NFL cartel? What's that? NFL as in American football (not soccer)?
The NFL is only 1 example. The MLS, and MLB operate on a cartel basis.
In baseball, american football, soccer, basketball, one can never start a neighborhood team and make it to the pros, no matter how good the team it s.
Only the franchises are allowed in, and once in , you are in as long as you pay your dues.
In the rest of the world, soccer is strictly merit based. You only stay pro as long as you can cut it.
Its a weird situation.
People want the UEFA / FIFA monopoly broken... but competition coming from....USA cartel holders?
This is what makes it so interesting, too
NOTE: its important to note that the "proposal" is led by clubs that are directly held by american sports ownership. ManU is owned by Glazer, who also owns an NFL franchise.
That's why there is a reference to the NFL.
Glazer & co are effectively trying to de-risk the business by proposing a league where results don't impact the bottom line
What really piqued my interest was your phrase "I think it is brilliant to introduce more competition into the mix" and I wondered if you could expand on that.
Of course, this majority is not secured by good policy, instead it is secured by corruption, payouts to micronations.
I think another league -with different ownership and stakeholders- could make things quite interesting because it would take money out of the system.
However, i'd like for fans or players to own the alternative system, not clubs owned by PE firms and their buddies.