There were talks last year about US company Polygon being interested in Newcastle. Reading’s chairman John Madjeski has publicly mentioned that his club is for sale. Will Dubai International Capital divert their attention to a club such as Arsenal?
In this week’s The Game podcast from The Times (check out the paper’s redesigned web site, by the way), football expert Gabriele Marcotti raised a very interesting point when he mentioned that the Premier League is heading to a NFL system where it’s a closed-door policy of 20 teams with revenue sharing occuring. Marcotti raises a extremely valid point.
On the Premiership Community message boards via EPL Talk, many of the American fans of Premiership clubs have been discussing the comparisons between the NFL and EPL. I’ve stayed out of the debate up until this point because I honestly don’t care about the NFL one iota. But from a business perspective, there is a lot to admire.
If this scenario did happen in a few years, I predict the FA Cup would become even more meaningless than it is now for many Premiership clubs. The Premier League clubs wouldn’t feel they should stoop so low to play with the “paupers” in the lower leagues, and would continue to follow Arsenal’s blueprint of developing their youth players in these lesser tournaments.
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