Why Do Americans Keep Buying English Football Clubs? 

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Actually, American sports franchises are worth more because of no promotion and relegation, they are worth more because of single entity. Meaning, revenue is split amongst the members. With the addition of SUM, for MLS, that is another revenue that is split amongst the board members of MLS. The only revenue that is not split are things like ticket sales.

@@jayh3283 we know

the value of a team depends on how much investors is willing to pay. and how much an investor is willing to pay depends on his expected profit. the us sports system is designed to maximize profits. no relegation significantly reduces risks. even if you fail to run a club profitable, you can still sell it for a high price, because it is (i most leagues) the only way to access it. shared profits guarantee revenue and salary caps serve to keep expenses as low as it gets. team locations are chosen because of their markets. the leagues are basically business cartels that collude to maximize profits. and sports were seen as an entertainment business from the start. european leagues and clubs were never designed like that, they were meant as means to hold sports competitions. soccer was an amateur sport for a long time in most european countries and still is at lower levels, the leaue systems were designed to give everybody a chance to compete at any level if good enough. many teams were founded by its players to have an opportunity to compete against others. because of that, the idea of having fair competitions and somewhat equal opportunities is still an important part of european soccer culture. of course the professionalization makes that impossible, but it is still seen as the ideal (at least among fans and the general public).

Promotion and relegation is a European concept. It doesn't resonate with the American audience. Just like salary caps are an American concept that doesn't resonate with European audiences. Also, even with promotion and relegation, New York and Los Angeles will still outearn Kansas City and Green Bay/Milwaukee, due to simple demographics.

Its obvious. Promotion/relegation is the dumbest idea in the history of the universe. $300 million for a team that has been relegated how many times is a lot.

@@stackhat8624you obviously don't understand Football if you think relegation and promotion is a dumb idea.... it's literally part of the sports history.

​@@stackhat8624 Go nd watch golf u kid

​@@NathansWargamesexactly

​@stackhat8624 it literally gives clubs reason to be competitive

Even when they are up for sale, they need to be approved by the other owners and it's usually a close buddy of theirs.

@@whosaidthat84 Not true. The American leagues learned their lesson from in the 90s when the Japanese mafia-related syndacite owned the NHL's Tampa Bay team for money laundering. The owners are not there to make friends with each other but to ensure those shenanigans don't happen again. The owners don't give a sh*t about other owners as long as the the value of their club continue to rise, which is why they make sure new money invested and the league is run as cleanly as possible

@@onlydbrasko of course they're not there to make friends. The Tampa Bay lightning was just unconfirmed rumors. But in the case of the NFL, they only want owners who will play ball with them,not ones who are willing to challenge them. I'm not saying they're noble or anything like that. It's not true.

@@whosaidthat84 No shit Sherlock. I would also want all the owners to play ball to ensure the value of MY franchise increase. Look how far the NBA and NFL have come from their dark days on the 70s. Playing ball back then meant turning a blind eye to the drug and alcohol problems in the locker rooms

@@onlydbrasko ok. My original point was that these owners are part of an exclusive club. I don't get what the hell you're ranting about

They were 5th when they sacked John Eustace and appointed Rooney. They sacked Eustace because he was ‘misaligned’ with the club’s leadership team. It’s more that Wayne Rooney is an awful manager. Birmingham have spent the majority of the premier league years outside of the prem though so it’s not like it’s anything totally abnormal. Just a horrible change in management. There wouldn’t be that much to talk about in that video tbh.

Would have to be a series starting with the money laundering to win the league Cup.

100%

So true. One of the most traditional football teams from Norway, Lyn FK from Oslo which went bankrupt and pushed down to 6th division in 2009 was recently made into a 51% club. And was this year promoted to OBOS Ligaen (2nd tier). And just expanded the stock portfolio, so I bought some. So Iam one of the owners now. Though I own 0,01% of the club it feels pretty cool. And its what have worked to get the team back into the professional leagues. Though there is no regulation on ownership in Norway. I think Lyn is only one of a handful owned like this. And it is absolutely the best way to run a football club.

As a Swansea fan I wish we had the same. Before the Americans we were owned by a group of businessmen who supported the club and 21% by the members. The Swansea businessman sold their shares to Levine and the other Americans who have got our club relegated not because of asset stripping but stupid avoidable errors like appointing managers who were clearly awful and wasting money on crap players. I’m glad is members still hold a large amount of the club but we have no power over what happens. I fear we’ll be going back Down to where we were 20 years ago in the 4th division a real low point in our history before we return to the prem.

