http://news.naver.com/sports/index....&mod=read&office_id=241&article_id=0000033197 This is great news
Did you actually want them to get promoted? I don't see how that's anything different from a neutral fan rooting for Jeonnam in the FA Cup finals. This is great news and great news only
I disagree. This is actually a better news for the league moreso than the fans. The league doesn't need another circus team.
Yea, lol. On a serious note, I hope Mipo's rejection gives a slap in the face to both the K-League and National League. I don't want to defend these liars by any means, but the fact that two of the richest sides in the league rejected to play in K1 goes on to prove that something is FCUKED UP. This current "promotion system" is pretty much laughable. Unless they do something to revamp second division football, we're never gonna see proper promotion/relegation system in this country. So are they gonna do something about it? Probably not. Not anytime soon.
Yeah, I don't understand the reason why clubs are forced to pay the K-League Assoc. $2M USD up front, when in reality, the KFA and K-League should distribute revenues to these teams.
I don't know. I'm still trying to make sense of all this. where is JA?! [youtube]ILdz-DNiBdw[/youtube]
why are football officials so obsessed with the relegation system? I mean, it just seems like the logic is "everyone has it so Korea must have it too." In those countries it seems to make sense since there are so many soccer clubs with a big fanbase that wants their club to "be the best." Korean fanbase is so small the relegation system is like putting the carriage before the horse. They can put the relegation system once National league fans start to complain. Mipo Josun... I can't see them really bringing in that much more fanbase for K-league...
First of all, I support Mipo, so let's not be slagging them off as a club. I'll take a dolphin mascot from a club located at an ocean shipyard (makes sense to me) over a flying unicorn from some religious nutjob club (Seongnam) any day of the week. Give some respect to Korea's cup killers. 2006 FA Cup finalists, you goofs. Now with that out of the way... The gap between the K-League and the N-League is massive. Promotion works when a club gets a large financial prize for being promoted, plus a chunk of lucrative top-flight TV revenues. In Korea... the club has to pay a fee to go up, as things stand at the moment. So instead of a carrot, newly-promoted clubs face a stick. Korean football would be smarter to implement promotion and relegation between the N-League and K3-League first, then between the K-League and N-League later on when there's greater parity. And perhaps wait until there's some decent TV revenue before expecting N-League clubs to be able to make the jump - or at least have some sort of financial prize, rather than making them pay a "franchise fee". Instead of just asking every N-League club if they either A) want to get promoted, or B) don't want to get promoted, there need to be some clear and serious rules for clubs wanting to get promoted - such as stadium requirements. Geez, you even have this when ninth-division clubs in England want to get promoted to the eighth division, and yet the multi-billion won K-League doesn't have such things. Gong show or what! Mipo shouldn't be told after they win the N-League that their ground isn't up to scratch - they should know the requirements well in advance. And they shouldn't receive (well dodgy) undue pressure to relocate to Seoul, either. Fecking Korean footie politics can get stuffed. And let's not be fooled into thinking that the concepts of promotion and relegation are completely foreign - just look across the water at how things are run in Japan. Brilliantly.
The promotion-relegation system is win-win for everybody. From the league's perspective, implementing lower divisions creates a niche for sub-par players. These "sub-par" players usually include youngsters that have the potential but aren't polished enough to play with the big boys. For instance, Ha Tae-gyoon, instead of riding the reserves for Suwon, can choose to play for a top-flight second division team with hope of entering division one in a year or two. Unfortunately, the K-League reserve league is a direct competitor of the National League. For the players that want top-flight exposure, its a no brainer to choose a K-League squad over a National-League squad. The merit in playing for the National-League is of course, glory and the fans. But the problem is that there are no fans for the National-League. Which takes me to BWA's point: It's easier said than done. The main problem with the K-League (clubs + administration) is that they are still clueless in choosing a profitable business model. For the KFA, the National Team satisfies most of the football demand in Korea. The excess demand is left for the K-League, but its level of play, not enough star players, ect, doesn't actually soak up the demand but rather rejects it. On this note, I'm no industry expert but having all these new amateur teams popping out around the country couldn't be good for the market. The piece of the pie is only so big but everyone wants a bite. Does Seoul really need more than 1 team? Not really. We'll talk after FC Seoul sells out every game. If that's so, does Korea really need a second division or third? Not really. We'll talk after the K-League Associations brings in billions of USD in revenue, per season. Japan, on the flip-side, aren't running things to smoothly either. They have even more capacity than Korea, and the excess capacity goes straight (or rather brings down) the bottom-line. We're seeing a few teams with a lot of fans that doesn't necessarily translate into media profit. No media profit = no league = no money for everyone.
