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Published · transcript-backedDavid Rosenthal: belief
24 Mar 2025 Acquired Indian Premier League Cricket
“Ben, you were mentioning teams running in the red in the English Premier League. This is (I think) beyond just overpaying for players.”
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- Speaker
- David Rosenthal
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 24 Mar 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Indian Premier League Cricket
Transcript context
…Coming out of the 90s, it’s starting to change already here in the mid-2000s. It’s essentially an impoverished nation with a very thin slice of billionaires. Yup. As you’re setting up these franchises, you need to make them no-brainer investments for whoever makes them, and you can’t have this have and have not dynamic. The first order of business, which is the easiest one, is stadiums. Ben, you were mentioning teams running in the red in the English Premier League. This is (I think) beyond just overpaying for players. The biggest problem in the English Premier League is a lot of teams own their stadiums and then the debt payments that you have to make on these stadiums are just crippling. This is soccer for anyone who’s not a Premier League fan.…
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