Adam Crafton
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3,592 appearances
27 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 6d ago
Adam Crafton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think that's where a team like a villa, maybe Newcastle a couple of years ago, before their models started to change a bit, would kick back.
and say, how do we go further?
But I don't know if you agree with do you think that's fair?
Yeah.
Oh, why why are they buying this this this product?
Well, as with certain industries, they see a lot of growth still, even in something that seems to be kind of already having grown quite a lot.
They see although you're you're absolutely right, many of these clubs make significant losses.
Very few are profitable on a yearly basis.
So on the surface you would say why
Why would you want to buy a business that keeps losing money?
Why are you investing in a business that keeps losing money?
Where you have to put in a lot of your own money in order to sustain it?
And also if you don't put in tons of your own money, you are seen as cheap and abused by fans, both in real life and on the internet.
You know, if you're not prepared to go and spend, you know, 70 million to dollars, pounds out of your own pocket.
on a midfielder in the last few days of pretty arbitrary trading periods as well, which creates a lot of pressure both to sell and to buy.
Now I I think the argument, uh I Matt, give your take on this as well, uh I guess, as to why Americans are investing in this process probably changed a bit over time.
I think now, with just to use like the catch-all term of you know, the way that AI is going.
And the impact that that may have on so many industries.
I think sport is seen rightly or wrongly, particularly live sport, as something that is robust, resilient, that will continue where interest will only get bigger.
There's the pretty kind of like San Francisco AI bubble argument of, oh my God, people aren't going to have to work as hard.
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