Why multi-club ownership poses a huge threat to football's future
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2024
- Multi-club ownership has been thrust into the limelight with Jim Ratcliffe, who owns Nice, and his fresh attempts to acquire Manchester United. Has a dangerous can of worms been opened and is there a scenario where four or five major conglomerates end up owning all of football? This is a clip taken from a two-part podcast special on the future of football...
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Now it's suddenly an issue despite the city owners owning lots of clubs
It just shows you how much fear the man united takeover strikes into people. They knew the 90s and 2000s was a living hell for them, it will soon begin again, they are mortified 🤣🤣🤣
Because Chelsea are interested in buying one. Rules change when Chelsea does something. Everyone knows that bias.
NOT ONLY THAT! About 80 percent of clubs in the big leagues are ALREADY having strong mutual relationships or multi-ownership models. The Premier League let the Glazers steal the club in front of the whole world and suck it dry for all those years because it was in every other club's advantage. Meanwhile City and Chelsea rose from nothig and became decently successful football clubs. It's revenge-time I guess! YALLAH QATAR! F@@@ OFF THE GLAZERS!
@@yash4296 who are Chelsea trying to buy?
TBF the teams City have bought are either in completely different markets or will not be in a position to compete with them in Europe for a very long time. Whole multi club ownership thing stinks but once Uefa fumbled the RedBull case there is probably no way to stop it.
City group literally owns more than 5 clubs
Thanks for confirming they literally own 5 clubs just in case some people were thinking they only metaphorically own 5 clubs
@@highnoon7097 thank YOU for that long, completely unnecessary comment! Keep up the work
@@haimainjauo242 wow you consider a single sentence to be a long comment? You must be thicker than two short planks son. Good luck with your career as a bin man.
How many from UEFA tho?
18 clubs
Liverpool, Leeds and United (currently) have ownership with investments in other sports teams globally (there are many other examples in the PL I'm sure) Why's this suddenly under the spotlight?
What about the threat of letting crooks buy institutions on debt that then they place on it while they run away with 6 billion profit after letting it decay for 17 years
My local club Melbourne Heart got bought out by CFG (now Melbourne City), the club were growing broke and have achieved stuff that would otherwise have not been possible, CFG have brought expertise and facilities and now the club are consistenly producing australian talent that can transition to europe although it hasn't translated to a big fanbase yet, but thats nore to do with the sporting landscape in australia
I always found this strange that one entity can own or run multiple teams across different leagues. Just seems like one of those really obvious things that should not be allowed to happen…. But hey ho. We shall muddle on through…. ✌️
Tbf how many billionaires are there in the world, it was always bound to happen with how much football teams are all worth these days
The answer will depend on Man utd new owner..If Qatar wins UEFA will change rules..People forget Al Khalefi sits on UEFA board and its no secret this will b allowed if qatar wins Man Utd bid
Bingo! It's all about Man Utd being turned into a sportswashing club - which will happen.
Oh yes because Jim Ratcliffe doesn’t also own other teams in Europe does he?
Yup, oil money corruption
PSG?
No one does anything this size wothout approval of the qatar gouvernement
@@BigPurp9 Radcliffe has no power in UEFA.He can buy United but UEFA wont change rules with him.He has no power on UEFA
It's digraceful what City Football Group have done. Literally turning clubs in other countries into City USA, City Australia having to encorporate their club colours in their badge and kits.
It’s not that complicated, there should be rules in place to prevent any single organization or individual from owning more than 2-3 clubs
Look at tony bloom with brighton and union, i think it can work
Sport Republic are making a cracking job of it so far 😂
Think 10 years from now and take this trend to its logical end point....the only teams competing at the top of their domestic leagues and in European competitions will be members of large conglomerates of football clubs.
Uefa will be powerless and have essentially sanctioned the creation of a super league by another name. It's going to be absolutely awful for the vast majority of fans and anyone with a respect for football history and sporting ideals, not to mention the moral and ethical dilemmas posed by oligarchs and authoritarian governments controlling the game.
