There's a broader qiestion to be asked too, regarding the all-Americam buzz-word toting style of American ownership.
Liverpool's signings and re-signings are looking increasingly ill-considered, only nobody in the media wants to say the emperor has no clothes. The club is coming apart at the seams and resorting to spouting clichés about magical nights and the power of the kop.
Chelsea are teetering on becoming a basket case.Top-heavy with players, telling the world they are pushing the envelope when a dog with a mallet up its arse could tell you they are being facilitated in bending (if not breaking) the rules by an acquiescent governing body.
Manchester United (who spout even more clichés than Liverpool) are looking more and more like becoming an ultra-expensive folly. How they cope with Champions League football next season and the progress they makes as a club could very possibly be eventually pivotal to their survival, let alone anything else.
Despite all the quadruple talk and how that has gone up in smoke, Arsenal are doing well at the moment, in fairness, but they have won nothing yet and you wouldn't bet on them creating a dynasty if/when they eventually do. (And that's ignoring how they've spunked £1bn and devolved into relying on neanderthal tactics).
Four "grand old instititions" of English football... Three of them not looking especially healthy. The fourth showing all the signs of a club that is flattering to decieve.
Yaw 'Murica.
All good points and now I can't get the image of that poor dog out of my head ...
A recent exploration of club ownership models presented on The Athletic made interesting , if frustrating , listening . The discussion looked at the perfect investors for a football club
( squad and youth investment , stadium upgrades , good training facilities , lively social media engagement , long term strategies and local community investments) and studiously avoided mentioning City , the only club to tick all the boxes and bring in the trophies. We were conspicuously absent for the whole broadcast except for the Liverpool correspondent stating more or less that the Oil Clubs had sold their souls to the devil ...and all true fans should walk away .
An in-depth analysis of FSG at Liverpool suggested they'd recently rejected multi club ownership as too risky , given that the syndicate would be looking to maximise profit when they trade the club in the market in the not too distant future ( not that they had much interest last time ).
Manure were held up as problematic mainly because Scruffy Jim is faking being a lifelong supporter and that it was a shame BSkyB didn't buy the club back in the day . Not one mention of the cartel and the implications of half the PL now being in the hands of Americans , who , from where I sit , are generally as amoral and ruthless as anyone from the Middle East .
This type of so called thoughtful journalism is almost worse than the click bait mob, as it masks it's inherent biases behind what sounds to be sound analysis but completely ignoring the owners of best club side in England for a decade . A cursory glance at our finances would have revealed that we are now a self sustaining entity after necessarily pump priming after the take over , a strategy lauded in the discussion when talking about Brighton because he's an old school local boy made good .
