Unbelievable Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Just checked, it was 960m for a 12 year deal, but still. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn euros over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m euros per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe. What's with the 20 year duration? Seems illogical from the leagues financial standpoint. No idea. Deal is with Fox Sports and was a huge upgrade on the previous deal. Safe to assume they couldn't get any better though. It's a massive deal, but I still think over 20 years they could've gotten a lot more if they'd sold in 4/5 year packages and then re-negotioate rather than the next 20 in one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 It's going to get to the point with this deal that even the Champions League money isn't worth going for. The league will be as it is forever. No incentive for clubs like us, Everton, Villa, etc to even try because they're rich regardless. Sickening. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 That figure man. For comparison, the Eredivisie has a new deal since last year worth 1bn euros over the course of its 20 year duration, or 50m euros per year. The gap is insane, and will only continue to grow. It's not just upsetting English football, it's effectively destroying football across Europe. Luckily most English clubs are incredibly wasteful with said money otherwise it would get very ugly very quickly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 The end of football as folk knew it. Shame. Still at least shit players and directors will coin it more than ever. Cements everyone bar 4 clubs now being effectively feeder clubs for big English teams too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Aye he's never going. The figure is going to increase to at least £8bn by the time the foreign rights are sold. Next time I think it may break the £10bn mark for domestic games. Is there any word on the highlights package? I think this should be used to let fans in for next to nothing since the income from match day is already irrelevant. bbc got the highlights a week or two ago Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r0cafella Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 The end of football as folk knew it. Shame. Still at least shit players and directors will coin it more than ever. Cements everyone bar 4 clubs now being effectively feeder clubs for big English teams too. Yup which is crazy. If we were run properly we'd actually have the prospect of looking forward to seeing really good players play for us but with Ashley it's hopeless, literally more money for him and nothing else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 The end of football as folk knew it. Shame. Still at least s*** players and directors will coin it more than ever. Cements everyone bar 4 clubs now being effectively feeder clubs for big English teams too. Even before this deal, a club like St Etienne becoming Man City's feeder club. But we see poor/average clubs currently signing players from big European clubs, this is going to get worse. It's horrible. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 the true winners in all this, the parasitic agents Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 5 billion is just grotesque. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 hot damn football is fucked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 the true winners in all this, the parasitic agents Them, the players and some club owners. Everybody else loses out. People should just end their Sky subscriptions and turn to illegal streams in their droves in disgust. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Friday night games man, fuck off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flip Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 At least international football won't be fucked in the terms of some teams getting stronger than others because of financial power. Viva national team squads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Dan Roan @danroan 2m2 minutes ago Astonishing Premier League TV deal means that Sky & BT are paying more than £10MILLION for each & every single match the broadcast live Us vs Stoke would cost them £10m Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor Swift Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 the true winners in all this, the parasitic agents Them, the players and some club owners. Everybody else loses out. People should just end their Sky subscriptions and turn to illegal streams in their droves in disgust. What's wrong with people being rewarded for entertaining others? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bailey Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Utterly obscene amount and football will eat itself eventually imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Honestly don't know how they're turning a profit on that outlay Hope they go bust. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdckelly Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 the true winners in all this, the parasitic agents Them, the players and some club owners. Everybody else loses out. People should just end their Sky subscriptions and turn to illegal streams in their droves in disgust. What's wrong with people being rewarded for entertaining others? players fine, some owners less good agents fuck those parasites and everything they stand for Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Basically confirms (if it was needed by this point) that the fans are completely and utterly expendable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Honestly don't know how they're turning a profit on that outlay Hope they go bust. Seriously, can anyone explain how this is a sensible business plan? How are they recouping that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponsaelius Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 It's probably not on its own, but I was of the impression that battling for the TV rights is all to do with selling the lot together with phone and broadband packages. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Honestly don't know how they're turning a profit on that outlay Hope they go bust. Seriously, can anyone explain how this is a sensible business plan? How are they recouping that? No idea, I'm sure someone will piece it together - David Conn is usually pretty clued up on this sort of stuff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 It's probably not on its own, but I was of the impression that battling for the TV rights is all to do with selling the lot together with phone and broadband packages. Quad play services, Sky is launching it's own Network (virtually) on O2 and BT is buying EE. It's easier to cross sell for them when they can bundle all 4 services to customers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 TOTALLY NOT A BUBBLE HONEST Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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