Liverpool threaten breakaway from Premier League's TV rights deal
The deal that shares television's billions equally between Premier League clubs is facing its biggest threat to date after Liverpool announced they would lead a challenge for overseas TV rights to be sold on a club-by-club basis.
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Really interesting debate here
From a selfish point of view it’s great, but I really don’t want the PL to become like La Liga, where the gap is just ridiculous (and in the PL, it still would be; the rights of us and United would be worth maybe double those of Arsenal and Chelsea, who’d be worth double those of City and Tottenham, which would be worth 10 times everyone else). What’s the fun in a league with >10 teams that can’t do anything to win?
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Agreed. In. Full.
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by Mr. Sanchez on Oct 12, 2011 12:41 AM BST up reply actions
I was hoping
That the recent European TV verdict for the pub owner would force all of the leagues to ban together and have European-wide deals for each of the major leagues. Essentially to force the exact opposite of the situation that Liverpool want and that La Liga is currently in. I agree with the comments made above, I don’t want a La Liga situation. I want to be nervous when we go on the road and face Stoke. I want to have more interesting games each year even if it means we win less titles. Barça is a great team but they play only ~20 meaningful games each year, and I don’t want that for our Reds.
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Like usual, this sort of thing heavily benefits the popular PL clubs Liverpool, the Manchester clubs, Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham. It totally shafts the smaller, less known and less attractive clubs. Just seems unfair. Even though I am an LFC supporter, I just don’t think this is right.
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I don't like it
for all of the reasons mentioned above. The only way I would even consider it is if each game’s revenue was split 50/50 amongst Liverpool and the team they played each weekend. Even then I don’t think I would go for it.
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Now that could work...
because you’d essentially have an even split on all revenues.
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Hm. Very interesting idea there. tbh I think Ayre and FSG are just trying to get the international revenues split like the domestic ones. When the idea to evenly split international revenues was originally proposed, they weren’t nearly as significant as they are now. The even allocation is, even I’ll admit, outdated.
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