OT: CF Montréal: L'Ère de Courtoisie

[Pompeius Magnus]

There's nobody local with actual money and the football savvy required lining up to buy the franchise, that's been painfully obvious for a long time. We have to live with the Saputos, whether we like it or not.

 

[ArtPeur]

The funniest thing to happen with the new direction would be to bring in Jesse Saputo as first player

 

[ThaDevilGirl]

There's nobody local with actual money and the football savvy required lining up to buy the franchise, that's been painfully obvious for a long time. We have to live with the Saputos, whether we like it or not.

Imma be watching the women instead. Screw you Joey

 

[LPHabsFan]

Saputo will not sell his kids' favorite toy.

I agree

Let's see what the Saputo Juniors do first

Why? They're not the owners yet they're going to be making the football decisions despite having zero creditability. They're probably even shit at Football Manager. They're not the ones that set the budget. Aside from the "baseless hope" that they could convince Joey to spend more, do we really think it would be significant enough to go anywhere? This team needs to be willing to spend an extra 8 - 9 million in yearly salary and about 15 - 17 million in transfer fees. I don't think there's a snowballs chance in hell that they'll ever be able to convince him to do that.

There's nobody local with actual money and the football savvy required lining up to buy the franchise, that's been painfully obvious for a long time. We have to live with the Saputos, whether we like it or not.

1 - We don't know that.
2 - You don't need to have an owner to have the football savvy, they just have to have the vision and balls to risk going for it and bringing in people who do have football savvy, just like any other sports owner.
3 - The Saputo's do not have any football or business savvy, otherwise they wouldn't have lost so much money on the team(s) over the years, and they'd actually have won something significant.
4 - Before you mention the cheese business, let's be honest here, they didn't get to where they are by being savvy.
5 - There is no reason whatsoever to think that the family is the only answer for MLS in this city and therefore I will never accept this shitty situation.
6 - Truth be told, I'd also be ok with them selling and the team relocating or dropping to CPL.

 

[TRG]

I agree

Why? They're not the owners yet they're going to be making the football decisions despite having zero creditability. They're probably even shit at Football Manager. They're not the ones that set the budget. Aside from the "baseless hope" that they could convince Joey to spend more, do we really think it would be significant enough to go anywhere? This team needs to be willing to spend an extra 8 - 9 million in yearly salary and about 15 - 17 million in transfer fees. I don't think there's a snowballs chance in hell that they'll ever be able to convince him to do that.

1 - We don't know that.
2 - You don't need to have an owner to have the football savvy, they just have to have the vision and balls to risk going for it and bringing in people who do have football savvy, just like any other sports owner.
3 - The Saputo's do not have any football or business savvy, otherwise they wouldn't have lost so much money on the team(s) over the years, and they'd actually have won something significant.
4 - Before you mention the cheese business, let's be honest here, they didn't get to where they are by being savvy.
5 - There is no reason whatsoever to think that the family is the only answer for MLS in this city and therefore I will never accept this shitty situation.
6 - Truth be told, I'd also be ok with them selling and the team relocating or dropping to CPL.

Lmao @ point 4. Not disagreeing.

The Saputos, even by losing money every year, will get all that back and then some, the day they sell.

For #1, ideally, Péladeau or Molson buys the team. Péladeau has shown in a short time that he's able to run a sports business with the Als. As for Molson, even if the on-ice product hasn't been pretty for most of his tenure, it's not for lack of spending. And he has invested in other areas of the team. Of course, it's one of the most profitable franchises in the NHL so that helps.