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Also, off-topic: the middle east getting involved in football this heavily prevented the bubble bursting for quite a while I would say. Pre-City there was a chance it might happen.

With that said, 10 out of 20 PL owners are American now I think. There's a chance that it will soon be 14, at which point they can bend the competition to their will - create a truly closed shop with no relegation, guaranteed CL for certain teams, potentially a playoff system, etc, and truly Americanise it.

Saudi owning Newcastle is morally grotesque and for me personally killed a lot of my interest in the competition, but American owners in the PL are potentially a graver threat to whatever sporting integrity it has, and a closed shop may lead to the death of many of the smaller, local teams

Like many large sporting brands, the PL is a fairly vile organisation (see the way they allowed the Newcastle takeover), but the competition itself still allows for cool things like Luton being in it with that tiny stadium. That potential should be non-negotiable.