Garl
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- Oct 7, 2006
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You are living in a make-believe world and that is where the problems come.Good point.
It is obvious the KHL strategy is to make their clubs profitable. They just go step by step. I would give another argument to yours - the clubs can sign a sponsorship contract with a betting company. So, a source of non-government money.
I do not know if our colleagues realise but being profitable with a budget of 40 million is different than with 10 or 5 million budget.
I also do not know if people realise what is happening if speaking about European hockey. Their countries are doing everything to make their economics irrelevant. And it, as everything, will affect the entertaiment industry, so hockey, and general standard of living. The USA is on that way as well.
Who told you that there is a "strategy to make clubs profitable"? You just made it up
Betting companies are not going to invest much, they exist to make profit for their owners, not to waste money.
Budget is irrelevant, KHL teams would be far from profitable even with 4 million budget. Russians just dont have the needed amount of people who can spend on hockey products. The consumers must be subsidized by the state or they cant afford it. People in Russia are poor compared even to Eastern Europeans.
Last part is a journey to the bottom of make-believe world, an esoteric-geopolitical one. Kinda shows the source of delusions.
What KHL must do is cut their budget at least 10 times via salary cap. If Radulov and Shipachyov dont like their salaries they can go and play in AHL. At least, this way KHL will stop being a giant waste of money. People would continue to come it is not like they watch the league because of "stars", I mean, who are those? Sharov and Jeremy Roy?