The club of 4,000 million and inflation that does not stop: "The teams are more expensive due to scarcity"

On April 16, 2004, American businessman

purchased the

for an

record $

.

franchise

had never won the competition and had only reached the

, in

.

That is to say, the most expensive sale in the history of the American championship was that of an entity that was not one of the main candidates to lift the title.

It wasn't the

or the

.

Their headquarters were not even in a large market, such as the

.

The reason?

Pure business logic.

Inflation ,

in sports throughout its history, has caused 2022 to be the

.

This week, almost 20 years after the purchase of the Suns, Robert Sarver himself has sold the same franchise, with the same zero rings in his showcases and only a few Finals played in 2021, for

, a new record in the NBA and

.

Along the way, Sarver has entered his pocket

, multiplying by 10 the 400 that he entered in 2004 to the investment group led by

and

the 44.5 that Colangelo paid in 1987.

The same destiny that the Suns followed this year the

and

.

If the

franchise was sold for 4,000 million,

for the Premier League soccer club

, the most expensive ever.

In other words, the sport, no matter which one, is inflating without exception and

in recent months, doubling the amounts that had been paid up to 2022. And it is not going to stop there.

The

, now run by

, are just the

most valuable sports organization in the world, according to

, worth $

.

Very far from other football teams like

.

The Broncos, meanwhile, are

with

, 12th in the NFL.

What does it mean?

That the barrier will soon be broken again and that there is less left to reach the 11-figure ceiling:

.

Most expensive teams 2022

Ishbia, Boehly and Walton, all from the US

But let's look at the three cases that have broken the market.

What do they have in common?

Both

, the billionaire new owner of the Suns, as well as

, owner of Chelsea since May, and

, who since August has been the visible head of the group that leads the Denver Broncos, are Americans and their capital comes from there.

In a world of sports increasingly covered by the money of

, the large corporations of the United States are the ones that this year have been in charge of throwing the house out the window and bringing down figures that seemed inconceivable years ago.

«Lately the interest of investment funds in sport has increased.

Entities that are owned by American, Chinese funds, etc.

», Toni Roca, an expert lawyer in sports law, explains to this newspaper.

"They see what they generate, the business," he says.

store franchise

and his group of investors

, former US Secretary of State, and

, while in the case of Ishbia he had been looking to enter the Owned by an NBA or NFL franchise for years, in fact it has come close to buying the American football

and is still in the running.

According to

, in his account he has

thanks to the profits of

, a mortgage loan company.

But are they only interested in American sports?

Not much less, but there is less equipment and more value.

"Americans are worth more because of scarcity"

«American sports generate more business than European sports, both in

and on television.

With a limited number of teams, the price skyrockets," says

, who insists on the number of possibilities that exist in European football: "In Europe, counting the five major leagues, we have

.

In the United States there are 30 per league,

».

Simple as that.

The more the sport sells, the more its teams are worth.

If the prices of television rights and transfers do not stop rising, so will the value of the entities.

It is

.

And Europe is also paid.

And a lot.

the world are soccer clubs.

If the scarcity in the American leagues is paid for, the scarcity of the most valuable soccer clubs is too.

"The example is the

and

," says Roca.

What if.

The Glazer family has already shown interest in selling Manchester United and the figure, according to experts, could easily exceed that of Chelsea.

The Red Devils are the

most valuable sports organization on the planet: $4.6 billion.

In

there is the circumstance that

and

, first and second in the list of most valuable soccer teams,

respectively, are from their partners, so they do not enter into those cabals.

If they were not, experts estimate their value would be close to that of the NFL's

, the world's most valuable organization at

.

The 10,000, closer every day.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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