Oligarchs Invade the British Isles (3)

"Oligarchs worth tens of billions, coming from frigid Moscow to the British Isles.

They waved their checkbooks, acquiring Arsenal and Chelsea, two clubs that the British people took pride in.

They would also spend enormous transfer fees to bring in one world-class superstar after another!

So was this ultimately a blessing or a misfortune?

For now, I'm afraid it was still difficult to draw a conclusion.

Perhaps for the fans of those two clubs, this was wonderful news. After all, their beloved clubs now had powerful financial backing, and they would get to watch more superstars deliver one thrilling match after another.

But what about the other Premier League clubs?

I'm afraid they would not be happy about it!

In a year or two, perhaps we would be surprised to find that the Premier League's original landscape had already changed.

Arsenal and Chelsea would fight for first and second place, while the other teams could only compete for third!

Even the entire world of professional football would be deeply affected. From then on, professional football would enter the era of big money..."

That was roughly the content of Helen's front-page headline story in The Times.

Out of professional habit, she had given the article a highly sensational title, but its content was still fairly objective and truthful.

Some of its predictions were even very accurate.

Perhaps at this point, many people in football still had only a vague understanding of Wang Ye and Abramovich buying Premier League clubs. They had not fully realized what kind of impact it would have on them.

But Helen had already keenly sensed it and made a bold prediction: world football would enter an "era of big money"!

From then on, emerging giants such as Arsenal and Chelsea would use the nearly "unlimited" financial power