@@jackjones1629 Why you support club, that has lazy swan in its logo. Maybe it belongs back to the fourth tier of english football then.😂

That’s why no one watches your poopy league . Last thing I want is a bunch of dumb whiny fans having any say on how a team is managed

Salt Lake City is a hot bed for jazz music and culture.

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@@churn_diesel I guess you’re not familiar with the New Orleans Jazz,

Yeah I was wondering why he had to take a moment for the Memphis Grizzlies. I guess it just sounds funny to him?

I'm in Ipswich fan and while it's early days, our American owners have been nothing short of miracle workers

​@@glencurtis6052same for us at Wrexham. Not even just on-field results

i'm happy for you guys that it turns out good so far. the problem with that democratic decision however is the same with electing a dictator. once you give away control, you'll not get it back. if the owners decide to change the way they run the club or sell it at some point, there is nothing you can do. you're at their mercy now. democracy is gone.

Let's hope they get us pompey back to the old glory days

Why would they need to splash cash stupidly, like Chelsea does currently? They buy better players, when they move up the order, because in lower leagues they aint making big enough revenue for it being worth to splash cash to buy so many better players, when their still first in the league currently with the players got, so it dosent make sense to splash more cash to just lose more money, when the league dosent give as big revenue. They will propably buy better football players, when they move to Championship, that will again help them get even forward to the Premier League. Its the same strategy Wrexham has, that over time will start buying better football players once they move up the divisions.

I mostly hate the way American sports are run but salary caps are a great idea that should be implemented in soccer

The MLS isn't the only Football (Soccer) League to have play offs!!

We have playoffs as well. Football needed salary caps about 20 years ago. Paying players over half a million a week is unproductive and immoral.

You explained this in such a concise way, good stuff man 🙌🏻

Mate its ballenced with what football actulky makes ​@@johnmitchell2269

Crazy to think that it only took $10M to get them in the league. Unthinkable nowadays.

Didn’t think I’d see a TFC reference in here lol. Also I think MLSE back in the day were thinking about buying Southampton, Leeds, Sheffield Wednesday and Reading as well

MLS had 12 teams in 2006, TFC made it 13 in 2007 but yeah $10 million is crazy. It's now worth $690 million, 6th most valuable club in the league

@@JH_O4 They also looked at Chelsea Recently when it was for sale but they were not contenders.

i think that an investor in MLS is just a bet on the positive growth of soccer in the america. Less about the format,mostly about the potential of money to be made if mls ever get to replace one of the major sports

American sports teams are not all franchises in the American sense of the word, which has more to do with licensing the name and providing equivalent product than anything to do with relegation/promotion. McDonalds is a franchise, probably most MLB clubs are franchises, NFL, NBA and MLS are not really franchises

@@cryptocris9598that’s not why

Pretty much anything American is drastically over valued.

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U dont shy away from things u advocate, bud.

Its his second love from the amount of detours he takes every 2nd video

I love his takedown of Amerikkka's imperialism and how they push their influence around the world through music,sports ,entertainment and military.Its appalling how they treat the global south as source of plunder.

The guy only touches the surface so I’d heavily disagree. Now, he’s clearly a smart chap, so I’m assuming he doesn’t go full bore due to videos being pulled down/demonetised etc

It's still amazing to me that MLS is single entity. Actually, it isn't as it allows the league to place players in top destinations and make the league "more attractive" to the casual fan. Garber has outlived his welcome in that respect and MLS needs new leadership, and new rules regarding single entity.

premier league has a lot of money and is viewed internationally. the italian league is not watched that much out of Italy. La Liga teams other than real madrid and barca have the same problem as the leagues money is predominantly given to real and barca as they claim the rest of the world is watching for them. The premier league is different as the prize money is split depending where you finish in the table so if a team does well like Aston Villa finishing 7th, they get a lot of money and can then buy the top goal scorer from Leverkusen

Whilst Ryan Reynolds was born Canadian, he does now hold dual citizenship with the USA. Also, Canada is North America. You're right though that too many people just assume Canadians are from United Statesians.

You do know that Alfie covered this in the video

​@BOABModels It's understandable, the two countries cultures are nearly identical

@@craydussyNo they are not.

Surprised Chris Dawson hasn't put in some interest.

Lol that would be fun list 😅

Pepe has got to be included im that list. He looks younger at age 40 in Porto than during his Madrid days

Yeah good shout, 100%@@a.e.a.

