The Athletic FC. Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayur, Akimu Leri. The Premier League currently and historically

has seen a wide range of ownership models from local business mentor sovereign wealth funds,

but what exactly makes a good owner?

All right. In with us today, we've got Matt Slater. We've also got Andy Mitton as well,

a regular on our talk of the devil's podcast. Right, Matt, set the scene for us. Give us a sense

of the different ownership models that currently exist in the Premier League. Off the top of my head, I'm thinking Tony Bloom at Brighton, the Saudi investment fund at Newcastle United.

Gassart, well I know.

I was thinking about doing a really short pod and saying what makes a really good loader.

They've got to be bloody loaded and spend all their money on my football scene.

End of pod. If you read social media,

that appears to be the criteria for good ownership. But anyway, what have we got in the Premier League

at the moment? Well, about half of them, almost exactly half of them, 10 of them, are owned either by

US billionaires or combinations of US billionS. billionaires and or U.S. funds.

So they're owned by very rich Americans.

Then we've got about four clubs, Brentford, Brighton, Spurstil, West Ham,

who are mainly controlled by, if you like, old-fashioned, old school

local Brits, wealthy Brits.

We've got a couple, Forrest and Sunderland, who are owned by rich Europeans.

We've got one, still from the China Wave, wolves hanging on in there.

Two, owned by big Gulf entities, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi.

They own Newcastle and Manchester City.

And then there's one that I'm going to put in a little group of its own.

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