Liverpool threaten breakaway from Premier League's TV rights deal


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If they have their own TV rights, what happens when their opponents have their own TV rights and there is a conflict? Whose cameras will be allowed in the ground? Visiting teams contribute to the match so Liverpool cannot prevent them from having their own TV deal or should the visiting team demand half the payments received as without an opponent, Liverpool have no product to sell? Do they picture negotiating with every TV franchise in the world or would they be looking to sell exclusively to one sports channel, say ESPN for example?

The trouble with having your own TV deal is that you may find TV franchises may not include it in packages. I don't recall seeing any option for seeing live Barcelona or Real Madrid matches. Of course, the USA tends to be USA only sports centric but that's besides the point.

The only thing similar I can think of would be Notre Dame football - they have an exclusive deal with NBC for their home games so it doesn't matter who they play at home, it's on NBC. Part of that might be because they are an independent school rather than part of a conference, but I would have thought other conferences have TV deals of their own and these seem to go out of the window when one of those teams plays at ND?
 
It would be for us supporters but as our clubs are all in debt somewhere down the line our owners are relying on that TV money the likes of Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool etc bring to the table

If they did go to a Euro super league the TV deal would be lucky to be a quarter of what it is now for the rest of us and would leave numerous clubs up the financial creek without a paddle

aye the money wouldn't be as good for the rest but then again how many millions would they save if they stopped paying silly wages? Unfortunately many clubs in debt brought it on themselves unfortunately with the likes of wealthy chairman overseeing such inflated deals along with SKY/advertising money etc and it's just spiralled out of control

What some players get now is obscene as aren't the likes of Rooney/ YaYa Toure on at least £10,000,000 a year? Wasn't the average around £1.5 million for a Premiership player last year? it's obscene what they get paid and sadly the rest of the teams trying to play catch up are in debt with no real prospect of big money so it gets worse. On SAFC's turnover of £65m we paid something like £54m (83%) wages last season? and people wanted us to pay silly money to keep Bent! :lol:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/may/19/football-club-accounts-debt

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2011/05/18/sportscribddoc.pdf

have a look at the 2nd link above at Liverpool and you see the £121m wage bill they had last season! They got a £43m income from gate receipts which is £30m more than us. They also got £62m commercial compared to our £8m. Look at the other 'big clubs' and you see if the difference they' already get apart from Match Days/TV deals. It's just the rich wanting to get richer and in Liverpool's case catch up

here's an idea for a club in debt, why not just get a squad of 24 local lads who would run their heart out for a season and show more passion in one game than some current players show all season. Aye they'd probably get relegated but who knows if you picked some good players as commitment and passion are worth a few points ;). That way the club has saved at least £50 million straight away plus they get parachute payments! Then just build the team up slowly with a sensible wage structure. No doubt you'd find a gem or 2 within the squad of 24 and get back into Premiership after 1 or 2 seasons at least £100m richer! :lol:

Aye crowds would be affected but people have to realise that gate receipts are a small percentage of turnover these days. We only got £13m last season with an average of 40,000 so every 10,000 fans are just over £3m or a £60,000 a week player!

Rooney wage alone of £10m is 77% of our £13m gate receipts and 77% of 40,000 average attendance is just over 30,000 fans at SAFC! Even Bent on say £60K a week (£3m a year) would be the missing 10,000 fans. It's f***ing ridiculous but just shows how obscene the wages are and how little a paying matchday fan now means! :evil:
 
A small check indicates that Liverpool (or rather Ayre) got no support from any other club in this proposition so it´s a non story really.

But keep an eye on things like the rights for Internet content and stuff.
 
Absolutely fantastic how every single person in football has come out and shot their greedy, selfish ideas to pieces within 24 hours.

Vile club with repugnant, self-aggrandising fans who want to do things 'the Liverpool way' who believe they have a divine right to success. Fuck off.
 
A small check indicates that Liverpool (or rather Ayre) got no support from any other club in this proposition so it´s a non story really.

But keep an eye on things like the rights for Internet content and stuff.
If Guardian is to be believed MCFC were contacted and said they want to stick to collective bargaining which is to their credit. Don't want this every man for yourself policy. United were key players in the move to allow home clubs to keep all gate receipts, and the break away of the premiership from the Football League. Liverpool's move is the next step, but I am glad they seem to be on their own.

I hope they lose every game now - starting with Man United on Saturday. I hope City beat Villa and go on to win the title, but Utd can thrash and humiliate Liverpool at Anfield too.
 
If Guardian is to be believed MCFC were contacted and said they want to stick to collective bargaining which is to their credit. Don't want this every man for yourself policy. United were key players in the move to allow home clubs to keep all gate receipts, and the break away of the premiership from the Football League. Liverpool's move is the next step, but I am glad they seem to be on their own.

I hope they lose every game now - starting with Man United on Saturday. I hope City beat Villa and go on to win the title, but Utd can thrash and humiliate Liverpool at Anfield too.

Utd, Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal & Spurs were the "brains" behind both moves.
The first resulted in Liverpool having an unprecedented in English football run of success both at home and abroad. The second resulted in Utd having a similar period of domination.
Every English trophy will be Utds to lose if this comes about. The people at Liverpool obviously have no love of the game, or long term interest in Liverpool football club either, a quick bucks what their looking for.
Dalglish (like Fergurson) has sold his soul for an easy ride and a guaranteed transfer kitty to enhance his already overated reputation. Bill Shankley must be turning in his grave after reading that article.
Shame on Liverpool FC.
 
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Greed will ruin this sport.

Smacks of the wall-pushers being scared stiff of being left behind by the new 'big 4' and are waving their (stolen) hubcaps around in a hissyfit. Absolute scum.

greed already has ruined it in my view ,just a matter of.time before it goes tits up for good.
 
Read the emporers new clothes by Hans Christian Andersen and replace the devious weavers with sky, the emporer with the so called elite teams and the crowd (who are told that if they can't see how class his new clobber is then they must be stupid and ignorant) with the paying fans and sky subscribers, it basically turns into a description of the PL and it's gullible followers, the only thing is who or what will replace the little boy who sees through the bullshit and turns everyone against it??????
 
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