Class... Barthez in goal and... Temuri Ketsbaia up front destroying sponsor boards

There has been talk of a documentary featuring our Women's team. Amazed the ex Disney CEO hadn't already considered doing it.

wow I bet he never thought of that

There are enough videos on the boring big 6

Honestly, no surprises there, the club has been on a crisis before Fergie left, mainly sir Alex somehow kept a pretty mediocre squad at the top which shows how good he was And the issues are still the same, to the point where both Ronaldo and Ragnick have talked about them at length, while being employed by the club The club also has either terrible scouting, transfer management or the manager has too much power over transfers In my opinion is the combination of the three

*their situation

The Glazer brothers are no different from former Liverpool owner David Moores. Both built nothnig on their own and are too incompetent to compete at the level where their clubs need to be but are surrounded by yes-men leeches. Liverpool's current owners are self-made men who succeeded in moneyball before owning Liverpool so they immediately hired football analytics guru David Comolli from Spurs who brought with him a protege in Michael Edwards(Wynadjum, Mane, Salah, Robertson, Firmino, etc).

He is american. American from Canada. Just like an european from Albania for example.

@@silviofelix1991 have fun asking a Canadian if they’re American

@@lookitthis6101 Reynolds did take US citizenship, though

@lookitthis6101 22:06 is the point in the video where this is addressed, but evidently you didn't watch that or missed it.

America isn't just USA. Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, etc are in America continent. So they are all americans. I know I know. We use the American term to the USA citizens but there are other meanings to the same word.

Tell that to the New York Jets or the Las Vegas Raiders! The NFL's claims of parity are getting less and less acceptable as the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers are yet again closing in on the Play-Offs and the Kansas City Chiefs have just won the AFC West for the 8th straight year! You want to talk about the Lions finally getting that elusive NFC North title? It's their first in 30 years and there's only four teams in that division! How about the Browns actually being good? Again it took them like 3 decades of consistent failure! Or the Patriots falling apart with Brady gone - They had 20 years of dominating their division and winning 6 Superbowls! It's about time they had an off-season or two!

@@franohmsford7548 huh?????

That's why sports also need a salary floor that is larger tan the league minimum salary times the number of players.

@@williamcross210 Significantly larger in the case of the NFL as there's such a huge discrepancy between the wages of players in different positions and of course back-ups too. The current 240 mil / 53 players on an NFL roster equals an average of only 4.5 mil per player - Some Quarterbacks are getting 10x that!

​@@franohmsford7548 I'm so confused, parity as compared to what? What is an acceptable level of parity to you? What do you think the NFL does that hurts their goal of parity in the league?

It sounds like a dream but it can turn into a nightmare, ask Brazilians how it's going

@@Rossoneri2 On Brazil is weird, some clubs benefited from it others did not.

​@@mateogarcia3866 Argentina potential Bigger than LaLiga without Tebas silly salary cap . By the way how many division in Argentina futbol ? And how much Lowest division club cost ? It's very big bussines Build Seller club like Brighton in Argentina .

@@Luonguyen457 Argentina potential it's so big like the only issue will be the ultra fans some are ruthless. There are at least 5 Divisions the biggest are the 1st (Liga profesional) and the (second division primera division). All argentina clubs except the two biggest like Boca and River are really really cheap just look at how our best talent cost 25M and the teams don't have that much money. Chelsea can buy like 10 clubs if they wanted.

@@mateogarcia3866 dang , that's would be Big competitor for Spain LaLiga , Italy serie A , French Ligue 1 , & Bundesliga bro . Boca , River plate , Independiente , Velez , & Newell's old boys already has many fans overseas . If Investor & marketing team doing the right thing Argentine league Will compete with Top 6 Europe league Except EPL .

Canadians don’t matter, calm yourself. It’s only a matter of time before we absorb u into our country

The Late John Berylson and now his family on this passing are widely seen as being one of the best American owners in the league and are well liked and respected by the Millwall Fan base.

All funded by debt leverage. This is what worries me about the current ownership model of Chelsea. The Media keep calling Boehly the owner, he only owns a minority stake. The largest stake is owned by Clearlake a PE company. PE funds are not sentimental about their investments and look for a high return. Often they leave with a pile of cash, exiting leaving a hollowed out asset.

Brilliant idea! - do your own Video

@@joso7228 thank you Yea a new League for the viewers

well showmax and apple tv are already doing it

MLS games are now only available through AppleTV+

The US college sports system has been exploring this and it seems like you just can’t get these streaming services to pay as much as traditional media.

