IT’S the non-sale sale.
Everything can go. For the right price. Probably, despite the denials.
Except Manchester City that is.
But while the money men from Abu Dhabi are preparing for their next scrap with Uefa over Financial Fair Play, the clubs left in City’s Premier League wake have their own battles to face.
So far, whenever the question of members of the Big Six being for sale arises, the response has been constant: No.
Roman Abramovich, the club insists, remains committed to Chelsea.
Despite rumours of a £2billion bid from financier Jim Ratcliffe and a similarly-sized offer from the Czech Republic.
At Manchester United, the Glazers are not interested in any deal to sell to potential Saudi owners, irrespective of the size of the offer.
Even though representatives of the club appear to be popping up in the Gulf at regular interviews.
Fenway Sports Group emphatically and vigorously rejected suggestions from New York that owner John Henry was ready to cash in on his Merseyside investment.
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And in North London, where Stan Kroenke has reinforced his hold on Arsenal after buying up the shares owned by Alisher Usmanov, Spurs are adamant Joe Lewis is not waiting for the final completion of the club’s new 62,000 home before listening to offers.
They may, of course, all be telling the truth.
Indeed, given the fact that the one Premier League club owner who publicly revealed he was ready to listen to offers, Mike Ashley, remains in charge at Newcastle, it might be harder to sell than it seems.
Yet if there is interest, worms dangled in the pond, for long enough, you suspect one of the fish might well bite.
Abramovich has certainly been willing to bankroll Maurizio Sarri.
But the Russian is, unquestionably, still furious at being prevented from seeing his side play after his UK visa was rejected.
Why would Abramovich continue to plough money in when he gets so little back?
Maybe £2billion is not enough. But what about £2.5bn? Or £3bn?
At some point, you might feel, the offer might be too much for anyone to turn down, even a billionaire oligarch who cannot play with his favourite toy.
Those suggestions of Saudi interest in United, to, hold water.
Abu Dhabi and the Saudis are close allies.
It is already felt that Sheikh Mansour – like Qatar with PSG – is using football as a form of peddling “soft power”.
Should the Saudis join their neighbours in owning one of English football’s giants – and you do not get many bigger brands than United – it would be a further sign of the region’s new reach.
In America, franchises do change hands. Not all the time, but not that infrequently.
FSG have certainly spent money on Liverpool, although, in the USA, some Boston Red Sox fans have questioned Henry’s split loyalties.
If an offer that gives him a return on his significant investment on Merseyside does come in, Henry may decide that it is worth listening to rather than dismissing out of hand.
And at some point, certainly once White Hart Lane’s successor stadium is finally completed – although nobody can be certain when that will be – Lewis and Daniel Levy might wonder if their job at Tottenham is done, that somebody else might want to take the club on to the next level.
Owning a Premier League club brings its own power surge. That is not in doubt.
But businessmen do not make money out of sentiment. They make it by taking sound business decisions.
That does not mean every club is on the market.
Perhaps, though, all of the biggest draws are attainable.
The question may, in the final analysis, simply be the price.
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