Prestwich_Blue
Well-Known Member
This is a question I've asked myself. I assumed they had a plan based on getting back into the top 4 and increasing revenue in the same way the Glazers have done with the rags. If that was the plan it fell at the first hurdle when they gave Dalglish £100m, most of which he pissed away on Carroll, Adam, Downing & Henderson.bluemoondays said:This always confuses me, the new owners spent £300m on the club & pumped in another bunch of cash on players. What do they get out of it?
The alternative theory is that they haven't understood what they're getting into, like Lerner at Villa. I think a few of the US owners saw the revenue coming into the PL but simply didn't realise that they couldn't control costs in the same way they can in US sports. Also the NFL has many safeguards that level the playing field which don't exist in the PL.
It's also possible that they had some sort of collective plan to change the way the PL operates to make it more like the NFL, NHL or NBA which are more profitable for an owner.