Quote Originally Posted by logic View Post
The American sports model is completely different though; more franchise based, approval to buy a franchise dependent on support of other owners, salary caps etc. Add in the inks with colleges around drafting players, it's not necessarily directly comparable with non American sports.

It's rare that you'd find a football manager happy with players being bought for them. Look how much Conte whines at Spurs and they've adopted parts of that model.
Is American football , baseball hit by scandal of dodgy owners ?

Ridsdale and Hammam were dodgy

Tan has made some utterly ridiculous decisions but that's a bit different