pfim
Player Valuation: £40m
They can’t afford an MLS team and they’d never be allowed into that closed group.This is the thing for me about the paranoia that may be growing around here: The stuff that's coming out is all true. And it's fairly easy these days for somebody who's really interested in something (whether a journalist or a run of the mill obsessive) to do things like have search alerts and stuff like that, or to do a quick search of local news sources for what's happening with top division football clubs in any country. It's not the fault of the journalists involved that stuff keeps happening just about every day showing how dodgy these guys are, and it's weird to me that the stuff continuing to happen is creating doubts about the people passing on that it's happening.
It's a pretty massive story that a series of big name and fairly historical clubs worldwide gets taken over by a group of people like this over the course of a very short time frame, and even more so that some of those instances involve things like existing regulation being ignored to allow them to take over. These are the kinds of things where the biggest names in media generally ignore, then after it all blows up people start digging into it and eventually do podcast series or write books about it. The journalists are just doing that in advance, as it's all happening in broad daylight in front of everybody with publicly filed disclosures on just about everything.
And honestly, it should set off alarms without anything else these guys are from the USA, their only interests in the USA seem to be in some of the murkiest financial swamps in existence, and meanwhile their other endeavours worldwide are uniformly on a shaky footing. There's a reason why they aren't making a push for any American teams - I'd be surprised if anybody in American sports business would return their calls.