05-01-2022, 05:15 PM
3 pretty successful football teams are owned by US entities:
Liverpool (Fenway), Man U (Glazer family) and Arsenal (Kroenke S&E)
Fenway have owned the Boston Red Sox since 2021, The Glazers have owned the Tampa Bay Buccaneers since 1995 and Kroenke owns the LA Rams, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and The Rapids.
Fenway, Glazers and Kroenke run their sports divisions as profitable businesses (very profitable) and know how and when to invest, when to make changes and that success has to be earned. They employ local managements who are expected to perform to expectations or face the bullet, their ‘Soccer’ managers are an example.
Before they bought into UK football, they already knew from first hand experience that in Sport, as in Business, if you stand still or don’t invest appropriately, the competition will usurp your position pdq.
Michael Eisner is simply ‘learning on the job’ and is too physically and emotionally distant to get up to speed, he also didn’t get rich investing on his own account, he was simply an employee of Disney (where he clearly did a good job) but that was no grounding for running an EFL club.
Liverpool (Fenway), Man U (Glazer family) and Arsenal (Kroenke S&E)
Fenway have owned the Boston Red Sox since 2021, The Glazers have owned the Tampa Bay Buccaneers since 1995 and Kroenke owns the LA Rams, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and The Rapids.
Fenway, Glazers and Kroenke run their sports divisions as profitable businesses (very profitable) and know how and when to invest, when to make changes and that success has to be earned. They employ local managements who are expected to perform to expectations or face the bullet, their ‘Soccer’ managers are an example.
Before they bought into UK football, they already knew from first hand experience that in Sport, as in Business, if you stand still or don’t invest appropriately, the competition will usurp your position pdq.
Michael Eisner is simply ‘learning on the job’ and is too physically and emotionally distant to get up to speed, he also didn’t get rich investing on his own account, he was simply an employee of Disney (where he clearly did a good job) but that was no grounding for running an EFL club.