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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Small background on the new owners of FCV. You can read the utter and true passion for soccer in the brief bios: [/quote]

Never said they were "passionate" about soccer. That is not a pre-requisite for investing and owning a business, especially for capital investment types. However, what they are passionate about is getting more members and expanding the services to those members so that they get a good ROI.  This will be inclusive of expensive training for youth players, and [i]possibly[/i] IMG style academy / sports agent services. Their press release already talked about expanding in Fairfax and PW counties.

The sports agent approach (if they pursue this) is a paid representative that helps your kid navigate and get 1) a college scholarship; and/or 2) a pro contract (only lucrative for boys, and mostly with foreign clubs more than MLS, but MLS too).  By focusing in on DA and quality ECNL programs they would narrow their pool of players to those most likely to want, pay for, and deserve these type of agent services. In the meantime, they would have expanded their customer base (players and parents and referred friends) to whom they will sell their "sport entertainment and wellness" services too. They are going to expand, of that there is no doubt. Whether they buy some other assets in the elite "NOVA" soccer space or not, maybe, maybe not. [/quote]

Sports agents? They bought a girls soccer club.[/quote]

They built a facility that cost somewhere close to $200M - a slightly larger endeavor than buying a girls soccer club.  That is why when the person critiqued the bios, they sounded like whiney child that cannot compile intelligent thoughts.  The bios cover the entire facility and services not the FCV transaction.  [/quote]

The point is they acquired an asset that they are hoping to receive a ROI from. A soccer club or youth soccer is not their primary focus, memberships are. Look at the disaster Spirit was when the DA player pool was looked at as nothing more than revenue. The St James was smart enough to recognize that DA affiliation will draw in players and thus potential membership. But how much of the bottom line will affect roster decisions down the road?

At some point investor oversight will begin to rear its ugly head when it soon learns how thin the margins are with running a soccer club and that the only real money is found in volume which is certainly a lesson that Spirit taught the region. [/quote]

Lol.  You know so little about business and even less about soccer.[/quote]

Well by all means please demonstrate the business model of this acquisition.  [/quote]

Comparing this to the Spirit situation is where you come off as ignorant here.  So little is known about what is happening with STJ and its soccer ambitions that any comparison like that is a fool's errand.

Neither of us are a party to the transaction, so all you are doing (AGAIN) is guessing.  There are multiple theories possible but as one previous poster said, this acquisition is a drop in the bucket for this facility.  The smart money would be on a guess that this is a small piece of the soccer plan there and what that plan is can only be a guess unless you expect us to believe you are advising the STJ leadership.  Either way, unless this all happens very quickly, it likely won't affect most of the children represented by the parents here.  So again, why do you care?

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Or it is just the only piece of the soccer plan. It is a gym after all. This purchase may be nothing more than offering a smoothie bar and may garner no more attention than that and that is the concern. It is a small piece and not really a focus of the St James. [/quote]

Head in the sand. Love it. Hammer to fall.[/quote]

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