Thinking it over a bit more, and getting into the likely commercial mechanics of the idea - in my view it’s even more of a nonsense than it might first have appeared.
I’d say it’s fair to assume the best teams’ players will pack out these North and South teams. This means it’s the best teams that will therefore need to be paid the greatest amount to accept the risk of releasing their players to play in one off games outside of their Club responsibilities.
This would result in the most successful teams being further financially rewarded for holding the best players, and the rest of the league being paid less for having fewer if any players involved.
This is the kind of thinking that generally struggles to get any support over here, as it would be viewed as further exacerbating the widening chasm between the clubs already at the top, and those at the bottom.
In this context, I’d imagine this would hit a similar level of resistance as the super league.
Further supporting the idea that there would be a far more limited market than Boehly anticipates for any competition based on these arbitrary North/South teams.
He assumes the PL is the brand like the MLS is in the US, whereas in English football (as in all European football) the key brands are the teams.
Remove them, and you remove a lot of the appeal - and therefore a significant chunk of the potential market.
