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American investment in soccer will soon face a stern opponent: itself

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Soccer's final barriers to total commercialization and highest-bidder-ism are crumbling.

Competitions like the Premier League , La Liga, Serie A and Liga MX are evidently free to undertake incursions into the territorial sovereignty of Major League Soccer now that a lawsuit by a promoter has been settled.

American investors have systematically bought European clubs or bits of them.

Real Salt Lake and the NWSL ’s Utah Royals recently sold for a reported $ 600 m.

The Saudi takeover of historic Premier League mainstay Newcastle United in 2021 was valued at 300 m ($ 400 m) Now that the rest of the soccer world has been fully liberated to treat the United States as an ATM to be plundered.