American Owners: Are they a THREAT to British Football?
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Tom Brady, Rob McElhenney, David Beckham - three names more synonymous with the Hollywood elite than Monday night League One football. But all three were in attendance for last week's game dubbed the Hollywood Owner's Derby - Birmingham City vs Wrexham at St Andrew's. We went along to talk to fans and ask them - have their American ownerships helped to progress their clubs or are those at the top just looking to turn a profit?
Presenter: Henry Hill
Camera: Oli Johnson
Producer: Ben Hooke
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For Birmingham, the owners have been quick-acting, engaging and open from the very start. the fans are fully on board with what the owners are trying to do. They've invested in the infrastructure, the personnel, they've significantly boosted the revenue and commercial activities without ripping off fans and the end goal is to not only transform the club to one that sits proudly at the top table competing amongst the elite, but also transform and regenerate East Birmingham to the tune of £2-3 billion. They're truly backing the club and in turn the fans have responded, whereas before there was deep-seated apathy and hopelessness
@TCPH
KEEP RIGHT ON!
For now....and I stress that mate
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@@FalseNi9e Everything in life is 'for now'.
Nevile has such an issue with US ownership but shows up in the BCFC V Wrexham match and then decides to start another show to tap into the US market.
The shots at Salford were great 😂
Yes Knightshead might have seen Birmingham city as business venture..Still do..But the difference is Tom Wagner has fallen in love with the club...Loves the passion the fans have for the club & gives it back in return....Best thing that's happened to Birmingham city...!!!
INDEED .
There is no ceiling for either club really. Birmingham's potential is limitless, naturally, and if Wrexham are seen as The North Wales' team, where is their ceiling
The current US ownership at BCFC has gone strength to strength despite relegation last season. Wagner & Knighthead had poured so much effort and enthusiasm in improving the ground and infrastructure giving it a massive lease of life bringing many lifelong Blues fans back after many years away. I know because I'm one of them, returning to St Andrews after 22 years. Boy I loved it. There's so much positivity about the place that the previous owners couldn't generate. Yes, they have clout but the Americans can turn a football club round by giving the fans what they deserve no matter what division they're in.
Deep down, I do NOT want to see any other British club, that's including Scotland and Ireland as well as in Europe owned by any Chinese establishment ever again. They literally sucked the soul out of Birmingham City with their constant assurances and their shambolic decision making. The game in Britain and Europe have moved on in the 20th century and every club need careful consideration of who their next owners might be. And never trust the Chinese.
I am into my 60s now and i intend to visit St Andrews once again this season and I vow to be around when the proposed new stadium nearby is built hopefully before I'm 70. Already, the Blues are riding high in League One and will no doubt return to the Championship next season when our quest to return to the Premier League after many years will be a sterner test. I'm sure we will challenging for promotion rather than languishing in the bottom third of the League. Winning some silverwear especially the FA Cup will be an added bonus but deep down I rather see a sense of a long lasting stability at my beloved football club that was sadly lacking in recent years.
Football culture have moved on over the years especially the way the clubs are being run.
Good video,as a Blues fan were really grateful to our owners for rescuing us,,as we were going nowhere,-its how things are today,-no Brits have got the kind of money that is needed ti invest in football clubs,-so they will be all foreign owned eventually, KRO
American owner saved West Brom - I'm grateful.
Everyone is against Yank owners and,Allah forbid,Saudis...until they arrive and start throwing cheques around.
Or the French or (formerly) the Russians
Love this video. Keep it up, happy to see you doing your own thing
Thanks so much! Really appreciate it
[Henry]
Wrexham isnt far from Liverpool. That will always be the issue for them
Wrexham is the only professional football club in North Wales, a population of 750k people. The potential is huge. This is why they chose Wrexham
We previously had Chinese owners that pretty much destroyed the club . West brom and wolves have been seriously hampered by Chinese owners. Why not talk about Chinese owners instead of American?
omg its harley foster
its harley foster
you guys seemed to go into this vid w an agenda wanting to talk down american owners the entire time, just say you don't like them bc it's obvious that's what you tryna say
Absolute rubbish. American owners have saved Birmingham city!
Why is everyone a afraid no to use the word CHINESE !!!
Luton spent a lot of money more than the had look where that has got them now back in the championship straddling.
alot better position then they couldve imagined even 5 years ago
Nah, oil money ruined the Premier League
First
Love this style of video
As a Canadian Sunderland fan I would say that any owner can be good and bad. Currently Sunderland is owned by French guy, before that a bit of a dodgy Englishman and before that an American who wanted to win and thought money was the only way to do that.
Team ownership is tricky, it takes a lot of money and time and owners who are only looking to make a quick pound are not in the best interests of the team no matter where they are from.
The key to it is who do they surround themselves with, are the leadership able to whether fans outrage and still get things mostly right.
Too frequently there is this concept in the UK, that screams a bit of Brexit, that international owners and fans are to blame for the problems in the leagues. The leagues had issues long before international owners, and the money in modern Football forces a lot of focus away from simply 3pm on a Saturday vibe. The only way you get that back is IF the Premier League falls flat, has more bankruptcies and financial chaos which forces the league to back pedal from the over spending and support for those teams both local and international flags.
Or you have the government intervene and force a German style system that seems to put 1 and occasionally 2 teams at the top of the pyramid to the determent of everyone else.
i think the thing with north american owners specifically is that there are a lot of eyes on them and they can’t necessarily get away with shady business practices as easily. i say this as an american fan of wrexham who genuinely believes the owners care about the club
Good little piece that. I am a Birmingham fan and agree with those Wrexham fans about Gary Neville. He’s not a bad match commentator but knows jack **it about anything else at all (no idea why he gets listened to but hey?!). US owners not a threat to our club’s culture at all in my view. The UK government are far more of a threat to it. Both main parties hate the pastimes of the working classes and would dearly love to change it as they see fit.
Look at the effect its had on my team Ipswich Town, our owner was just treading water, but in all fairness to him, he did wipe out our debt.
American owners come in and immediately start to put money where it's needed. Yes, it was a bit of a gamble when Paul Cook was sacked and an unknown Kieran McKenna appointed, but WOW, look at what's happened.
NEVER in the history of my club have we been able to buy the players commanding the fees, we paid in the Transfer Window, our spending since take over has been methodically based rather than reputation based.
Obviously our owners are investment based, so are looking at the long term picture, but it's thus in their best interests to keep us in as high a league position as possible.
Obviously if the arse falls out of the team and we plummet down the leagues again, they may well hold back on investment and/or look to sell, but hopefully this won't happen, certainly not in the manner we've seen in the past decades.
If lady luck smiles, well still be here this time next year.
As mentioned, football is Money orientated now, so if you don't have any, then you will certainly struggle.
Onwards and upwards, good luck Wrexham and Birmingham
As a wrexham fan that listened to all the scepticism for past 4 years (from other fans) this is a refreshing watch . I was at this game and whilst it was a shite performance for us and we got schooled on the night in fairness , you could see that the fans are buying into what tom brady and co . They are a big club undoubtedly and it should be a target of ours to aspire to be of that size ie stadium, infrastructure etc
Well documented but we too have had shite owners over last 20 years or so and to see hat R&R are doing to the club now is a million miles from that and its all positive mostly , Downside is tickets are a mare to get hold off for some people but would i swap that for national league football in front of 4-5000 fans ? no fucking chance !!!
Henry Hill can do some real journalism?
0:12 I hope people appreciate the line ending in "Or did Gary Neville have a point"
Hahaha there not a treat too the Welsh we love them