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MelissaMiranti t1_j5bmyss wrote

Reply to comment by ShitPostQuokkaRome in [Official Source] New York Yankees president Randy Levine joins AC Milan's board of directors by ShitPostQuokkaRome

Like he denigrates their abilities and pushes players away from any good relationship with the club in order to try and get a better deal. It's ugly and awful, and part of why some players don't want to play for the Yankees.

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ShitPostQuokkaRome OP t1_j5btvxm wrote

Holy shit, and AC Milan is famous for making the players stay out of sheer fondness.

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fork_that t1_j5e9eq8 wrote

To be fair, the Americans have a very strict and different sort of salary cap. They need to fight for good deals on players otherwise they‘re screwed for years. EU football is very different. You don’t hear that they need to give away assets to get rid of a player.

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ShitPostQuokkaRome OP t1_j5eb943 wrote

You absolutely can if you're not run by an oil patron.

Bayern is well managed, Juventus is being trialed for cheating on that, Barcelona had to give away several of its best players, RM is well managed, Liverpool had to get some very lucky sales to get to their new golden age, Inter had to sell, etc.

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ilkei t1_j5eyt2k wrote

Not in baseball which is where he comes from. Only has a soft cap where teams have to pay a penalty of 20%-50% of the value of any payroll over the cap.

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