All of that is true, but if I interpreted your earlier post correctly, your idea is to allow for a closed shop with enforced parity a la American leagues?There have never been 2 decades across Europe when fewer clubs have claimed the spoils of football. Its bossed by some of the most corrupt organizations in the world. Everything is about commercialization, all staged for broadcasting revenue.
Its odd to me that you can manage to claim to like that.
That's not even throwing the baby out with the bathwater, that's chucking the baby and leaving the bathwater.
I mean lets be real here, "modern football, innit" is the only football you and I have ever known. And we both support one of the glittering global brands of the sport that are the "haves" of this system.
I thought you said it really well earlier, that the American-style system serves to sever the business element of sports from the on-field competitive aspect.
Whether it's soccer, college football, Formula 1, sports where the teams are genuinely competing against one another, rather than a league-managed simulacrum of competition, are much more meaningful and compelling, IMO.
That's why there's a bright-line difference between City buying the league and the ESL.