Last year all but one of the US-owned Premier League clubs voted to approve changes to rules governing commercial deals, despite opposition from Manchester City and Newcastle United.
That may have reinforced fears that if the time comes when 14 of the clubs are controlled from the US, they could vote as a bloc to force changes through.
However, insiders guard against an assumption that just because a group of owners are from one country, they will collude to ‘Americanise’ English football.
They make the point that within the group of US-owned clubs, there are important differences, with some controlled by private equity, while others are run by an individual, family, business or consortium.
Indeed, the Premier League has rarely seemed as divided as it has in recent