How did they then proceed with mid contract moves? Or didnot the players change clubs before a contract ended? Transfer fees arenot foreign in business as I learned about three decades ago. If you wanted an executive that had an ongoing contract, you had to pay a transfer fee to get him now.
I would expect effects on inner organs as well as hitting the board just means your body is stopped abruptly, but your inner bodyparts are colliding with each other.
I believe they then traded the players. Vida Blue had to wait a few years for a trade. This was in the era of the reserve clause.
It's all trades. It could be for players or draft picks or whatever. MLS has trades for their weird money. Sometimes it's a proxy for money, e.g. also taking a less valuable under a bad contract, etc.
When players are moving within a league with salary caps, there really isn't much point in selling a player for money you can't spend on players, so something else of value is exchanged instead. The trades for allocation money that we see in MLS are the closest thing to transfer fees in US sports, and it works in MLS because that's money that can actually be spent on players. In other leagues, sometimes money is included in a trade, but it's usually only a small component. It's rare for a player to be traded for money and nothing else. This is what NBA offseason trades look like, for example: https://www.nba.com/draft/2019/trade-tracker The MLS trade tracker looks a bit closer to the international transfer system, in that it is more common to see players traded for some form of money. https://www.mlssoccer.com/transactions/2019/trade-tracker
Forgot to ask, but given your question you expected it to be more popular in the Netherlands? Maybe this will interest you, but you need to use google translate. It's an article about the current state of baseball in Europe with the European title tournement as qualifier for the Olympics for a couple of countries as background. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2019/09/08/de-europese-honkbaltop-is-smal-en-dat-is-zorgwekkend-a3972626
We really should have relegated the Fire a few years ago, not only would it have somehow caused people to become more interested in the Fire and soccer in general but it totally would have allowed them to pay off their stadium debt and relocate to a better, more accessible stadium. https://www.chicago-fire.com/post/2...lub-announces-ownership-change-and-relocation
"Hauptman’s term as owner ends after 12 years of impressive growth, expanded reach and development for the Club across Chicagoland. Throughout his ownership tenure, Hauptman led a strategy of expansive soccer programming and deep community engagement in addition to investment in infrastructure, management talent and world-class players." The man is loathed by the vast majority of supporters.
In pro/rel leagues shitty owners usually get their comeuppance; in closed leagues they can coast and get rewarded for their failure with "better draft choices".
Yeah....anyways, the Chicago Fire just sold for nearly $400M............that's for just the team. They don't own any infrastructure.
When was the last time you said something new? An owner in a closed league JUST GOT HIS COMEUPPANCE. He had to sell the team because everyone was fed up with him and no one wanted to do business with him.
Yes, cartels are pretty good for the limited number of cartel owners. And that conflict of interest SUM deal helps too.
Sorry that the reality of US closed leagues hasn't yet sunk in for you. I mean the irony of posting that immediately after a post detailing how much they sold for.
Well, what did you expect the price to be? A buck-99 and a proof of purchase from a 12 pack of Coke Zero?
I guess the irony flew straight over your head. How much money did this apparently crappy owner make by virtue of being a crappy owner in a closed league? Closed major leagues - great system for the limited number of owners in the cartel, not so good for the sport as a whole.
Yeah. In a league that’s not even 25 years old, a dumpster fire franchise is now worth $400 million. In a league that was a black hole of money loss for at least a decade, in a sport that’s not popular in this country. But hey... cartel.
Sorry that the reality of big-money cartel leagues hasn't set in for you yet. In Europe, the teams with all the money win everything. In MLS, the Galaxy, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic and a coach who once coached Boca Juniors, are staring at missing the playoffs for a third straight year. But hey, sporting merit. The Philadelphia Union, who have been horribly run for years, have spent much of this season at the top of the Eastern Conference table, and even now sit in 2nd place. Despite competing against Red Bull money, Maple Leaf Sports money and free-spending Atlanta. But hey, draft picks. In MLS, in its 23 prior seasons, there have been 13 different MLS Cup Champions. Manchester United has won the Premier League 13 times by themselves. 25 of the 27 Premier League titles have been won by only four clubs, and before Man City got its act together, Man U, Chelsea and Arsenal won 18 of the 19 available titles. You don't think that's a cartel? Of course it is!! There are worse things in the world than restricting membership in a country's top flight. At least in the closed cartel league, they don't restrict who has a chance of winning. The "open" leagues may be open to membership, but they're completely closed to competition on the field. You can't win unless you break the bank or get extremely, extremely lucky. But hey, keep saying cartel over and over and over and over and over again.