Re:US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
by tguedes on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @08:59AM
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I think his point is that a lot of people are blaming the Americans for this when the 2 largest and greediest clubs in the world are "run" by fans. So it has nothing to do with the Americans, it's that European football has become so greedy at the top.
Re:US owners find greed doesn't play well in European soccer
by gerikson on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @09:05AM
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That's fair.
The American franchise model has a lot of advantages (or it would not be so popular) - steady income stream, revenue sharing, lower player acquisition costs.
But I also think the average European soccer fan thinks that the current status quo is bad, and introducing measures to increase the concentration of power and money is to be decried.
> But Kroenke, Henry and the Glazers, believed to be the ringleaders of the Super League fiasco along with Real Madrid’s Florentino Perez, badly miscalculated.