Quote Originally Posted by slack_pie View Post
The bros are bit like value investors but in football rather than the stock market. They see a player whose market value seems to be below their actual value for whatever reason, give them a platform to shine, and then sell them on for their actual value, or even at a premium. Buy low, sell high, repeat. In the process, the club benefits from quality players coming and going and hopefully climbs up the pyramid slowly but surely.

Every decision is about extracting maximum value, whether that's recruitment or tactics.
That's a good analogy. Of course, most retail investors prefer to YOLO into meme stocks for an outside chance of amazing returns at very high risk, which is what we see reflected in a lot of comments here. Having said that, Hoppie makes a good point about the ex-dividend date as well