Football: terceira condicional (B2)
Football clubs are unusual businesses: they are judged weekly, their assets can be injured, and their supporters will not accept the argument that a bad season is acceptable if the accounts are healthy. That pressure explains why so many boards choose the transfer market over the academy. Buying a finished player solves a problem this month; developing one takes eight years and may produce nobody. Yet the arithmetic favours patience. Analysts studying a mid-sized European club calculated that if the board had rebuilt the youth system in 2010, the club ___ tens of millions on transfer fees over the following decade. Instead it spent heavily, finished mid-table, and sold its training ground. Academies also anchor a club to its city, which is worth something that never appears in the accounts.
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- A) would save
- B) had saved
- C) has saved
- D) would have saved
- E) will have saved