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Here are the biggest questions about the growing influence of American ownership in English football.What's the ownership breakdown in the Premier League right now?In addition to the likes of the Glazer family at Man United and FSG at Liverpool, a whole host of U.S.
celebrities, and capital, have arrived in English soccer up and down the pyramid. Illustrated by ESPN
There are 20 Premier League clubs and only three -- Brentford, Brighton and Tottenham Hotspur -- are wholly owned by English individuals or groups.
The four most successful clubs in English football history -- Liverpool (Fenway Sports Group), Manchester United (Glazer family), Arsenal (Kroenke Sports & Entertainment) and Chelsea (Clearlake Capital/Todd Boehly) -- are all majority-owned by Americans.
It's a safe bet that Liverpool, Birmingham and Wrexham supporters will have a different view of American ownership models than those at Manchester United, who have protested against the Glazers through good and bad times.
Wrexham supporters love Mac and Reynolds, and together, they've become the first club to earn back-to-back-to-back promotions, now finding themselves one step below the Premier League.
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In Liverpool, fans are pretty happy with FSG.
While there have been alliances in the past involving Liverpool, United and Arsenal -- the failed Super League plans being the most controversial initiative -- sources told ESPN it would be wrong to believe that American owners are working from within the Premier League to adopt U.S.-style regulations such as salary caps and league games played overseas.
"The American-owned clubs don't march in step," a source familiar with Premier League ownership meetings told ESPN.
I'm committed to that.
"I don't know how many people want to play Premier League games in America, but I'm not one of them."
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So what happens if any of Snoop Dogg, Mac/Reynolds or Tom Brady take their clubs into the Premier League next season?
It would certainly add even more celebrity buzz to the Premier League, and Swansea, Birmingham and Wrexham could all win promotion this season, but it would need three non-American owned clubs to be relegated from the top-flight to open up the prospect of 14 Premier League teams being U.S.-owned.
The controversy of the failed Super League plans highlighted how passionate English supporters are when it comes to their football teams, and any moves to alter the fabric of the game will almost certainly be resisted again
"But we've been able to do that through different means, through brilliant broadcast partnerships, through digital technology, investing in other areas, and now the Premier League is a genuinely global league.
"So we've achieved that objective by different means; that necessity has dissipated."
So for now, at least, there are no plans to take Premier League games overseas or to adopt the NFL/NBA models of salary caps or to end relegation.
The unpredictability, the tradition and -- perhaps most of all -- the chance to make a big buck in English football is what is driving American interest in the game