Watch out English Soccer

Setanta’s failings to pay up for Premier League rights does this mark the end of satellite sports. Most unlikely as long as Sky are ever present, and lets face it, it’s a European order on competition law that stops them from owning all of the English FA’s packages. And as proven there’s more than enough people out there ready to snap up what’s left, ESPN buying up Setantas lost rights.

But is there more happening this summer than just the loss of Setanta. Real Madrid are buying up every player, or every great player they can get there hands on. But this and the fact that a number of top European players, not brought by Madrid as yet, have snubbed England’s biggest clubs. Even Manchester City the world richest can’t even offer enough money to lure Eto’o.
So what good will it be to watch the Premier League without the crème of world soccer.

Well it would be pointless, and so the worlds focus will go to Spain most likely. In the 90’s Serie A was the world league, then Dutch soccer nominated. It seemed almost every season Ajax were building a new stadium ,the old stadium becoming their new training ground. Well Italian and Dutch football has over time lost all appeal. For the Italians its most likely down to corruption. For the Dutch their downfall is of their own making. Producing top class youngsters brought up by foreign clubs. Dutch football is a selling league.

Its only logical to think that some day the bubble will burst on English soccer, that the Television interest will move to Spain, where the top players are. And with television comes money, and money is what all players follow. Take that and the fact that the climate in Spain is a lot nicer, well were else would you go.

Manchester United will always remain top, but Arsenal look to be falling away, Chelsea have discovered the difficulty in buying success, and you get the feeling if the Russians get bored then they’ll close up shop. Liverpool will survive on loyalty of fans and romance of what it once was. Manchester City who knows, if you had a choice between Man City or Real Madrid where would you go.

Setanta may mean noting now, but it could be the start of slippery end to English football, which without money it's noting. We’ll watch on to see the outcome, but FA better have a Plan B just in case the world decides to go to Spain. Players move clubs for higher wages, just as we normal folk change jobs for the same reason. The FA have already reinvented the English league introducing the Primiership, when the money goes dry, how do you revented an already revented league.