You know what I meant.NBA teams don’t play on the weekend? What?!
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Saying Burnley has no value to the Premier League is a bit like saying Florida Gulf Coast or whoever has no value to the NCAA Tournament.
As a discrete individual unit, sure, that's mathematically true on some level. People are watching "for" Duke and Kansas.
But the IDEA of a minnow (so long as they are capable of the occasional upset) is inherent to the IDEA of that competition.
No one would ever dream of saying deciding the NCAA championship with best-of-three series between the 30 top college basketball brands (so roughly the same number of games or whatever) would attract higher TV viewership. March Madness IS the attraction to the product.
Same is true of the English top flight, IMHO.
You don't find this thread to be intellectually robust enough?Admin - Can I suggest that transfer threads are automatically closed/deleted after, say, 30 pages going forward?
The s in mathematics makes it a noun. It is not meant to indicate it is plural.
It never fails to amaze me how when I come to the transfer thread, what types of random conversations are going on. This one was surprisingly high brow. Well done
You don't find this thread to be intellectually robust enough?
That's massively racist towards gingers........ I see you!
Capitalism has shown a very good history of caring about people being mad! Lol.
For such a smart guy, it's incredible how stubbornly you can bury your head in the sand over this hot take with literally no evidence to support your romantic wish for the future of football. Woolwich produced the 6th highest PL revenue in 21/22: £368M. Spam, who you're trying to wedge into a "big 7", produced 69% of that. Woolwich are closer to United than Spam is to Woolwich.
West Ham's non-PL media revenue was £89M. Atletico's non-media revenue was £169M. Atletico is, on its own 2 feet, nearly twice as valuable as the 7th most valuable PL club. There is no economic theory that would cause a media partner to believe that United v West Ham is a more valuable commercial property than United v Atletico.
Much less Burnley, which occupies a similar PL station as Atletico would occupy in a ESL. Burnley's non-PL media revenue is less than £20M. United and the rest of the top 6 basically pay to keep the lights on at Burnley so they can have someone to play twice a year. Why do that when they can throw in with Atletico , et al who can support themselves, allowing United to keep more of their own produced value and take their annual turnover closer to £800M.
You're grasping, poorly, at a straw global, tradition, that finance has never given a fuck about. Your take on this matter is analogous to Blockbuster refusing to buy Netflix for $50M. You think inertia and tradition will maintain the status quo. Tomorrow will not stand still, my friend.
Don't follow your point !
My point was answering a post that said £30m was peanuts for a player. This is absurd and if you look into Europe, teams buy at a much reduced level and then sell them to English teams !! Brighton and others seem to find players for under £30m !
I mean there’s confidence and then there’s being realistic. The two center halves at Spurs cost upwards of £40m and were both bought recently. Van de Ven was prioritized over him, which tells you all you need to know about how Spurs view the two players comparatively.
Meanwhile Monaco are telling him point blank he will start and get to play European football.
Quite a lot of them like financially based math and will never really understand soccer.
Your hot takes just get worse and worse. Within a decade the 64 team NCAA tournament and FGC's place in it will be history, overtaken by the new 30-40 team collegiate semi-professional sports league.
Seriously, do you pay attention to anything related to the business of sport at all?
Possibly but we got £20m for Alli so they wanted to get yheir own back !!
Vastly more than Burnley v Fulham.
As pointed out, one of the least successful NFL clubs just sold for twice what Chelsea did. That's a definitive statement on the assessed value of the two competitions.
Yeah this really gets at the nugget of it.
In 2023 one can adopt a posture of savvy knowingness on the internet articulating that consumers are hogs and they will accept whatever The Powers That Be give them because they're slack-jawed rubes who don't know any different and have no other choice anyway.
I really think in the entertainment industry specifically (of which sports is a part), that notion is not going to age well over the next decade or so.
Capitalism ruthlessly serves the consumer dollar. There has been a forgetting of that in media, and when you find yourself afield of that core principle, you get punished.
Yeah we're just not on the same page here.
The College Football Super League, which is an inevitability now (to the sport's detriment), will find a way to retain the March Madness structure, because it goes without saying that the structure of the competition is inherent to its value proposition and it's a multibillion dollar cash cow in its own right despite being a dramatically less popular sport overall.
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Doesn’t feel like a player who would go to Spurs
Cynicism and wisdom are not synonyms, and the older I get the more I find them to be something close to opposites.