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Basically they're trying to copy what RSL and KC have been doing instead of trying to keep up with LA and Seattle.
Like throwing around the term "moneyball," talking about "copying KC and RSL" is a fig leaf for being cheap, and should be rightly regarded by anyone with any common sense at complete horseshit.
Kansas City and RSL have a critical difference from Red Bull.
Both teams have local ownership that comes from and understands the community they represent. There's not a disconnect between fans and owners because the owners see themselves as accountable to the fans and to the community. Owners hire executives who know how to speak to and sell soccer to locals. This generates a tremendous amount of goodwill for the ownership - goodwill that DOES NOT EXIST for the high-handed, Austria-based Red Bull ownership.
The only reason that KC and RSL are cited is because they have successfully built good teams on a lower budget than other teams, but the idea that Red Bull can claim to be able to copy just the efficiency of those two teams without making any other changes to its organizational culture is cherry-picking at its worst. I would say it also mirrors the arrogance of Red Bull, except I think Red Bull is selling us a bunch of bullshit - they know perfectly well that they chances of being able to implement an entirely new philosophy and have league leading success is close to nil. They're just trying to skimp on expenses to run this team, but are telling placating lies to us to keep the fan revolts to a minimum.