Man City manager Pep Guardiola is the latest to have his say on Todd Boehly's controversial all-stars game idea, which he suggested at a recent conference.
As with the NFL, there is one game every season with the National Football Conference playing the American Football Conference. Extrapolate this into the English footballing remit, and this would be a north vs south game filled with all the best players from within the Premier League. The one-off match that takes place annually produces big revenue returns for clubs and their owners, who continue to look into ways of making more money by Marketing and off the field ideas and one on it.
Boehly gave his idea during a SALT conference earlier this week in a chat that also signalled the part of LA Dodger's owners' intentions to buy a feeder club abroad, with Portugal and Belgium name-checked whilst Brazil is also a possible destination. He asked: "Why don't we do a tournament with the bottom four sports teams? Why isn't there an All-Star game?
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"People are talking about more money for the pyramid. In the MLB All-Star game this year, we made $200m (£173m) from Monday to Tuesday.
"So we're thinking we could do a north versus south All-Star game for the Premier League, for whatever the pyramid needed, quite easily."
However, the all-star idea took the headlines, and there has only mostly been a negative reaction from the likes of Jürgen Klopp, David Moyes, Jamie Carragher, Thierry Henry, Micah Richards and many more.
"When he finds a date for that, he can call me. In American sports, these players have four-month breaks," Klopp mocked.
"Maybe he can explain that. I'm not sure people want to see that - [Manchester] United players, Liverpool players, Everton players altogether. North-east, too, so Newcastle. It is not the national team. All the London guys together, Arsenal, Tottenham, great. Did he really say it?"
Going against the grain, though, Guardiola, whilst not coming out against the concept, didn't really give much away with his coy answer given ahead of his sides clash this weekend against Wolves.
When pressed for an answer, the Spaniard said: "I don't have an opinion. Nothing at all. I don't have an opinion, but I'll agree with Jurgen [Klopp]. If they give me the dates that this will be played, that would be nice but not my opinion."
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