Premier League’s global brand luring US investors

THE global potential of the Premier League brand is the primary draw for American owners of sporting outfits whose huge scale within the confines of the US is not replicated overseas.

But this new band of football chairmen has enjoyed mixed results in England’s top flight.

The high profile takeover of Manchester United by Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer and his family in 2005 has seen the club saddled with a huge amount of debt that caused a grassroots surge of opposition, which has seen the rise of the ‘Green and Gold’ anti-Glazer protests growing last season.