Andy Townsend CLAIMS There Would Be PROBLEMS If The Premier League Took Games Abroad Next Season 😱

Forrrrr the love of god don’t play premier league games here! If we want to watch a premier league game live we should have to get a passport and book a flight.

Idea - Play the Community Shield abroad as it’s a competitive game. To compensate for the loss of a UK Community Shield, deduct £50k from each Premier League team's prize money and donate to those causes

WTF. We are not in the 1990's! People at games are watching and betting on other games on their phones. They haven't even allowed games to be shown on TV btw 3-5pm on a Saturday in the UK. They haven't even built a "Netflix" style channel for the premier league ( its 32 years old). No-one needs to leave the country for the Premier League to make more money.

The Premier League is looking at the money that the NFL is making by going abroad in one or two games a season, and thinking that they can top that, and they probably could. I suspect there is a far greater appetite for PL games around the world than for the NFL, and that may be why American investors are so interested in the clubs. Eventually the Premier League (or a few of its members) will likely all but abandon their season ticket fans in favour of more tourists at games. There are already significant numbers of fans travelling for games from abroad, and it's no coincidence that clubs are building hotels in or around their stadiums. I suppose the silver lining may be televised 3pm games on UK TV, but I suspect it's more likely that clubs will run their own subscription services, so you pay through the nose to see your club and not be there, with a far less engaged fan base in the stadiums.

These are england's tourist attractions. If US want to watch the game live, they need to travel to watch it. Should the americans bring the statue of liberty here, so we can see it 😂😂

Nobody wants to see our clubs playing premier League games outside the uk

It's going to happen. The clubs, money men and players don't care about the fans. It's been bound to happen for years and I'd be more surprised if there aren't premier league games in the USA 25/26 season.

This is about johnny come lately US billioinaires and companies like Nike, none of whom had any significant role in football from 1860 - 2000, thinking that they now rule football. They don't rule football, they rule a business that purports to call itself football. Football is a sport supported by fans, it is not a business frequented by customers. I simply don't understand why anyone wastes time deferring to Americans who have zero to teach sports about sport, even if they have much to teach about cartels, profits for failure and franchises leaving communities because they don't care about the social captial of a sports club, all they care about is making money. The most important thing about the EPL is that Americans cannot start to say who is a fit and proper owner. They want 20 American owners in a league without relegation, that is painfully obvious. Regulation by the UK Government must make it quite clear that clubs are NOT leaving their home towns/cities to please US robber baroins. They are not moving cities as a franchise. They will be zero public subsidies for billionaires expecting others to build stadia for them. There will not be American coaches and players foisted onto the EPL unless their standards match the best in the world. Americans did not 'make the EPL successful', they bought into it because it was already so successful that it put the inward-looking US sports to shame in terms of its global appeal. The stadia were full of English fans, not American fans and that is why the Americans bought in. Now they want to deny English fans what has been their social heritage for 150 years and more. They are going to have to be told that that is totally unacceptable.

I blame the US. Its a terrible idea, but if theres money to be made they’ll probably do it at some stage. I can understand teams from Spain and Italy doing it as they don’t earn as much as PL teams do from TV rights, but here they’re already earning a fortune. Its just greed. Global TV rights already make more than enough for clubs.

Any news on the Arsenal - Man United game from yesterday? 😂

Well look if they play all the premier league games in other countries, all over the world Manchester United would never need to build a new stadium, they would be delighted with that.

Boxing, golf, football. Even snooker is getting moved to Saudi Arabia. Royal Ascot, Wimbledon and the British Grand Prix will be held there within a decade!

The objective is to make the EPL into the NFL.

Imagine Palace v Wolves in Miami.. Cant wait for that one 😂

6.7 billion pound tv deal, record revenue streams. Despite this, clubs ate spening 70/80/ 90 percent of turnover on wages.

I've been to Thailand. They weren't watching the games...

Germany's Bundesliga is my favourite League but I don't want games to be played here in England and and cup games for that matter

Money talks. If NFL can move 1 of 8 home games away, Prem will move 1 of 19. Inevitable.

money over morals, the ultra capitalism way, capitalism worked at the start but its gone beyond that point

This is exactly what a team like man utd would push for .