The bottom feeders of this season’s Premier League are under American ownership as Derby County chairman Adam Pearson has managed to find new investors for the club.
Although the new faces are, at this point, unnamed, the article does mention that “the group were previously involved in talks with a takeover of Manchester City, only to lose out to Thaksin Shinawatra.”
So will this in some way help keep Derby up this season? Unless the new owners include a magically fairy, probably not. However, it should help provide manager Paul Jewell the needed funds for the summer transfer window, but will it finally help American Benny Feilhaber see some decent playing time?
This move means four of the twenty teams currently in the EPL are owned by Americans (Manchester United, Liverpool and Aston Villa are the others). If only we could convince these people to throw some of that money into MLS.
Labels: Benny Feilhaber, Derby County, EPL, Finance
Source: EPL’s Derby sold American
