>>16784476I agree with you in the point that you can’t force an employee to stay with a company. The issue I have is this consolidation of talent between two companies in that effectively shuts everyone else out.
Tony Khan is known for vastly overpaying for talent over their perceived market value, this is known since the Khan’s are known to do the exact same thing with free agency talent in the NFL. Nobody sees this as a bad thing from the talent perspective, but if you create an environment where you are offering independent (in this context NJPW, NOAH, TNA, etc) talent 2-3x what they were being offered by their previous employer, the only players who are going to be able to match that are the company funded by a billionaire, or the company that a subsidiary of a multi-billion dollar company, everyone else is effectively locked out.
