I want zico to become fifa president, AIFF will have tuff time plus zico will make sure India has a path and single league will emerge. I want fifa to plan and execute instead of AIFF execution.
It is basically that. Player contracts are payed for by the league EXCEPT for the marquees... the team pays the salary of the marquee (majority anyway, so Sebastian Giovinco is on a $7 million contract, ~$400,000 is payed for by MLS and the other ~$6,600,000 is payed by his team, Toronto FC). The league does allow freedom to teams, they can select their sponsors, their local broadcast deals (this should happen in India) etc.
Yes, there are negatives like allocation of players which can lead to a player going somewhere they don't want to go to or trades that a player does not have much say in but that is more a problem with MLS being scared of "free agency" than the ownership structure.
In terms of the teams... let me put it like this. The Seattle Sounders are ran by three owners and if all three left and the team died but someone in a new soccer league wanted to make the Seattle Sounders then they would need to buy the trademark from MLS as MLS technically owns the name and brand. In India, that would be the same as Kerala Blasters owners leaving and the team dying but someone wanted to start an I-League team of that name... they would need to by the name and brand from IMG-Reliance.
Now, is that something Bengaluru FC, East Bengal, or Mohun Bagan agree to? I don't think so
I think that is agreeable and something natural that IMG-REL having built a brand will insist on.
So basically any new teams who wanna be part of the new ISL league will have to renew franchise license each year. The franchise will have the freedom of negotiating their own sponsorship with ticket revenue (10%) going to the Franchises and 90% going to IMG-REL.
10% to the team would kill the franchise. I don't know what it should be (need info on how much ticket revenue is currently) but 10% would surely be severely low.
I am not sure if those 3 clubs would agree. Literally, East Bengal and Mohun Bagan would be owned by IMG-Reliance, same with Bengaluru FC. That is why the New York Cosmos (Pele's old team in the 80s) refused to come to MLS, they did not want to be owned by the league.
Although nothing about the ISL has shown me that is how it would happen anyway as I don't think that is the ownership structure.
Going back to foreigners, how would people feel if the following players were in the ISL: John Johnson, Curtis Osano, Abdelhamid Shabana, Cristian Lagos (fit), Eurípedes Amoreirinha, Hugo Machado, Calum Angus, Gonzalo Honojal, and Arturo Navarro.
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@Maddie, Zico had pulled out.
http://m.ibnlive.com/footballnext/news/zico-pulls-out-of-fifa-presidential-bid-1156983.html
So basically any new teams who wanna be part of the new ISL league will have to renew franchise license each year. The franchise will have the freedom of negotiating their own sponsorship with ticket revenue (10%) going to the Franchises and 90% going to IMG-REL.