Quote Originally Posted by LA Bluebird View Post
Closed shop and the end of season tickets and price breaks for fans are an inevitability at the top level IMO - the Americans and the Saudis aren’t buying clubs for the amount they are for anything other than a guaranteed return and a way to squeeze as much money out of them as possible. A fan from down the road isn’t paying what a tourist will pay for a seat or what they will pay in the club shop 38 times a season.

The only thing left is to quibble over the details and when it happens, but I think it’s more likely that teams are playing mid season games regularly abroad within the next 5 years than not.
People have been saying this sort of thing for about twenty years. Same as the European Super League.

As for the tourists, do they really want to watch Villa, Palace, Brighton, Wolves, Fulham, Everton, etc?