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Blue Star Error posted:This pretty much sums it up. West Ham's deal was certainly dodgy as gently caress as West Ham pay a pittance and seemingly keep all of the income. On the other end of the spectrum, you have this which is a joint partnership between a local authority and sports team to benefit everyone
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Total Meatlove posted:This has been attempted with Hull City AFC(Hull Tigers) and it got rejected and yet the MK Dons still hold onto the Dons part despite essentially admitting they are a completely new club that only came into existence in 2004
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Y-Hat posted:How effective are players' unions in Europe at combating management? Players' unions vary in strength here (it's more or less a formality in the NFL but is quite strong in MLB and the NHL) but are all seen as important to the functioning of the game. On the other hand, the only time I heard of any kind of labor unrest over there was a potential work stoppage in La Liga in Spain, which has its fair share of clubs teetering on the edge of a cliff financially. Even though socialism in North American sports isn't as strong as some make it out to be, the labor/management struggle is very much alive and well, and you can't say that about other industries. I can't speak for Canada which always hitches its wagon to American sports leagues, but I can definitely say that about the US. there was very nearly a strike by players in the English professional leagues which got called off as per the link. But apart from that, it's been relative labour peace, partly because players can gently caress off all over Europe for similar money if they don't like it where they're playing at the time
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Simplex posted:I think people are maybe missing the forest for the tress here a little bit. For one, no one really gives a poo poo about lower division soccer, much like nobody really gives a poo poo about minor league baseball. Yeah, they have fan support and blah, blah, blah the revenue differences are orders of magnitude apart. To put it in perspective, if the Premier League consisted of just 5 teams, you would have a team in London, a team in Manchester, and a team in Birmingham and the teams could move about pretty freely ransoming one city or another. Conversely if you had 120 NFL teams every city of any consequence in the US would have one or more NFL teams, and there would be nowhere for any team to move to. Los Angeles isn't going to build a stadium to help the Toledo Mud Hens relocate, because they already have 6 teams. I could tear this apart and say how wrong it is, but I'll just point at Jamie Vardy whenever anyone says lower league football is rubbish.
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