We don't switch teams like we switch other products, and staff in other businesses are not subject to weird feudal-style ownership arrangements. These are two ways in which football are not, as I said subject to 'subject to all the same market mechanisms'. This is nothing to do with what I wish. These are facts.
I'm not questing Stan's legal rights to his goods and chattels, and his entitlement to do with them as he pleases. Just saying that we don't have to like it.