Its a sickening thought and I believe it'll utterly ruin the game in my lifetime. I just hope some common sense restrictions are imposed, and soon.
Love to see how the automatically created captions say: "Hurts of Berlin" in 0:09:51 :D
Greetings from Germany.
Ratcliffe/Ineos also own Lausanne football club in Switzerland, this always seems to be forgotten.They also have a partner arrangement with Racing Club Abidjan in Africa. The ideal principles being spoken about here are unrealistic in the context of where we are today as a society and economically in Europe/the world. It seems patronizing to speak in the name of what "fans" might wish for too. There will be a wide range of expectations and values linked to being a club fan, not everyone will adhere to principles of western ethics over the simple expectation of winning and competing at the highest level - depending on who you support. Surely the only key rule should be that clubs owned by the same organisation cannot compete in the same competition. For obvious reasons. This would ensure that the only incentive for multi club ownership would be for ressource sharing and creating a training academy across the teams, something I find actually quite positive. What is so difficult about making that rule and adhering to it? Give the problem to the prospective owners, not the football authorities. It should also be forbidden to have individuals who are, or represent team owners, involved within any sporting authority.
what would the benfis of this be anyway for both the ckubs involved, the bigger and smaller club
I hate the multi-club model. Hopefully, this will never be an issue at my Club.
Worse case scenario is Glazers stay , they give ETH 150 mill max this summer, and spend £10m on improving united aesthetically ie a lick of paint with not seat expansion
Why allowing countries like Qatar or Saudi to buy clubs is destroying football
How is this a gulf state issue? What current examples are there of gulf states owning multiple top clubs or clubs of similar stature?
This video brushes on multiple situations where this is an issue and none of them relate to gulf states. It also highlights that more than 80 clubs in Europe's major leagues are in a system of this nature. AND it mentions thar this has been ongoing for *decades*.
So to just peg this up as a gulf state issue is the type of lazy islamaphobia that both puts the conversation out of focus, so we'll never find a real solution, and detracts from the real gulf state ownership issues.
Do better
It gets me every time a British journalist says clubs are supposed to be for the local communities, but within 5 minutes praises the PL for its international reach. You can only seek international fame and money for so long before you change the nature of what the fan community really means.
The multi club model is an extension of this global outreach in a way that makes fiscal sense. Why load all that global expenditure on just one club when you can divide it amongst multiple ones.
As long as there are clear rules to avoid collusion say no two clubs in the same country or max two clubs in any Fifa conference (UEFA/ CONCACAF etc) you should be fine. This will also help clubs in more diverse places find money for football.
Capitalism
City group does this, red bull does this but Manchester United does it and we start to say it’s an issue….
And how many clubs have direct feeder clubs in the leagues below… dortmund b Barca b Villarreal b to name just a few
Manchester City???? City Football Group??? Just asking for a friend...
That City group will, if they have not already started, exploit the problem of determining the fair value of players for transfers.
A talented player that's been hoovered up in a league without a salary cap or strong financial regulations can be sold within the 'City' group for pennies on the dollar. Man City records a purchase at a price thats been drastically depressed and essentially funded it from one of their sister clubs.
EVERYTHING to do with BOEHLY EGHBALI unstable
Why shouldnt united have a feeder club in nice....the problem is because its united...
Like Football polygamy.
I sense huge scripting (ie, rigging) in football if things continue down this path... American sports style scripting... Football's integrity is done!
Just cost of doing business. If you want to keep all your local charm then stay out of my tv. Global viewers don't care what the club means to you and bottom line is, it's entertainment
yawn. Next time on the athletic "why money is bad"
If the Athletic starts pushing agendas like some sports channels ild unsubscribe promptly. Why is United’s different when this has been going on for over 20+ years. This reeks of one of those propaganda against the Qatari
Let the world burn because we can’t be unfair to united fans
@@mattaddison4794Many Manure fans unironically believe this.
Oh look now this is an issue the second united is to be sold 💀
Why is it a prospective owner of united in the pic, and not man city or Newcastle owners?
As they are under different confederations aren't they? so unless it it is the CWC they wont play each other