Master Tesfatsion
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152 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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I enjoy understanding the business of sports, but the money's not adding up.
At a certain point, all of this investment that's going into private equity, I think I looked up over a third of the top five European clubs
are funded by some sort of private equity of venture capitalism like this bubble is going to burst at some point i don't know when that is this bubble is going to burst and the people with the money the people with the leverage the people with the power are going to maximize and extrapolate that for every single penny dollar euro crypto that they have before it pops and
And unfortunately, we're at the mercy of this because when FIFA adds more games to the World Cup, guess who's watching?
Me.
When FIFA adds new competition to the Club World Cup, guess who's watching?
Me.
When UEFA adds more games to the Champions League, Europa League, and they add a whole Conference League, guess who's sitting here watching?
Me.
It is my, it's your fault too, I mean.
We're all at blame here.
The fans, but they've got us at the end of the day.
They have a product that they have us.
And at a certain point, it is going to take the fans to do that, but also it's going to take the governing bodies to do that.
And is there enough will at this point when
The alternative is potentially the continuing folding that we're seeing of clubs, the inability of these governing bodies, these leagues being able to be solvent coming out of COVID.
We saw literally La Liga had to borrow money from CVC, a venture capital company.
We've seen France Football and Ligue 1 have to tap into venture capitalist money.
The Bundesliga right now, as we're talking, as we are literally talking, the Bundesliga is contemplating a $1.1 billion investment from venture capitalism to potentially help their league because
At the end of the day, the amount of money it takes for the grassroots to invest in women's sports, to invest in the entire pyramid scheme, to invest in the fundraising, all of this takes money that Europe simply put in a lot of the world at this point, it's hard for them to find that cash outside of private equity.
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