Gary Neville the Manchester United Legend, has heavily slammed Premier League for their resistance towards an independent regulator, his words sends waves around the footballing world.
In light of the opposition to the Super League proposal, he thinks the regulator as proposed in the Football Governance Bill is essential to guaranteeing the long-term viability and financial stability of English football teams.
Neville contends that the Premier League are opposing the bill because they fear losing control over their dominant position in football governance. He said,
“We have a Premier League that’s entitled, they feel entitled. I’m not going to use the word greedy, but I just have.
They are selfish and I can’t understand that way of thinking. It’s almost like they’re the big brother that sit there and distribute scraps of food to the little brothers round the table.
It’s not what you do when you’re in a family. Their mindset is such of a bully. Their mindset is such that they think they can influence the regulator once the regulator’s introduced and they can get a better deal potentially the other side of the regulator. And what they’re applying is their soft power and their influence to try and create scare stories and scaremongering, like we had a couple of weeks ago.”
Gary Neville has always been known for his strong choice of words and some people think that he has used the correct choice of words regarding the behaviour of the Premier League
Talking at the same Labour conference, Lisa Nandy, Culture, Media and Sport Secretary, has emphasized the independence of the proposed regulator while rejecting reports that English teams like Liverpool and Manchester United might be excluded from European competitions because of UEFAs stance against state intervention.
The Premier League under the direction of CEO Richard Masters has voiced worries saying that,
“My overriding concern is that the bill will reduce our competitiveness and weaken the incredible appeal of the English game. Our competition is the most watched and commercially successful football league in the world. Thanks to that success, Premier League clubs are able to give away £1.6 billion every three years 16 per cent of our total revenues – to the wider game, helping to make it the envy of the world.”
He alarmed by saying,
“It is a risk that regulation will undermine the Premier League’s global success, thereby wounding the goose that provides English football’s golden egg.”
Fans of the footballing world are eager to see the outcome of the resistance from the Premier League, Is Gary Neville right about them?
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