Teams assign scouts and coaches names and phone numbers of the players (and their agents) they want to sign and they hit the ground calling. They rank them as they would their draft board and go down the list until they get agreements. Unlike what they proclaim to do in the draft, this usually goes by position because they need certain numbers at each position for training camp practices..They know Kluwe. They've known him for a long time. They know he's outspoken.".

And there's also of course the sense, because at least one thing that tends to happen in Britain, is that the clubs don't literally leave the suburb they play in, because it's such a small country, that by having US owners, there'll be some measure of the connection, the very positive, powerful connection between Old Trafford and the local populace. That would be severed and gone forever. So again, you can say when those forces of international capital come in, whether it's Russell Crowe's Hollywood money