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Originally Posted by valo403
Two things:
1. The comparison to the Red Sox is flawed if Liverpool fans think it's a plan that will be followed in the EPL. First of all, nothing indicates that Henry is in it for the same reasons. He grew up a Red Sox fan and had that emotional connection that can make the bottom line easier to ignore. He could do great things for Liverpool, or it could be Miami again. That remains to be seen, but either one is rather equally plausible at this point.
2. This is the EPL thread. We don't care about "sabremetrics" or which chubby firstbaseman is better.
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Two things:
First of all Henry only got wind of it because a big Liverpool FC fan told him about it, that person is now our managing director. It won't be another Miami. First of all we already have permission to build a new stadium, which Miami wasn't going to get. 2nd of all, our team generates massive revenue and so he can put some of that back into the club, unlike the Marlins who couldn't probably get 15K in the stands for a random game. So it's not really equally plausible, the stadium is just a cash tree for the owners, I'd say the expectation is similar to Kroenke at Arsenal in many ways.
2. This is the EPL thread. One of the things that NESV does is use sabremetrics to determine value. They've already started to do that, and promote that and there is a book(soccernomics) dedicated to this. Managers like Arsene Wenger and Rafa Benitez are both using some of the methods in identifying players already, NESV wants to use the method even more.
The 1B thing was to illustrate money well spent by NESV and proving the value of there methods(both financially and playing wise) compared to the Yankees and City's of the world. The truth is if you talked to a Reds fan and asked if they wanted an Abromovich like character they'd say no, we want to win but not many were that warm to the idea of a man throwing stupid money around.