blue-shifted
Banned
So. 50+1
How do you implement it to a club with existing shareholders?
I agree with those saying this would be more about controlling voting rights than ownership of shares ... however there are huge practical and legal difficulties
This ESL project, and project big picture before it was about control as much as money. How can owners of a private business be compelled to give up voting rights? By what mechanism?
What would constitute a major decision which fan shareholders need to get involved with?
What about commercially sensitive info? How can this be kept secret when there are fan shareholders on board?
How do fans select the fan shareholders on the board?
Some clubs are publicly listed and some are not, would this make a difference?
Some of these issues are surmountable, and of course have been done elsewhere, but would need serious consideration and debate. To me it always comes down to how do you reverse engineer this? How do you force someone to give up their voting power who already has it? If it's easy, why hasn't this happened to RB Leipzig?
I would love to see it happen. But for it to happen, football needs to work through these issues. We can't just say we want it to happen and it will happen.
How do you implement it to a club with existing shareholders?
I agree with those saying this would be more about controlling voting rights than ownership of shares ... however there are huge practical and legal difficulties
This ESL project, and project big picture before it was about control as much as money. How can owners of a private business be compelled to give up voting rights? By what mechanism?
What would constitute a major decision which fan shareholders need to get involved with?
What about commercially sensitive info? How can this be kept secret when there are fan shareholders on board?
How do fans select the fan shareholders on the board?
Some clubs are publicly listed and some are not, would this make a difference?
Some of these issues are surmountable, and of course have been done elsewhere, but would need serious consideration and debate. To me it always comes down to how do you reverse engineer this? How do you force someone to give up their voting power who already has it? If it's easy, why hasn't this happened to RB Leipzig?
I would love to see it happen. But for it to happen, football needs to work through these issues. We can't just say we want it to happen and it will happen.