![]() Blackburn’s good plan would now be Manchester City’s idea of the scrapings of the football life. Scudamore admits: “We all came away from that meeting knowing they weren’t going to be champions but it’s hard to say breaking even and not losing a lot of money is not a good plan.” The Blackburn owner Anuradha Desai may have stumbled at a rather earlier hurdle but here her distance from the realities of a new world - she apparently believed a mere £4million would comfortably install Ronaldinho as the new hero of Ewood Park - plainly didn’t provoke a single raised eyebrow. Then club owners vote on the suitability of the new applicant. If Venky’s had decided to promote its chickens in America rather than here it would still be knocking on the door of the National Football League, which is run on the amazing principle that a league is only as strong as it weakest members.įlowing quite naturally from this position is a vetting system of relentless thoroughness - and not just in terms of the potential owners’ good standing with law enforcement agencies and the banks but also in their capacity to properly undertake the challenge facing them in a new and quite demanding world. Or, it seems, even if they have the vaguest clue about making some kind of progress in a league which has never been so profoundly shaped by the sheer force of money. It is the one that in Munich a week tomorrow will have roughly half the nation marvelling at the miracle of redemption conjured by Roberto di Matteo in taking Chelsea to the Champions League Final - and the other seething over the residual strength of the huge investment by Roman Abramovich. SPONSORED How London can be a decarbonisation pioneer ![]() WWE Money in the Bank 2023: Match card, start time, venue, predictions, latest odds.More qualifying misery for Sergio Perez as Max Verstappen pips Charles Leclerc.Wimbledon 2023: Full schedule, seedings, match times, tickets, prize money and TV.This is understandable enough when you remember the scale of the red sea lapping around the accounts of, let’s not forget, the best and most spectacular football league in the world - and Scudamore’s confidence that City’s final challenge, assuming they beat Queen’s Park Rangers, of living successfully within the Financial Fair Play regulations will be accomplished as smoothly as some inspired inter-change between Yaya Toure and Sergio Aguero. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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