One option might be to open up club ownership to foreign investors. Not the best option maybe but that's what the Prem clubs have done. Look at the big clubs in England for example. LFC, Chelsea, Man Utd, City. All owned by foreign billionaires, oil merchants, sport groups like Fenway etc. A team like City was a joke club not too long ago but with Qatari investment look where they are now. Same for PSG. It's going to be hard to keep up with them after a while.The EPL as a product has grown significantly because of foreign investment in clubs.
No, please no. Privatizing the club will put the club at the mercy of the owner(s) who might have all sort of motives, from using it as a way to cutting down taxes to insurance policy, showboating, cash cow, you name it. Yes if they are happy and we are lucky they pump a lot of money into the club but when they are not, or they are short on money? The club gets screwed, sold to another owner and goes through the same cycle again.
Our misery is mostly on us because of years of mismanagement, binge spending and poor controls in place, with COVID being the second culprit. We could have done a lot better and we can. Real Madrid is faring much better than us, so is Bayern, all member-owned clubs (mostly, in the case of Bayern). What member-owned clubs lack is funding on par with those from the state-owned clubs, but if FFP was still in place we should be OK, as they would not be allowed to bypass all the spending limits as they do now. I think after COVID subsides the FFP or another reincarnation of it will come back.
