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Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St
Nothing goes on forever, even in football (ask fans of Blackpool, Charlton, Coventry, Rovers, and that former 'big' club from Glasgow).
The PL is basically funded by TV. And the media moguls will go where they can get a bigger and bigger audience.
At the moment, they are happy to sell a product that happens to be based in England but, in terms of personalities, is global.
But maybe the 'fans' amongst China's 1.3 billion (and/or a similar number in India) will soon want to watch something that means something more to them. At the moment it's the global stars at the ends of their careers who are heading out east. But pretty soon it'll be the first choice for agents and their human assets.
The global corporate boys will follow the money and Mancunians may have to resign themselves to having to pay to watch 'their' team on a screen playing in China / India / America.
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None of those clubs you mention were ever big clubs they just hung on to the coat tails for their 15 minutes of fame. And the Big Club from Glasgow shows exactly what happens when you let "dodgy" owners loose on a club. Neither "Big" clubs from Glasgow are likely to do much because like many of the Big Clubs in Europe outwith the big 5, they no longer compete on ability as clubs in the big leagues buy up all the players whether they need them or not.
We have been saying for years the big money will end but there is no sign of it and the aged players ending their careers abroad was tried in the US in the late 70s and it is still getting nowhere. The same will happen to the game in India and China and the EPL will keep rolling on because the hype will keep going world wide.
We might even get to the stage where all EPL games are shown live including on a Saturday as happens abroad and that will hit EFL gates as well. We can kid ourselves on that it will end sometime and equality will be restored to football but I doubt it will be in our lifetime. If anything it might evolve into a European League and take the money with it and we can say they should get on with it as people will lose interest but it's not the people who go to games they care about, it's the armchair fans and the sponsors.