(08-06-2025, 06:29 AM)Del-icious Wrote: That reads as if you think there’s going to be a lot of trading between clubs and money staying within the JA network, that doesn’t seem to be the case with USG and Brighton so far? He explicitly said hearts won’t be a feeder team before joining.
JA are confident that when they buy a player they will at best get a high yield and so confident that they (and their partnered club) will never make a devastating loss. so the teams sit on investments (players) and JA, because of (maybe) contract bonuses or royalties, are effectively sitting on player investment funds.
so im not saying value between the JA network of clubs. but rather the network of JA acquired players on the books at all partnered teams. if these fees/royalties are in contracts with partner clubs when clubs sell then JA has effectively a large network forever building very valuable equity. and that equity is finally realised when a non-JA team buy a player from a JA team and then the player investment fund has a big return.