Are Premier League games heading to the U.S?
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2024
- Ayo is joined by the Athletic’s Matt Slater and Adam Crafton following on from Adam’s recent piece detailing why European football matches might finally be coming to the U.S..
FIFA seem to be stepping back in the battle to stop competitive games being taken abroad. So, could we one day see the Premier League or La Liga decided in America?
With recent FFP rules being good cause for pre-season tours, will it do any long term damage on fans here in the U.K.?
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:12 The appetite for European football in the U.S.
00:04:55 FIFA & Relevant Sports legal battle
00:12:50 How the PL feels about playing in America
00:21:24 American sports being played in around the world
00:26:55 Ticket sales for pre-season games
00:28:23 The financial benefits of touring the USA
00:33:51 The last time the PL tried to break the U.S.
00:40:32 Is it a blow to authentic fans?
00:44:10 Crazy ticket prices
00:48:25 Final comments
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What an absolute slap in the face this would be to local fans. The day this happens is the beginning of the end of football in my eyes
that day was LOOOOONG ago
Football ended over 150 years ago when players started to be paid.
They're not talking about Wicombe Wonderers and the like, they're talking about global teams with global fan bases, it's fair enough to play games aboard where possible, it's not just local match receipts paying the bills. If you want to watch local football there will still be plenty of local teams to follow, go and watch Tranmere Rovers or something
Imagine your team is one game away from winning the prem and you have a season ticket but wait the games in AMERICA so tough your not going some yank is instead
Imagine being a premier League team supporter all your life, you might even have British parent who has helped you love the team they support. Wouldn't it be amazing seeing the team you supported all your life in person and then see them win the premier League in person. For the slim chance that would happen it would help get more life long fans to support our clubs. I have been to see NFL games and I have loved it each time. I don't mind if Premier teams play in the USA as it can only be good for the fans there. With the problems with profit and loss, this might be a great way for teams to make some extra money. I think it would be great and I would support it to make the game accessible for fans wherever they are. I think champions League game should be held there also. The teams, players and fans should all have a say. I think it would be amazing to be able to take a holiday to the USA to watch a game, say in LasVegas.
@@user-mg5cm4vs3m Beyond out of touch… it’s a working class game that is already far too expensive. You want to further punish life-long fans by moving games abroad too?
Support your local club and league, and by all means support a foreign team too. Keep league games within their regions.
Imagine being English and not being able to express yourself properly. :)
@@user-mg5cm4vs3m yeah you can do that by traveling to England premier league tickets aren't that hard to get...
@@user-mg5cm4vs3m or don't be a gimp and travel or watch games on tv. The entitlement is real.
Found it really rich American owners complaining that FIFA is a closed model which is anti competition while every single sports league in the USA is a cartel.
As someone from the States I much rather take the flight over to watch matches and have done that before. Many of us appreciate the differences between how American sports are run compared to the EPL
Half of football is the amtosphere. The prem atmospheres are phenomenal for some clubs, e.g. NUFC. That that to Miami or something and have no atmosphere...
American here who will never get to see a premier league game cuz I won’t fly.
Agreed do not move the matches
The death of football.
Football has died multiple times.
What's inconvenient is needing to subscribe to Peacock, USA, Paramount, and ESPN+ to access all the games. It's BS.
imagine having to get 3 different subscriptions and still not getting access to half the games over here
Subscribing to Peacock, USA, Paramount, and ESPN+ to access all the games is convenient.
Google "releasesky". You can watch the 3pm games for free.
@@andrewarriaga5700 much more convenient than having the games hosted on a single platform. Good call, bro.
EPL does not need to whore itself to America our model works and we are best sports league in the world.
NFL shits on premier league tbh
@@jordanl8733 No one watches the NFL that the problem. That why they whore themselves around the world they need the money.
@@jordanl8733lmao, don't be silly
@@superunknown95nfl genuinely make a fuck ton of money and most of the team are profitable, the PL can’t say the same
@@jordanl8733 there's a thing called wikipedia, open it, check the annual revenueS, close it. you're welcome
Athletic clearly underlining the fact it is owned by Yanks
When you move a club match abroad, you’re taking from one set of fans to sell to another. This isn’t growing the game at all. This is capitalism killing football.
The club owners, folks like the ESL will say “oh we need more cash” blah blah. That’s just nonsense. It’s plainly these owners, Presidents gatekeeping clubs from fans. “You want to support X club? Pay up.” These people aren’t custodians of clubs that have decades and decades of history. They wedge in as profiteers, monetising fandom and support with paywalls.
This is the most ridiculous idea to have Prem matches actually played in the US. No one seems to care about how football is being diluted so the rich can get richer.
30:35 the diamond example doesn't really fit as there are already exhibitions in the US. Friendlies are literally called exhibition matches.
Keep the E in the EPL.
Poor Americans. It’s so inconvenient having games during the day 🙄
Try living in Australia. We are watching games at 2 - 4 in the morning!!!
Football viewing hours are excellent in the USA. Between Europe, South America, and North America there are usually consistent live matches from 7:00 am until midnight.
To be fair, Hawaii, Alaska, and the West Coast times aren't all that favorable for 12:30 UK games either. It's 2:30 am in Hawaii, 3:30 am in Alaska, and 4:30 am in California. The 3 PM UK games aren't a problem for America though (well except Hawaii).
3pm, how inconvenient...🙄
Mate, I live in Australia and we're lucky if it's 3am.
All those extra plane rides for the 1% but meat is the carbon problem 😂
"They have kept the away tickets to a reasonable price as well"... THEY would be price gouging to their hearts content and more if they could get away with it. It's those loyal and passionate fans who use their collective might to protest and fight for reasonably priced tickets!!
