There were plenty in English football who feared the worst when Newcastle came under mega-rich Saudi Arabian ownership.
After years of seeing Manchester City's Abu Dhabi owners turn more than a billion pounds into Premier League domination, the arrival of new super-rich owners threatened the existing elite. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was predictably quick to air the concerns of that crowd when he twisted something Newcastle's chief executive had said to make his point that 'there are three clubs in world football who can do what they want financially' and that 'nobody can compete with City' in that regard.
It should shake Klopp and the rest to their cores then, to see Todd Boehly, a man who very much doesn't appear to be a nation state, not just compete with City and the rest but smash them to pieces in terms of spending. In a January transfer window where City spent a shade over £8million, Liverpool splurged 'just' the £35m; Chelsea not only broke the British transfer record to sign Enzo Fernandez for £105m but paid out over £280m across the month to bring in six players.
