Great comment.This makes more sense then the Hanni rumour.
I'm sure MLSE recognizes Atlanta as a success model moving forward. After all, we forget TFC is only a 10 year old club with limited experience
MLSE has capital many South American and even some European teams don't have.
They should be using capital as good debt to buy assets. This is what every top team does and TFC should be able to do it on a micro level scale like Atlanta.
ie:
Stage 1 ) Buy a top young player for 12-15 million (this is your downpayment)
Stage 2) Pay him 2-3 million per season on a 3 year controlled contract (6-9 million total)
Stage 3 ) Sell him in year 3 or 4 for 21-25 million (6-9 million in asset appreciation)
The appreciation of the asset pays off the players salary. You basically get the player for free over the 3 years you have him.
Obviously that's a dream scenario and can't be replicated constantly at scale, but if you target those players consistently you will win often and at the very least we won't come away with low valued assets in there 30's (Giovinco, Bradley)
TFC spent a 100 million on Giovinco, Bradley, Defoe/Altidore and they really have nothing to sell. They literally burned a 100 million for us (god love them)
MLS looks like it's going to be a buying/selling league. United States does a better job then anyone at depicting their streets are made out of gold. Players want to be here. We should be using debt as leverage and use perception of our amazing city to target these young 22-24 year old South American and African kids to make a profit on them. Price is perception of the buyer and players will choose us over Saudi Arabia and China imo. If they want to be finacialy efficient we can probably get them cheaper then some other leagues