The FA should export the Championship to the US. The standard is better than MLS but friendlies would be competitive and some lower league clubs already have followings in America because of documentaries
No.
As an American, looking at how the super league went down, don’t think this will be a popular idea.
F**k no!!! Premier League games have a home and away fixture. All premier League stadiums are in Britain. Hell no going rhe USA. And to change the model to match the American audience is vile 🤮🤮🤮
Absolute bullshit. If that happens I'm done!!
Maybe supporting leeds in the championship isn't so bad.
Oh and with the damage to local economies and the environment no
Don’t come to the US it will water down the game . Let us Americans go to you. Do no come to the us
Well done, The Athletic, on using a clickbait headline as an excuse to disseminate gossip. You start off talking about European football competitions, not the Premier League. No announcement has been made about UEFA discussing it. Has the PL discussed moving their games? No. Would the PL get 14 clubs to agree to playing in the US? No. Are the PL clubs involved in the doomed Super League project still scarred from the fans' reactions? Absolutely. There's a reason the PL hasn't jumped for it, even though Spain and Italy has already started moving their cup games out of their own country.
They are shit
People will compare how the NFL has games outside the U.S but the sports culture is just so different this will categorically never happen with the prem we will have super league like backlash on our hands maybe even worse, This lad Adam should focus on being a decent jurno and writing about meaningful topics and not bullshit ideas like this that will literally start WW3.
21mins into the vid I've heard Soccer 10 billion times I'm out park this shit ffs.
Imagine celebrating the delocalisation of our league.
Newcastle and Spurs are playing a 39th game of the season this year on May 22nd in Aus. Fans best interests and player duty of care is already taking a back seat to finances, so I can see this happening for sure
That doesn't count to the prem though so we couldn't careless. The problem is if you start taking meaningful games
No
Huh??????
Yes then we will watch LAFC vs LA Galaxy at Tottenham Stadium.
So are we looking at games in Australia, Mexico, Japan, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco etc.. why just USA ?? Other countries have been interested in the premier league well before USA.
More money?
The thing is for decades the big money European football businessman dreamed of America the United States in general
It’s such a long journey
Just another face to globalisation, bad idea la liga has declined since moving games and finals aboard
Could American owners decide to take their teams to the US, leaving the Prem? They could work with other lage international club owners to play year-round seasons, flying all over the world every week or so, a highly mobile super league.
You will find that even most Americans are against this.
So not a problem having the NFL games all over England but don’t travel to the US to allow American fans to see the EPL in all it’s glory. It would be a dream come true
Good bye the beautiful game, it was fun whilst it lasted. YNWA
There are only impressive African teams in Morocco right? The other parts of Africa don’t have impressive teams right? Lol
Does anyone care about the fans and their communities anymore?
Anybody that wants this to happen isn’t a football fan.
You can absolutely guarantee if they did it, it would be games like Man City vs Bournemouth, but it would he Bournemouth who lose the home game and not City.
Stop trying to justify it, it’s cunty.
Don’t bring Prem games to the US. If they want league games in the US they can get a Non-MLS Club and help grow the game here. Only reason I said “Non-MLS” is because it too expensive to get into MLS and cheaper to buy a European club.
Who gves a shit if its inconvenient for them to watch it, Tough shit. Do we sat the same about American Football etc.
I don't know. Do you say the same?
Premier league wouldn't have became the best league, without the football fan culture of uk with their unqiue chants from the stands end of.
As an American fuck this... Keep it where it belongs. Stop letting money take over the GD game.
I fucking hope not.
Keep Yanks away from football. The ESPN channel is bad enough.
I think it's a no brainer to play a few games on the East coast of America. These are global clubs with global fan bases, we can't pretend it's just local match receipts that pay the bills.
Nah. Keep the games over there. No need to play league games in the US. I hate that the NFL does this crap and don't need to see EPL, La Liga, or any other European leagues play a game in the US. Yes there are global fans but go to them and experience the game in the community where it was born and bred.
@@StylistecS nah this is parochial nonsense. Next you will be telling me McDonald's should have just stayed in one city. 🤦♂️
@@paulbo9033 comparing a fast food restaurant to a football club that established roots in a certain area. It’s not the same and you know it. The atmosphere will be trash here. They may have European games or domestic cups in the middle of the week. They have to travel thousand of miles to play a game then travel back immediately to play three to five days later. It doesn’t make any sense. Keep it in England. We are good with the international preseasons.
The players play way to many games as it is. Now you are wanting to add traveling to the problems?
@@StylistecS they'll survive. Besides there are things you can do including changing rules and tinkering with number of games required in a season. We can't stay stuck in the past, clubs have established roots all over the world. No one is saying they won't be local clubs and retain the local feel, all we are saying is play a few games elsewhere. If you think clubs can't handle travel then wait till you find out about CL away games. I'm English and a fan of a certain London club but I can't pretend that my club (and others) is still just local and we can dictate. The club is where it is now because of fans around the world. This is not 1995, we can't turn the clock back. Next you will be shouting "Take Back Control" at me.
@@paulbo9033 won't happen. Delusional to think it will
No no no
It would be cool if we can also play MLS games in Wembley, Ethiad, Emriates, and Stamford Bridge. I wanna see NY Red Bulls vs NYC FC at the Ethiad.
You would have to give free tickets to the local schools to get a crowd.
Would be literal Emptihad
Imagine a bunch of brits trying to play baseball at a major league game. The army would have to come to stop them getting lynched.
@@MartinGreen932 Do you think Yankees are violent animals? I agree that’s why I’m a Mets fan LOL
@@MartinGreen932 get it?
more hot air from these useless so called journalists, one day they may discuss some thing that is actually relevant.
Hope not, but greed is greed, as if the Premier league gives a monkeys about the fans these day 😢
Embarrassing