I hope that one day MLS will end the limitation of foreigners in the league, Latin American families need a means for social growth (BR here)😅

Miami is my prediction to win next season. also alot of Miami fans who are just messi fans that had the hubris to think bottom of the east table miami would make it to the playoffs and win the cup. but were humbled because of how even the playing field is in MLS and got knocked out by Cincy fc. glad Colombus won and said fuck you to Don Garber. this season was a real Ohio w. also Texan with Houston getting some silverware

Lol. You think they haven’t always cared about sports?

Well is the B tier league. Kinda like how Euroleague, Bellator MMA, KHL, TNA or CFL is to the NBA, UFC, NHL, WWE or NFL

It’s not possible in England. The pyramid is deeply embedded. The attempt to create a super league demonstrated it very clearly. And politicians have noticed.

Idk. A lot of big European clubs have dropped down in recent memory and nobody was stopping it.

That would just kill the sport people won't wanna watch it

Or Brazil going from 20 to 24 teams.

In a technical sense, the Caribbean can be seen as a subcontinent, kinda like the Scandinavia, the Balkans, and the Middle East. However, because there are seven recognized continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia, and Antarctica), Barbados is in North America by that metric.

@PythonAsAPillow agreed but per the tone of the video and wider channel, the social identity matters far more than geographical.

it already is a disaster, all the top english clubs are poorly run except city, the rest have clueless american owners

The sun sets on the American empire!!

Most of the European hockey leagues have promotion/relegation and there are many clubs with ties to football clubs, like Sparta Prague and Djurgarden in Sweden

@@sdeepj Yep, I'm aware of that. That's because European hockey leagues are built on the club format football is based on. However That's not uniformally true. The British Elite League is franchised. The French and German leagues have complicated licensing laws that restrict relegation. The Austrian/Slovenian/Hungarian/Romanian Erste League is confusing... Fun fact, FC Barcelona also have an ice hockey team in the Spanish hockey league under their club umbrella. See, something foreign to English football fans is the club umbrella system you mentioned and many teams in Europe have covering their football, ice hockey, basketball, handball, volleyball departments etc. That wasn't always the case in England. In the early 1900's many English football teams also had baseball teams. Aston Villa and West Ham both had pretty decent baseball teams.

For me it's surprising, but not that much American businesses do seem to be weirdly overvalued all of the time And MLS games do seem to have decent attendance

No it's not! It's not crazy at all when you understand the MLS itself is the Draw not the teams! The way US Sports work is a closed shop with the prestige of owning a team in that closed shop being worth billions by itself! The Washington Commanders nee Redskins are a complete mess who haven't won anything in three decades and have a stadium that is falling apart yet when their owner was forced out for being awful they were sold for just over 6 billion dollars!

They actually make a profit. Unlike 90% of premier league clubs.

@@gabsnandes7818yes because the average us consumer is far wealthier than the average uk consumer. Not that surprising when you think about it.

I’m an American and I love futbol obviously but you guys do not understand the level of marketing and money there is in sports in America the funny thing about this is he didn’t mention college sports if we could put a price on Alabama they would be worth more than any of the top six teams he barely touched the surface.

European football doesn't need league playoffs because there already exists in season/inter league tournaments like Champions League. There is no use for a league playoff. There's no value added and also probably no time to add it into the schedule. "Playoff" tournaments in American sports make sense because they don't have the same in season/inter league tournaments.

​@@dohboy88The US has had something similar to the English FA Cup since the 1920s, and CONCACAF has had continental competitions for clubs like UEFA since the 1960s, which MLS clubs have participated in since MLS's early days in the 1990s. The biggest reason why MLS still determines the winner of the league with playoffs is probably geography. It's logistically difficult for every team to play every other team even once each season, let alone both home and away, so it makes sense to divide them roughly along geographical lines, have just occasional matches between clubs in different conferences during the season, and then have the best teams from each region play each other for the championship. There is value in having playoffs when it's otherwise hard to tell even at the end of a long season how the best eastern and western teams compare and who deserves to win the league because they haven't all played each other during the regular season and might not meet in any of the other knockout tournaments, either. For comparison to England, where it makes perfect sense for every club to play every other club both home and away and then have the club with the most points win the league just based on their points from that, Bournemouth and Newcastle are approximately 560 km apart, while the distance from Seattle to Miami is more like 5,300 km. The closest club to Inter Miami, Orlando City, in the same state, is similar in distance to going from Brighton to Sheffield. Brazil, a similarly huge country, only moved away from determining their championship by something more like American-style playoffs (they tried multiple different formats) to the current league format with every club playing each other home and away in 2003. They play a grueling number of matches, and there have been cases where smaller clubs have needed to raise extra funds from their supporters just to be able to afford the team's travel to regular away matches.