Captain Caveman
Platinum Member
Football is just all about money. The bright ones are the players, I mean, which idiot wouldn't take millions in wages when offered. The idiots are those daft enough to fund the game by buying the tickets, club shirts, Sky Sports subscription etc..Manchester Utd and Liverpool are both on the market and both being sold off by their American owners.
Are they getting out at the top of the market ?
Or are the Americans no longer able to compete with the Arab money now flooding into the game ?
The Glazers are rightly despised in Manchester but the FSG were generally popular on Merseyside. Both have sporting interests in the US.
The top club in the UK is Manchester City and their oil money owners have bottomless pockets. Newcastle United have just been bought by the saudi govt as well. Neither club can stand much scrutiny.
American owners buy clubs to extract money not pump it into the club. they wont go into spending wars with rich arabs.
An exception to this might be the character who bought Chelsea. Ted Boehly is throwing money around like a lottery winner to absolutely no effect.
I would not be sorry to see the bottom fall out of the football market.
The game is bloated and corrupt beyond measure. It needs bringing back to earth.