Harry Redknapp has said he is pleased that plans for the Super League collapsed, but he is convinced the West Ham owners would have 'jumped at the chance' to join if asked.
The proposed Super League would have seen the 'big six' form their own midweek league with clubs around Europe and could have had disastrous effects on the game at all levels in England.
Writing in The Sun, Redknapp lamented the move away from locally-owned clubs to ones run by 'foreign businessmen with no real affection for the club, no love for the place.'
The former Hammers manager added that West Ham's owners David Gold and David Sullivan, along with Brighton's Tony Bloom, were the only owners left who were fans of the club they run.
Redknapp did not single out the Hammers owners as ones who would have loved to get involved with The Super League but said all 14 other Premier League clubs would have been keen to take part.
"When the 14 who weren’t invited to the proposed Super League were all kicking off, I had a little smile.," Redknapp wrote.
"If any of them had been asked, I’m sure they’d have jumped at it. If anyone said, ‘Hang on a minute, Man City are out, we’re looking for someone else,’ they’d have all had their hands up."
Redknapp likened the plans for The Super League to those of the '39th game' saying that 'while the ESL may have fallen apart because of the fans, there will always be something, it will always be about the bottom line.'
"Remember a couple of years ago there was talk of playing one game abroad," Redknapp added.
"Then it would have been two, then five, then half a season in China, America, all over the place.
"It’s all about owners seeing their investment getting bigger. I’ve been there, I’ve seen it. The fans don’t come into the equation for them."
The ex-Hammer used the example of Bury's demise to outline the greed in the modern game.
"Look at Bury when they were going under. There are Premier League clubs in the area who could have helped out, it would have cost them next to nothing, but no one came forward.
"There is no interest in anyone but themselves. That’s every owner, especially at that level - it’s all about their club and nothing else."
Redknapp warned that while the Super League has been thwarted due to fan power he believes another plan will emerge sooner rather than later.
Because, as Redknapp put it rather bluntly: "It will only ever be about the balance sheet and the profits."
