back this up I cannot for the life of me imagine that Duchatelet treats Alcorcon any differently to Charlton with both clubs having been purchased by him at about the same time.
I am aware that Duchatelet was photographed on the pitch in 2014 at a home game and has paid for some improvements to the Santo Domingo ground but has he ever been back? Does he fund transfers? Does he take an active interest in the Club?
If the answer to the above three questions is no then I find it particularly galling that Alcorcon could potentially earn Duchatelet a nice windfall should their current form continue when in all probability he has done little to support them in a genuine and beneficial way but then I'm just a biased, bitter and twisted, anti-regime vinegar pisser.
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Can’t see it making much of a profit for the douche unlike premier league football.
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EDIT: it's probably just an accounting trick, not actually writing off the debt.
https://www.totalsportek.com/money/spanish-la-liga-new-3-year-tv-deal-worth-e2-65-billion/
They're on a good run at the moment but with the second division doing until Mid June they're going to need a lot of momentum to keep pace with the likes of Deportivo, Malaga and Granada. They're a tiny club and promotion would be a miracle but then again in the last years Huesca, Eibar and Leganes have all gone up and are similar sized clubs. Stranger things have happened, but Alcorcon would probably be the smallest club ever to get to La Liga.
Otherwise agree with the comments about Alcorcon. Like a lot of European leagues (and like the Scottish Premiership, too) La Liga's top couple of clubs are utterly massive...you then get a slew of what we would regard as Championship outfits and drift down to a number that would be good quality League One sides in the UK.
Today's results
Rochdale 1-0 CAFC
MTK 1-0 Ujpest
Tenerife 3-2 Alcorcon
Cottbus 2-1 FCC
At least in the Prem you can have 4/5 teams that win it, and errrr,,,,Leicester.
Alcorcon are going nowhere. The only success for RD is Jena, where of course the 50+1 system has successfully limited his interference.
In saying La Liga has at its lower level teams that wouldn't be out of place in our League One the comparison being made it with organized, capable sides like Portsmouth and a few others. Not with whoever is 24th in League One.
And if you start going down the Spanish League system, their 2nd and 3rd tiers contain a fair number of teams that would be National/Conference outfits here.
Will be a huge achievement if they can go up, though there is a long way still to go in the season.
When you say invested very little, do you mean their transfers/wage bill are in line with their income ie not a sugar daddy. Or less then would be seen as normal?
https://www.transfermarkt.es/ad-alcorcon/transfers/verein/11596
There were some improvements to the stadium but really it seems RD hasn't put much money into the club at all.
Is their ground up to La Liga standard? Seem to recall that Eibar were nearly barred from promotion because of their ground a couple of years back.
The number of premier league sides winning the title in the past 20 years is exactly the same as the number of different La Liga winners.
If barca have won it 9 times Madrid 8 times atletico 1 seville 1 villareal 1
That’s worse than Man Utd 9 Arsenal 3 chelsea 4 Man City 4 leicester 1
I’ve completely just made up numbers there but just making the point that if it’s spread out amongst the few winners more is better than the domination of just a couple of teams
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Atletico Madrid
Valencia
Sevilla
Villarreal
Real Sociedad
Athletic Bilbao
Malaga
Then going back a few more years, Deportivo La Coruña and Celta Vigo.
Surely this is a good measure of how competitive La Liga is.
Barca 9 Real Madrid 6 Valencia 2 Atletico 1 Deportivo 1
Man U 8 Chelsea 5 City 3 Arsenal 2 Leicester 1
Naturally Barca and Real dominate in Spain but then again Man U probably would've won about 5 more were it not for the takeovers at Chelsea and City. This is why i hate it when people moan about those clubs only being successful because of the oil money. Who cares? It's helped make our league competitive.
Just wanted to shaft us
La liga, Barca 7,RM 2 AM 1
Prem, MU 3,Che 3,MC 3,Lei 1
A wider split methinks.