“We count on our academy to continue to bring up players who can fill roles and become those top players in the future. So we’re not going to change that strategy. But I have told Ernst, and you’ve heard us say it before, if we need more pieces, they are available. The one thing I think the fans need to know is when Ernst came to us and said, this strategy, to really work, requires us to put everything in one place: our first team, our second team, our academy, our staff, our school – that’s a $75 million expense. And we said, if that’s what it takes, then we’re going to do that, and that’s what we’re building outside. So this is not a question of we have a strategy and we aren’t willing to fund it. This is, we have a different strategy, and it’s not a conventional strategy. It’s not the easiest strategy to execute, and it’s not the flashiest strategy, but when we brought Ernst aboard, that was the strategy we wanted to bet on.”
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