The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer\'s Premier League Became the wildest, richest, Most popular Sports product on the planet.
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Jonathan Clegg is a senior editor for The Wall Street Journal.
About the Author: Joshua Robinson is the European Sports correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post and Sports Illustrated.
Deeply researched and drawing on one hundred exclusive interviews, including the key decision makers at every major English team, The Club is the definitive and wildly entertaining narrative of how the Premier League took over the world.
Today, players are sold for tens of millions, clubs are valued in the billions, and games are beamed out to nearly two hundred countries, all while the League struggles to preserve its English soul.
Some lost everything.
Some succeeded beyond their Wildest dreams.
Pretty soon, everyone wanted to try their luck, from Russian oligarchs to Emirati sheikhs, American tycoons, and Asian Tiger titans.
No one knew it when their experiment began, but without any particular genius or acumen, the motley cast of billionaires and hucksters behind the modern Premier League struck gold.
This is a Sports and business tale of how money, ambition, and twenty-five years of drama remade an ancient institution into a twenty-first-century entertainment empire.
The Club is the previously untold inside story of how English soccer\'s Premier League Became the wildest, richest, Most popular Sports product on the planet
