Commentary: Liverpool and Man Utd have a plan to save smaller English clubs. But no one is trusting them

SINGAPORE: The issue in English football that has been most brutally exposed by the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak is inequality.

There have been warnings of clubs going to the wall as Macclesfield Town, relegated from the fourth tier to the fifth, did in September. Some teams have found ways to survive, as Exeter did by a well-planned transfer policy, but most have not been so lucky.There have been calls for outside assistance with many suggestions that EPL clubs should in some way or form provide more financial backing for the clubs from the lower leagues.

“What do we do? Leave it exactly as it is and allow the smaller clubs to wither? Recognise we have an enormous gap, recognise we have a structure that depends [in the EFL] on owner funding? Or do we do something about it?”While the money on offer is tempting, there are wider concerns as to how it will change football and how much control it would give the six biggest clubs in the country on how the game is governed.

With United and Liverpool both having American owners, it is presumed in some quarters that these businessmen would prefer a more US-style franchise system where there is no relegation and the status of the big teams is almost guaranteed.While the move may make the big EPL clubs look like generous heroes rescuing their poorer counterparts in these trying times, the reality is different.

“ ...We are totally opposed to concentrating power in the hands of six billionaire owners and departing from the one club, one vote and collective ethos of the Premier League,” said the statement. “This part of the proposal must be dropped immediately if other elements are to be given serious consideration.

There was one other option. At a meeting of all its 20 clubs on Wednesday , the EPL rejected the proposal led by Liverpool and Manchester United while agreeing to a separate broader base review of English football.

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