After spending about 250 million, or $320 million at current exchange rates, last year on a plethora of players led by two of soccer's biggest names, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kak?it appeared as if Real's appetite would have been satiated.
"The striking position is one that we don't have a plethora of players for," Levein explained.
In most naturally occurring monopoly or oligopoly markets, the scale benefits of production make it uninteresting to have a plethora of players.
"Gordon Schildenfeld has had a great season with PAOK Salonika and will definitely start at the back, while a plethora of players, led by Milan Badelj and Mateo Kovacic, can stand in for Modric," he said.
The English trio of John Terry, Frank Lampard and Ashley Cole, together with Didier Drogba, are among the plethora of senior players kicking against the dying of their light.
The Yankees are happy with themselves for the plethora of new players they are importing to improve upon the last lot, which merely won four World Series in the last six years.
Satirical title cards introduce us to a plethora of key players including Morfydd Clark's Frederica Vernon, Susan's "eligible daughter"; Tom Bennett's Sir James Martin, "her unintended" and "a bit of a rattle"; and Xavier Samuel's dashing Reginald DeCourcy, Charles's handsome brother-in-law and the new focus of Lady Susan's schemes.
Former commissioner David Stern was outspoken in his desire to see an NBA as global entity, and under his tenure – through increased outreach and the plethora of international players who've made their mark in the league — the international draw of the NBA has grown leaps and bounds.
The Heat, the N.B.A.'s defending champions, won 27 consecutive games at one point in the regular season and reached the finals for the third straight year with the familiar assortment of furious dunks and heady passes by LeBron James, some deft plays from Dwyane Wade, some strong perimeter offense from Bosh and plenty of 3-pointers from a plethora of role players, including Ray Allen.
As we noted when OnePageCRM raised an earlier $749,000 funding round, the CRM market is a very crowded one, from giants like Salesforce to a plethora of smaller players and startups (seriously, I can barely keep track of these things).
On that note, Heinrichs is positioning Freska, which I understand recently closed a round of undisclosed funding, as a buyer not a seller, with more consolidation expected amongst a plethora of local players in the on-demand cleaning space.
