Bad, bad news. Sky will put up the cost of their subscriptions, tickets wont be reduced and players and agents will get even richer. DepressingI'm just waiting for the first £500k per week prem playerFootball will hopefully eat itself one day so we can somehow start again
I assume overseas rights will also add to the pot?
Quote from: Damo70 on February 10, 2015, 07:00:42 PMQuote from: kippaxvilla2 on February 10, 2015, 06:57:57 PMIf I read that correctly - BT have agreed to pay £960m for 136 games at a mere £7,058m per game. How ludicrous.If I heard/understood right the whole thing worked out to ten million a game. Like you, I was thinking I must have misheard or misunderstood.Let's put it in even more context. Either £7m or £10m for Burnley v West Brom type fixtures.
Quote from: kippaxvilla2 on February 10, 2015, 06:57:57 PMIf I read that correctly - BT have agreed to pay £960m for 136 games at a mere £7,058m per game. How ludicrous.If I heard/understood right the whole thing worked out to ten million a game. Like you, I was thinking I must have misheard or misunderstood.
If I read that correctly - BT have agreed to pay £960m for 136 games at a mere £7,058m per game. How ludicrous.
I wonder what the parachute payments will be?
The worldwide rights could well be a similar figure.Be interesting to see if any new entrants come into the market for those such as Apple or Microsoft...
It's mental, but even more important we're part of it.
Quote from: Ad@m on February 10, 2015, 06:42:49 PM....then the match-going fans really will become mere extras in a TV show.I've been thinking this for a while now.Listening to Scudamore earlier, he was saying how important the fans were to the package. He wants full grounds at televised games. Yeah, that's why games get shunted around to suit broadcasters as a matter of course.If he was serious about the fans then they'd see to it that all season card holders in the PL got Sky Sports and BT Sports free for twelve months.
....then the match-going fans really will become mere extras in a TV show.
i actually heard some cretin from the BBC say yesterday that "this is the golden-age of English football" he obviously managed to avoid the world Cup the gormless prick.