The travel will be devastating. I don't see it working. But there are much better ways to develop an international footprint. This scheme won't add or strengthen a single RL nation outside the big three.
It makes much more sense to have more French teams in SL. Toulouse should have been admitted ages ago. Marwan Koukash would be better advised to focus his efforts on getting Nigel Wood to admit Toulouse to the Championship and then focus efforts on a third French club being admitted such as Avignon. Ultimately there needs to be a team from Paris as well. Koukash could help this French development.
In Avignon there are a couple of Moroccan players. Using his Arab connections he could use Avignon as a pathway for Moroccan and Lebanese players, whose development he could help fund in their own countries. I don't mean that Avignon should be a wholly Arab team, just a place where Arab players get a good look in, and thereby enable Avignon to be promoted as an Arab sympathetic team in Lebanon and Morocco, where the club can have its SL games telecast from Europe every week. That will boost the game in France, Lebanon and Morocco. The scheme that Marwan is now proposing will not.
