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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/jul/16/liverpool-malaysian-xi-friendly
Have a read of this - the bit about the crowd. It was a pattern of their whole tour. Why would this be so if they supported only who was winning?
Given that in a game of football you have to play someone else, how does individual TV rights work?
So Liverpool sign a deal with Sky International to screen every one of their games for huge amounts of money, fine. Meanwhile we follow the same small minded marketing approach we always do and sign a deal with Channel 5 or Babestation. Apart from the potential of our half time entertainment improving, what will happen with Liverpool visit the SOL?
Would we get a slice of the Liverpool cash, or would their deal only apply to their home games? Essentially it might come down to image rights. Surely if Liverpool are going to sell on games to their private deal, then they have to buy a slice of our image rights to allow them to show us on their channel. I can see lots of complications arising here.
Non-story as it requires 14 members to all be in agreement and I don't believe such reforms would benefit as many as 14 teams in the PL.
The subject of TV money was touched upon when SAF gave an interview to the BBC recently. He stated that he was happy with the domestic deal but even he would be uncomfortable with reforming the deal regarding foreign rights, although he did say that £1.4B is not enough considering where the PL is screened. And that's coming from a manager that would obviously benefit from such reforms.
With the world economy in the state that it's in, football's bubble is going to burst soon. It can't continue to suck up money without giving something back, and the greed involved in today's game is going to have to be tempered. Personally, as a fan, I don't know how people can continue to support the team, home and away. I'm not even sure, with the way things are going, even supporting them at home is going to be an impossible thing for a lot of people.
North East attendances are falling, and it's almost certainly due to the recession and the less than satisfactory football that's being served up. People can no longer justify going to football ahead of feeding their kids and heating their home.it's time that football's chairmen woke up and smelt the coffee.
When you say the bubble is about to burst what do you mean? The current overseas tv deal expires in 2013 and the new deal is expected to be about £2 billion quid - 600 million up on the last one
Let them fuck off and play in a four man league and see if the world wants to watch them then
But then you have companies like Manchester United who have significantly more debt and a significantly smaller turnover than companies like Woolworths.
A big club will go under and the rest will follow like a pack of cards. Football is not immune to the pressures of finance, not since clubs became PLCs.
GK said:I was wondering what he meant by "the bubble is about to burst". I still don't know to be honest.
I suppose he meant that the finances powering English football are unsustainable, and greed is driving this situation to breaking point.
I was wondering what he meant by "the bubble is about to burst". I still don't know to be honest.
Well, football's finances exist in a bubble, floating over a world that is essentially skint. To maintain the bubble, football needs to secure input from outside. When that input dries up, the bubble pops. It's as simple as that. That's what I mean. Eventually, people will stop buying Sky, stop going to games, buying the merchandise and giving their hard earned cash to football.
GK said:The transfer/wages of some clubs are unsustainable but the finances behind the game are only increasing
The finances are based on gates and PPV TV audiences, both of which are in decline due to streaming. Ticket prices have already, arguably, reached a ceiling.
La Liga clubs have a huge issue in attracting sponsorship.
When? The new tv deal is increasing and that'll take us to 2016.
When the amount of money coming into football can no longer support it's 'lifestyle'. The game will implode, bloated and corrupt. It's already starting. When nobody can afford to watch football, it will mean nothing anymore. Sponsorship deals are worthless with no-one watching![]()