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Will Kuntz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
162 total appearances

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Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

And I think even with the money we're spending now, and you guys were talking about this the other day, you can have deeper rosters. But, man, it's really punishing if you have the wrong injuries in MLS.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

And I think even with the money we're spending now, and you guys were talking about this the other day, you can have deeper rosters. But, man, it's really punishing if you have the wrong injuries in MLS.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

And I think even with the money we're spending now, and you guys were talking about this the other day, you can have deeper rosters. But, man, it's really punishing if you have the wrong injuries in MLS.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

I think it's, in all these things, it's our ownership, right? And that's a group of now 30 owners. And that's a really, that's a big pool of people. It's the biggest ownership group in any international football league in the world. And they all need to be aligned. It's like a majority or super majority in order to affect something like this. And

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

I think it's, in all these things, it's our ownership, right? And that's a group of now 30 owners. And that's a really, that's a big pool of people. It's the biggest ownership group in any international football league in the world. And they all need to be aligned. It's like a majority or super majority in order to affect something like this. And

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

I think it's, in all these things, it's our ownership, right? And that's a group of now 30 owners. And that's a really, that's a big pool of people. It's the biggest ownership group in any international football league in the world. And they all need to be aligned. It's like a majority or super majority in order to affect something like this. And

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

it's difficult right you have some people who've been in the league for a long time who say we need to keep the structures in place to protect growth you've got you know some of these new ownership groups that have paid you know 150 300 500 million dollars just to get into the league or like hey i just broke this big check let me do it what i want right and you have people in the middle i think the issue becomes you know when you've kind of been around these conversations is what's the right

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

it's difficult right you have some people who've been in the league for a long time who say we need to keep the structures in place to protect growth you've got you know some of these new ownership groups that have paid you know 150 300 500 million dollars just to get into the league or like hey i just broke this big check let me do it what i want right and you have people in the middle i think the issue becomes you know when you've kind of been around these conversations is what's the right

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

it's difficult right you have some people who've been in the league for a long time who say we need to keep the structures in place to protect growth you've got you know some of these new ownership groups that have paid you know 150 300 500 million dollars just to get into the league or like hey i just broke this big check let me do it what i want right and you have people in the middle i think the issue becomes you know when you've kind of been around these conversations is what's the right

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

sort of like loosening that doesn't totally create an imbalance. Now, look, you're talking to a GM of a team in Los Angeles. I would just make it unlimited, right? Or really raise that ceiling. Because I think the reality is most GMs would tell you, you'd be better off with a team of like,

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

sort of like loosening that doesn't totally create an imbalance. Now, look, you're talking to a GM of a team in Los Angeles. I would just make it unlimited, right? Or really raise that ceiling. Because I think the reality is most GMs would tell you, you'd be better off with a team of like,

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

sort of like loosening that doesn't totally create an imbalance. Now, look, you're talking to a GM of a team in Los Angeles. I would just make it unlimited, right? Or really raise that ceiling. Because I think the reality is most GMs would tell you, you'd be better off with a team of like,

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

18 to 20 guys making one and a half million dollars 100 a team of three guys making 20 and 15 guys making you know six and a half between them right it's absolutely this is a weakest link sport it's a depth sport uh you know i think part of it too is you know 32 years ago the issue was that soccer wasn't popular right we needed the world cup here to to kind of grow the game but everybody younger than you know i'm a little bit younger you guys but everybody younger than us like

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

18 to 20 guys making one and a half million dollars 100 a team of three guys making 20 and 15 guys making you know six and a half between them right it's absolutely this is a weakest link sport it's a depth sport uh you know i think part of it too is you know 32 years ago the issue was that soccer wasn't popular right we needed the world cup here to to kind of grow the game but everybody younger than you know i'm a little bit younger you guys but everybody younger than us like

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

18 to 20 guys making one and a half million dollars 100 a team of three guys making 20 and 15 guys making you know six and a half between them right it's absolutely this is a weakest link sport it's a depth sport uh you know i think part of it too is you know 32 years ago the issue was that soccer wasn't popular right we needed the world cup here to to kind of grow the game but everybody younger than you know i'm a little bit younger you guys but everybody younger than us like

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

They've grown up with soccer on PlayStation and Xbox. You can watch whatever Premier League game you want. Yeah, like RAI in New York when I was growing up, you could watch a random Italian league game. Yeah, the same. Champions League final on a Wednesday, right? But now you can watch whatever you want. And the issue isn't that people aren't watching soccer.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

They've grown up with soccer on PlayStation and Xbox. You can watch whatever Premier League game you want. Yeah, like RAI in New York when I was growing up, you could watch a random Italian league game. Yeah, the same. Champions League final on a Wednesday, right? But now you can watch whatever you want. And the issue isn't that people aren't watching soccer.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

They've grown up with soccer on PlayStation and Xbox. You can watch whatever Premier League game you want. Yeah, like RAI in New York when I was growing up, you could watch a random Italian league game. Yeah, the same. Champions League final on a Wednesday, right? But now you can watch whatever you want. And the issue isn't that people aren't watching soccer.

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

It's that people are watching really, really good soccer, right?

Unfiltered Soccer with Landon Donovan and Tim Howard
LA Galaxy GM Will Kuntz Talks the Financial Side of Soccer

It's that people are watching really, really good soccer, right?