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Imagine if you could buy you favourite team. Like imagine if anyone on here could buy the devils. You could actually influence/control all these things that we talk about on here.
Ben Lovejoy as number one defenseman again....the mind boggles at the possibilities.
It probably wouldn’t be a good thing if I owned the Devils as I’d be like the Knights owner . First shiny toy available I’d want . Forsberg ! I don’t care how much he wants , get him now !
Except they've got a piece of like ten teams - some big and some small. Hardly conducive to running any of them with anything other than a general mission statement and a budget. You get into that many teams, and it's more for financial reasons than actually wanting to improve them on the field. Steve Cohen could buy all the teams he wanted and more, but he only wants his one team.
I'm actually surprised they haven't torpedoed Crystal Palace yet lol...then again relegation and the money that comes from staying in the Premier League is a pretty big incentive to not use the 'process' there.Damn, they're about to ruin another team. Am I right!?
Props for @StevenToddIves as head of amateur scouting. Top European scout would have to be @Guadana. The team would also have to have @Guttersniped on staff for no other reason than to smoke cigars and curse at the scouting staff meetings so the videos released to the public could have the words beeped over.
Like any good capitalist, they're looking for franchises where they can increase the value. NFL teams print their own money, while in the EPL you probably can only be a mid-lower table Premier League team (a la Crystal Palace) and hope to turn a profit - the big teams have to spend a shitload of money to keep up with the joneses and try to compete in the big international tournaments, while the relegated teams lose their big payout from being in the EPL. Us with a relatively new arena was a prime target for moneymaking, they probably bought us as much for - if not more for - the arena rights.
I know that’s no why they are. Just thinking about how awesome it would be if you could. And I feel like it would be better for the team if it’s the right person who’s still smart and let’s knowledgeable people run things.
Frankly, if the NHL dollars are relatively modest in their scheme of things that's probably a good thing. It's easy to give your kids $20 when they want. It's more difficult to give them $10k when they want. Scale up the numbers but the premise stands.
Cohen's living that dream in Flushing as we speak...and every Met fan is loving it too. I don't know how many other owners in sports can actually buy their favorite team - Bob Kraft (yuck) is the other one that comes to mind immediately, their value was at an all-time low when he came in.
Not necessarily true on the EPL stuff. Those big teams make ridiculous amounts of money. Sometimes they sign a player for a lot of money but most of that money could be made back just from the shirt sales of that new player if it’s a big enough name. And then there’s big financial rewards based on how well they do and for winning or doing well in domestic and/or European tournaments. That’s also why they’re trying to buy Chelsea. And the thing is any mid-table team is at risk of dropping down any season. It isn’t easy to just continuously sit in the middle of the league without being relegated. Crystal Palace has spent 9 seasons now in the top league which is really good but have come a little closer than they probably would like on a few occasions to being relegated. But even while you don’t want to be relegated as they then have to fight to get back in the top division and sell some players making it harder to stay in once they are back if they bounce back well enough the financial reward for winning the championship (2nd division) is huge.
Don’t worry , you are head of the legal department. Bleed however can’t be goalie analyst because we would go through 4532 goalies a year . “ I have him for 4 stoppable tonight …. NEXT!
Just so long as you let me sit in the owners box and drink”Perrier” while the team is getting pummeled. @Guttersniped can stop by my office before scouting meetings to grab a Cohiba robusto or maybe a Monte No. 2 to light up and blow smoke at whoever needs to be cursed at to shut them up.
I want to start as a regular jr scout. I am always interested in someone else's experience and career prerspectives. I can't start working right away from a high position, otherwise Steve will lose his job too quickly, and I won't have time to learn from his experience, emphasize something important from his approaches to work and thinking in general.
