Are 12 American owners a serious threat to our game ?

BrianW said:
Anyone who doesn't like modern football and all the money in it needs to blame:

1. Those clubs who insisted on keeping home gate money for themselves instead of sharing it.
2. Those clubs who grabbed the lion's share of TV money, leaving the rest with scraps.
3. Those clubs who pushed for and got the Premier League, a monument for unabated greed.

By making top-level football much more profitable, they put out (in effect) a big sign that said 'Capitalists, come get me. You can make big bucks here.'

Once that genie was out of the bottle going back was impossible, short of a total collapse.

It's worth remembering that 'traditional' football clubs were run on buttons. They were typically owned by local 'businessmen' more interested in the prestige of sitting in the Directors' Box than in making money. Indeed, for many years it was forbidden for Directors to be paid at all. Nottingham Forest was, for many years, an actual club, with members and a Committee, not even a Limited Company.

That is no more coming back than drainpipe trousers, trolleybuses and peacetime conscription. It is gone forever.
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Bang on... and one of those clubs covered in points 1 to 3 was.... Arsenal!
 
Rochdale Blue said:
Maybe the yanks should trademark the name 'Woolwich Arsenal' and make loads of money, although that didn't workout to well for scrawny neck down the M62.
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Woolwich Nomad's would be a better term, as without Henry Norris bankrolling them and moving them into Spurs territory they would have folded.
And I'm still to find a Gooner who can tell me their top scorer in their wonderful promotion season
 
HumbledGooner said:
Sounds like something a woke hipster say. You could get a job as a writer at the Gaurdian by suggesting Americans are bad for football and the likes of Bin Salman are its saviours.

Well done. Have a free latte, ill make a donation to Shameema Begum in your name
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Are you having a laugh? The fucking Guardian is the most anti-Emirati rag in the pressworld.
 
With the confirmed purchase of Everton by The Friedkin Group, the Premier League is now 50% owned (or majority owned) by our friends across the pond.

With Sheffield Utd announcing new American ownership today, the Championship top three are all American owned.

In May, it's highly likely that two non-American owned clubs will be relegated from the Premier League and if they are replaced by any two of Blades, Lids or Burnley, they have the magic number of 12 EPL clubs American owned.

Game changing for English football and happening in plain sight.

Hell yeah.
 
Blue Mist said:
This is why I want a govt appointed regulator.
No other reason as they are shit at overseeing everything else.
I just hope that when the yanks start with
a) no relegation
b) salary caps
c) agreement to have x number of games in yankland the regulator steps in.

Fear the worst and don't celebrate a compromise.
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It's coming mate, straight through the front door.
 
Dodge said:
With the confirmed purchase of Everton by The Friedkin Group, the Premier League is now 50% owned (or majority owned) by our friends across the pond.

With Sheffield Utd announcing new American ownership today, the Championship top three are all American owned.

In May, it's highly likely that two non-American owned clubs will be relegated from the Premier League and if they are replaced by any two of Blades, Lids or Burnley, they have the magic number of 12 EPL clubs American owned.

Game changing for English football and happening in plain sight.

Hell yeah.
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Said this year's ago,part of my Football will eat itself mantra.; )
 
Blue Mist said:
This is why I want a govt appointed regulator.
No other reason as they are shit at overseeing everything else.
I just hope that when the yanks start with
a) no relegation
b) salary caps
c) agreement to have x number of games in yankland the regulator steps in.

Fear the worst and don't celebrate a compromise.
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All those non American owned clubs that voted against an independent regulator are sleep walking to disaster. Don’t they have any sense of danger?
 
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