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Marcel Sabitzer

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It's not about profits at all, there are much easier, faster and much more effective ways of making a lot of money than building a football club basically from scratch. They're Red Bull, it's only about brand exposure. The biggest examples of this (effective) stratergy is their two Formula 1 teams, Red Bull Racing and Alpha Tauri.
This. Investing in a football club is one of the worst ways to make money, and one of the easiest ways to lose it.
 

GutBucket

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This. Investing in a football club is one of the worst ways to make money, and one of the easiest ways to lose it.
Not if you are smart about it. Red Bull have a football farm in Salzburg, they can bring players for cheap and sell for 30m, and do it infinitely and keep selling for more money all the time. Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia made more money than basically anyone in the country, just by good youth recruitment and good sales. Easy money. Red Bull have much better version of that with football farm in Salzburg and now with a team in Leipzig too. Not to even mention all those owners who build stadiums after buying all real estate and property in the area and then selling it after it increased in value.
 

Philly Yid

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They won't move him in Winter for the reasons listed above, but come Summer he's in the final year of his deal and likely a cheaper buy. Our Daniel will like the idea of that.
 

spids

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This. Investing in a football club is one of the worst ways to make money, and one of the easiest ways to lose it.

Only if you try and win trophies. If you are happy to be a feeder club it can be very lucrative, especially if you can be a conduit between South America / Africa and Europe's top leagues.
 

thecook

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Hello Marcel ... would you like to play in a cup final on the 25th of April ? That should do rightly

Marcel - Oh sounds great, the winner gets Champions League the next season?
Levy - Well, a win will guarantee European football.
Marcel - Ah so the Europa League then, hmm. The winners of that get Champions League though!
Levy - Well, erm, it has Europa in the title...
Marcel - Do you mean the Europa Conference League or whatever is it being called????
Levy - Yeah, an exciting new competition!
Marcel - Well I guess we would be top seeds.
Levy - Well, we don't just go into the group stages, we will have to play a play-off game first against some team we've probably never heard of
Marcel - WHERE DO I SIGN!!!!!
 
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mumfordspur

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So the consensus is that it is a No for January a maybe for Summer.

Boo

For once he is a player we have seen in action (unfortunately).
 

Dean

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Marcel - Oh sounds great, the winner gets Champions League the next season?
Levy - Well, a win will guarantee European football.
Marcel - Ah so the Europa League then, hmm. The winners of that get Champions League though!
Levy - Well, erm, it has Europa in the title...
Marcel - Do you mean the Europa Conference League or whatever is it being called????
Levy - Yeah, an exciting new competition!
Marcel - Well I guess we would be top seeds.
Levy - Well, we don't just go into the group stages, we will have to play a play-off game first against some team we've probably never heard of
Marcel - WHERE DO I SIGN!!!!!


Monologue!
Monologue!!
Monologue!!!

(Mono)
 

thecook

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Makes sense to only have a daily ITK thread when there is some ITK. Saves A&C the stress and means he can ban all the idiots in one go :D
 
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