Yes. I don’t mind which way it happens. I just don’t want us in a league with cheating, nation state sportswashers.
The only way that is ever going to happen is if we ever get rid of the rich businessmen owning clubs. As fans, we see the Sportswashers for what they are. Businessmen just see them as a way to make money. Nation states willing to pay huge transfer fees and to promote the Sport in which their teams play is their wet dream.
Just look at how the valuation of clubs has skyrocketed since the likes of Abramovich, Mansoor, QSI and the Saudi PIF have started pouring billions into the game.
The ESL wasn't some noble project to level the playing field and improve the Sport. It is all about Billionaires distorting the game to guarantee themselves tens of billions of pounds.
From the Athletic
John W Henry and Joel Glazer worked closely together on the plans for Project Big Picture. Glazer visited Henry’s home near Boston to talk about the idea as early as 2017. They speak on the phone and email each other. Henry would even communicate with Woodward sometimes. This happens because the owners share motivations. It is unimaginable that when each of these billionaires wake up in the morning, the first thing they think about is Liverpool or United. Four years Liverpool's owners and United's owners were plotting to carve up the game. Strangely enough after the backlash from the fans over the ESL they now want to sell up.
UEFA and FIFA are quite obviously corrupt and not fit for purpose. The thing is the businessmen have already had a chance to correct things. The Premier League was formed by the big clubs and has proven to be every bit as bad as the Football League. Yet some posters want to hand the game over to the likes of Perez, Glazer, Henry and the now disgraced Agnelli.
Reform of the game needs to come from the fans groups, not the parasites who have been feeding off the game for decades.
