By 2009 Premier League Will Be All Foreign Owned ; in the First Part of a Report Into the Flood of Overseas Takeovers, John Madejski Reveals Why the English Owner Is a Dying Breed.

Evening Standard - London › June 20, 2007

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RARELY a day passes at the moment without talk of another club falling into foreign hands. The Premier League is awash with money and no shortage of billionaires willing to invest huge amounts of their fortunes for a slice of personal glory.

By the start of next season, half of the clubs in England's top flight could be owned by men who were born outside our shores.

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By 2009 Premier League Will Be All Foreign Owned ; in the First Part of a Report Into the Flood of Overseas Takeovers, John Madejski Reveals Why the English Owner Is a Dying Breed.

There may be only three domestic trophies on offer to these foreign raiders, but that does not seem to be putting them off.

The latest clubs linked to a foreign takeover are Manchester City, Birmingham and Blackburn eight have already gone and this, according to one Premier League owner, is a trend that will not be reversed.

John Madejski is a dying breed an Englander in charge of an English team.

But he told Standard Sport today that our top league will be entirely foreign owned within two years.

The Reading chairman insisted that the sole reason for this ...

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