I don’t think it is precisely right that corporate ownership itself is the problem. The Leafs and Raptors have both had long stretches of being contenders under the suits. But of course, with those teams, if they lose, the Board members hear about it. With TFC, nobody cares.
The issue is the corporate ownership in our niche, passion driven sport. That is a deadly combo. It is unfixable - unless the team is sold. I don’t know how that happens without utter commercial failure.
I just read “Scheisse, we're going up”, which is the story of Union Berlin (Berlin's longtime sad sack second team, which lived mostly in the third division unril recently).
https://www.amazon.com/Scheisse-Were...5601099&sr=8-1
The point of the title is that the club has an amazing relationship with its fans, and the fear those fans had that success would wreck what made them special. They cared about the team culture more than the winning. Which, of course, led to winning.
We need some of that here. We were on our way to building it, we understood it (Paul Beirne did anyway) at the beginning, but that is long gone.
I fear I may conclude one day soon that I have to leave TFC to save them.