The Premier League is a tale of haves, have nots and the ones who have everything and want what you have
Two small, recent stories tell you about the divergent paths the English Premier League is taking.
The second story is a have story. Manchester United has been thrashing around for a decade. Such is United’s economic gravity that even when it is doing everything in its power to fail, it still manages to succeed, if only financially. But it may have finally found the straw to stir its enormously profitable drink – Dutch manager Erik ten Hag.
This divide was ever thus, but it’s taken on a new urgency this summer with the arrival of the Saudis. If this were two real businesses in competition, we’d wait to see whose plan worked better. But the Saudi league is not a business. It’s an aesthetic choice. As long as the Saudis want to spend their cash on soccer players instead of art or yachts, they can.
Still, the hundreds of millions spent in seasons past means that there is so much human talent remaining, it’s unlikely much of it will see the field regularly.
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