cozzo
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Who cares about America today?
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Who cares about America today?
'O Zio
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Err...the club.
The US-market has quite clearly been a key part of our plans over the past few years and will no doubt continue to be. For example, why would we include a purpose-built NFL pitch and facilities at great expense if we didn't care about the NFL tie and US market?
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There's no way this should or will happen considering one of our key players is from South Korea
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I suppose the 1 bonus if we sign him is his name isn't fwuckn no-one 
TheHoddleWaddle
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Kin ell. What about his football? Anyone see him play at all?
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I suppose the 1 bonus if we sign him is his name isn't fwuckn no-one
Well spotted!
tiger666
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According to who?
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I see nothing about their football teams merging.
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Not football, but:
.https://www.google.be/amp/s/amp.cnn...rth-south-korea-olympics-flag-intl/index.html
So there is some sporting collaboration.
If the lad is good enough, then sign him up imo. Politics and who sponsors us is all white noise. All the sponsors care about is making money. If the lad is mustard and makes the grade then it makes them money. Especially if the kid becomes.a.national hero.
.https://www.google.be/amp/s/amp.cnn...rth-south-korea-olympics-flag-intl/index.html
So there is some sporting collaboration.
If the lad is good enough, then sign him up imo. Politics and who sponsors us is all white noise. All the sponsors care about is making money. If the lad is mustard and makes the grade then it makes them money. Especially if the kid becomes.a.national hero.
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tiger666
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That's the women's ice hockey team.
Hoddle&Waddle
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My mistake, thought it was the football team.
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As an American myself I disagree with the assessmentthat American companies would be turned off by the inclusion of a North Korean in the squad. We tend to not saddle athletes with the political ideology of their home countries, I think it would be rather inspiring to see he and Son get along. Now, if this guy used his celebrity as a pulpit to spew anti American propaganda and rhetoric then that would be different.
I think most Americans would see him as a victim of an oppressive despotic regime and not a representative of it.
I think most Americans would see him as a victim of an oppressive despotic regime and not a representative of it.
coy-spurs1882
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imagine north and south koreans are supporting the same team
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'O Zio
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Disagree. It's not like just because he's playing in Europe he's free to do what he likes, I'm sure they've put "measures" in place to make sure he does what he's told and doesn't just disapear into the sunset, whether that be holding his family somewhere or whatever. He'll still be very much under the thumb of the regime back home and would presumably be used for propaganda. Would a shirt sponsor, for example, want their corporate logo appearing all over North Korean propaganda posters? Also, and I honestly don't mean this in a derogatory way, but the most people aren't especially interested or clued up on international affairs and just think North Korea=Evil but they don't necessarily know all the intricacies of it.
Rightly or wrongly, being from North Korea has a lot of negative connotations to it and it would at least be a discussion that would be had among potential sponsors, especially given that the fact that we had signed a North Korean player would be all over the news worldwide so our brand would be constantly associated with it. For the casual fans or people who aren't into football we'd forever be "Tottenham? No sorry I don't know them....oh no wait a second, aren't they the guys that signed that North Korean player?" I imagine a lot of companies just wouldn't want the agro of their brand being associated with that.
'O Zio
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Sign him & there will be World war 3
Nobody is saying that. But it will generate a lot of media interest around the world and I don't believe that being known as "the club with that North Korean kid" is particularly high on the list of things Levy and potential sponsors will want our brand to be associated with.
