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TheRealTI said:
Kronoke has always put a lot of money into the scum, they just spent it really poorly for years.

Honestly, the Ricketts are kind of like ENIC. They spend a decent amount, but certainly not anything lavish. What they really care about though is getting an ROI from their investment. They have steadily raised ticket prices or held them flat despite decreasing the team's payroll. They launched their own TV channel which has led to television cost increases for fans - they said profits from the channel would be put into the club but they have not done that. They used a LOT of money to invest in hotels, restaurants and other properties next to the stadium - all profits from those are not going to benefit the club.

They have done some good like improving the existing stadium, and have spent decently at points.

Overall though, they view the Cubs as a business venture and are focused on maximizing profits, and only care about winning in so far as it keeps people coming to games.
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Sounds exactly like our shit owners then. Gutted Chelsea 😂
 
MemphisWill said:
Kroenke has always spent what the club produced. The idea that he was holding them back being cheap was and is Gooner propaganda, because they didn't want to blame Wenger and his successors for making a shit house of it. Look at their net spend since he took a majority share in 2012 and since full ownership in 2018.

They spend stupidly, but they spend every £ they make - much like we, and all the other clubs owned by these business consortiums, do. The only difference is in comparison to the City/PSG/Chelskis of the world that just spend freely with no requirement to balance the books to keep the doors open.
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What about the Cubs chaps?
 
Brian Fantana said:
What about the Cubs chaps?
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They'll spend every penny the club makes and not a penny more. They're equally shit at making good decisions, but they did deliver the Cubs first championship in over a century, recently, before resuming normal service.

They did make the Cubs start playing more night games to maximize revenue thereby destroying the one reason the rest of baseball liked the Cubs - the regularly occurring weekday day game.
 
TheRealTI said:
Kronoke has always put a lot of money into the scum, they just spent it really poorly for years.

Honestly, the Ricketts are kind of like ENIC. They spend a decent amount, but certainly not anything lavish. What they really care about though is getting an ROI from their investment. They have steadily raised ticket prices or held them flat despite decreasing the team's payroll. They launched their own TV channel which has led to television cost increases for fans - they said profits from the channel would be put into the club but they have not done that. They used a LOT of money to invest in hotels, restaurants and other properties next to the stadium - all profits from those are not going to benefit the club.

They have done some good like improving the existing stadium, and have spent decently at points.

Overall though, they view the Cubs as a business venture and are focused on maximizing profits, and only care about winning in so far as it keeps people coming to games.
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Get them in to the Chavs then Boris, I say!

I still have a feeling there will be a couple of surprise bidders reveal themselves before Friday.
 
Chelsea fans chanting 'Roman Abramovich' throw bottles at French riot police who respond with tear gas ahead of Champions League tie with Lille

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Seven Sisters said:
Sounds like Commie talk to me…

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In a way, yes. Our sports leagues are, by far, the most socialist of American institutions. They are, basically, collective entities where a vast majority of the revenue is pooled and distributed equally and whose workforce labours under collectively bargained agreements that dictate the percentage of revenue that must go to the labour force. The number of employees on labour side is regulated within the collective bargaining agreement, and management is required to spend the agreed upon percentage of revenue on players, who are all guaranteed a minimum salary rate.

The NFL fucks with the utopia, by not guaranteeing contracts because the NFL union has always been the weakest of the bunch. But, by and large it leads to an extremely equitable sporting competition. Every club is competing within the same financial constraints and it really just comes down to who does their jobs best, and who gets the rub of the green at the right spots.

The best players don't get paid their true value, but the worst players are making more than their true value. Theres no such thing as a perfect system, but its pretty close to ideal in all honesty. Not that we apply this system to anything else in this country, in every other market we're obsessed with the free market (like European football) to the detriment of the Middle class (like European football).
 
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