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This stunning investement from Manchester City - 2 minute clip highlighting what investement can bring.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30376774

There has been investement at all levels of the English game , many so called `smaller` clubs have of course invested in Stadia / training facilities etc with no guarantee of it bringing success on the pitch. This City investement clearly highlights that they mean business and are planning at being at the top end of the game for years to come.

The facilities are world class , but once the rich owners get fed up , you have to ask , Then what ?

Will the English bubble burst ?

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It shows that citeh have the infrastructure in place for the long term irrespective of whether the EPL bubble bursts or not.

I see Osborne turned up at eastlands as well, pledging uk gov millions to make England the best football team in the world. Is there an election coming up?

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It shows that citeh have the infrastructure in place for the long term irrespective of whether the EPL bubble bursts or not.

I see Isaac Osborne turned up at eastlands as well, pledging uk gov millions to make England the best football team in the world. Is there an election coming up?

Swop deal for Plummer ?

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This stunning investement from Manchester City - 2 minute clip highlighting what investement can bring.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30376774

There has been investement at all levels of the English game , many so called `smaller` clubs have of course invested in Stadia / training facilities etc with no guarantee of it bringing success on the pitch. This City investement clearly highlights that they mean business and are planning at being at the top end of the game for years to come.

The facilities are world class , but once the rich owners get fed up , you have to ask , Then what ?

Will the English bubble burst ?

have not looked up the link as I am abroad. English football is rich particularly the top tear. It is shown world wide on TV bringing in Heeps of cash. Know wonder it can invest. Scottish football is extremely limited in its market appeal.
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Don't see why it will burst. The only way it will is if the global tv audience for EPL matches falls.

That's certainly showing no signs of happening, it's growing exponentially year on year. As the audience grows, the league will be able to charge more for the TV rights. The more they charge, the more these clubs will get.

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Don't see why it will burst.

That's certainly showing no signs of happening, it's growing exponentially year on year.

That is the very definition of a bubble.

Many of us are old enough and wise enough to have seen this sort of thing happen repeatedly throughout the last 50 years in every industry and across every field you can imagine.

Bubbles ALWAYS burst. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to suggest that the EPL will escape the fate of many other industries before them.

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That is the very definition of a bubble.

Many of us are old enough and wise enough to have seen this sort of thing happen repeatedly throughout the last 50 years in every industry and across every field you can imagine.

Bubbles ALWAYS burst. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to suggest that the EPL will escape the fate of many other industries before them.

Disagree completely.

The EPL is taking advantage of the economic growth in places like India and China. TV ownership and subscriptions is going through the roof in these developing nations, and they all love the EPL.

All signs and evidence point to demand continuing to increase. It may decrease or flatten out at some point in the far future, but certainly not in the next decade or two.

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Plenty of empty seats on show today

They aren't the only team with this problem recently

I remember Italian fitba had the tv money and had the best players in the world

The sight of empty spaces in the stands puts people off and that what happened to Italian fitba

The clubs will need to come back to reality soon as it's too expensive and fans are voting with their feet

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Plenty of empty seats on show today

They aren't the only team with this problem recently

I remember Italian fitba had the tv money and had the best players in the world

The sight of empty spaces in the stands puts people off and that what happened to Italian fitba

The clubs will need to come back to reality soon as it's too expensive and fans are voting with their feet

The only way for the fans to take back their clubs is a choice they won't make. Stop investing in TV games. It's a catch 22 situation.

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Disagree completely.

The EPL is taking advantage of the economic growth in places like India and China. TV ownership and subscriptions is going through the roof in these developing nations, and they all love the EPL.

All signs and evidence point to demand continuing to increase. It may decrease or flatten out at some point in the far future, but certainly not in the next decade or two.

You could be right.

The EPL could be the very first business model which doesn't suffer from a massive bust following what is clearly a massive bubble.

They could well have a soft landing with wages flattening out and interest in the English game could well be maintained permanently.

It may well be that football fans in India, China and eventually Africa simply cream themselves over how the Southampton v West Ham match is going.

Of course this ignores hundreds of years of trade and commerce experience to the contrary but you could still be right.

It also ignores the fact that when India and China get their own Premierships sorted out that local fans will drop the EPL like a stone because their own leagues are stronger.

It also ignores the fact that continued EPL dominance requires every other country in the world to sit idly by and allow it.

It ignores the fact that EPL match fees are rapidly becoming unaffordable for those other than the very well off, who won''t be watching matches every week in the winter when they can watch at home, and crowds will eventually start to drop.

Those TV pictures showing empty seats are going to look simply fabulous in India and China.

Finally it ignores the possiblity of another sport simply echoing what the EPL did and supplanting them as the must-watch sport.

BTW the lessons of history teach us that empires crumble when they appear to be at their strongest and most unassailable and that everyone involved at the time thought the good times would go on forever. Ask former IBM, Hoover or Motorola employees about that if you like as an example.

But hey, opinions are opinions and yours is just as valid as anyone's.

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You could be right.

The EPL could be the very first business model which doesn't suffer from a massive bust following what is clearly a massive bubble.

They could well have a soft landing with wages flattening out and interest in the English game could well be maintained permanently.

It may well be that football fans in India, China and eventually Africa simply cream themselves over how the Southampton v West Ham match is going.

Of course this ignores hundreds of years of trade and commerce experience to the contrary but you could still be right.

It also ignores the fact that when India and China get their own Premierships sorted out that local fans will drop the EPL like a stone because their own leagues are stronger.

It also ignores the fact that continued EPL dominance requires every other country in the world to sit idly by and allow it.

It ignores the fact that EPL match fees are rapidly becoming unaffordable for those other than the very well off, who won''t be watching matches every week in the winter when they can watch at home, and crowds will eventually start to drop.

Those TV pictures showing empty seats are going to look simply fabulous in India and China.

Finally it ignores the possiblity of another sport simply echoing what the EPL did and supplanting them as the must-watch sport.

BTW the lessons of history teach us that empires crumble when they appear to be at their strongest and most unassailable and that everyone involved at the time thought the good times would go on forever. Ask former IBM, Hoover or Motorola employees about that if you like as an example.

But hey, opinions are opinions and yours is just as valid as anyone's.

Jeez, it's hard to talk to someone who quite clearly has no idea what they're talking about.

Domestic football in China and India and all developing nations is nowhere near as popular as the EPL and never will be. I heard a documentary about Nigerian football fans in Lagos last year. They were all watching an EPL game in a bar, and the reporter asked them who had won the Nigerian domestic league that season. Not one of them knew.

To suggest that their domestic football is suddenly going to overtake the EPL in popularity is just blatant ignorance to be honest.

Regarding Southampton and West Ham... It doesn't matter if they're popular in developing nations. Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea are. And if you buy the EPL TV rights you buy them from the league. Therefore all EPL clubs benefit equally from a TV deal.

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