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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Tue Feb 07, 2023 4:40 pm

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Piece about the Juventus points deduction in The Athletic from James Horncastle that looks at the wider implications for the Italian game and notes that there are still other ongoing investigations going on in relation to the clubs activities

The Juventus scandal is awful for the whole of Serie A. It could be crippling
https://archive.is/DVQ8P

of course one of the key architects of the activities that have led to this situation is Fabio Paratici now Director of Football at Spurs but recently banned from Italian football - things are getting uncomfortable at Tottenham from a number of angles now.

Silent Spurs have questions to answer over Paratici
https://archive.is/Q456q
Of course we don't have to look far for another footballing Giant engulfed in scandal and again not for the first time. This latest piece from James Horncastle at The Athletic gives more detail and explains how there could be further charges and fall out to come. It will be interesting to see exactly how far the damage left in it's wake extends.

Inside the Juventus crisis: The Paratici ‘black book’, Chiellini’s WhatsApps and Ronaldo’s wages
https://archive.is/OZoYO

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Tue Feb 07, 2023 6:21 pm

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Elsewhere in the EFL is another takeover that is apparently going through the scrutiny of the Owners and Directors test - though it has to be said that hasn't really helped Morecambe in their two previous takeovers - this current one is perhaps a little more strange than even those - it was confirmed as complete subject to EFL approval this week

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footb ... roval.html

however there are real concerns about it and the prospective new owner

https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/1621431137854783489

with this thread probably being the best summary of the concerns

https://twitter.com/SSTInvesting/status ... 3463233536
More goings on relating to the prospective new owner of Morecambe that makes observers raise an eyebrow

https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/1622726642316591105

here is a fit and proper type question (this chap is currently being assessed by the EFL) - do you see an advert for a crypto investment promising 35% annual growth and think I want some of that or that is exactly the type of person who should be running my local community centred football league club

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Tue Feb 07, 2023 7:06 pm

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One of the elements of the above piece was on the growing problem of ticket touts at Chelsea - they currently have 11 individuals with injunctions served and are working on others. Today Brighton have announced that they have cracked a touting ring at the Amex - with season ticket sales and match-day attendance at modern highs here at Burnley how long before we are faced with the same issue on a regular basis. Some might think it is a nice problem for clubs to have but it really isn't. It is however more evidence that Football's Magic Money Tree (In the Premier League at least) is manifestly growing.

Albion crack ticket touting ring
More than 150 tickets in home areas were blocked for Sunday's game at the Amex against Liverpool.

https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/n ... uting-ring
It is interesting that in this report about an uplift in season ticket prices at Arsenal is the note about over 100,000 bots being prevented from buying matchday tickets - this touting game is big business

BREAKING NEWS: Premier League leaders Arsenal INCREASE their season-ticket prices by 5% - and CUT the number of games it includes from 26 to 22 - as club reveal they've blocked 100,000 bots from buying seats
Season tickets are Arsenal are being repriced - but will include four less games
Previously season ticket holders have had to pay for 26 home games up front
Arsenal believe as many as 150,000 more tickets could be available to members

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... ludes.html

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:47 am

This could get interesting - note this is not QSI (which is a State Investment fund) the owners of PSG, it appears to be more of a family thing like we see at neighbours City

Qatari investors will bid for Manchester United within DAYS and are 'confident' of blowing any competitors out of the water - and they want to hand Erik ten Hag a HUGE transfer kitty
- Manchester United are set to receive a massive offer from Qatari investors
- The group are confident the bid will blow away rivals, with Glazers seeking £6bn
- Should the takeover go through, Erik ten Hag would get a huge transfer kitty

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... -DAYS.html

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:18 am

A new blog piece from the chaps at Vysyble considers the January 2023 transfer window and the consequences of the actions of Chelsea and other Premier League clubs as the average net spend for the season passes £90m each for the Premier Leagues 20 member clubs.

25 Men went to mow a meadow
http://vysyble.com/blog-025
https://archive.is/1WPnl

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:35 pm

Following the spending of Chelsea and the charges against Manchester City and general rows across Europe about financial doping and discussions as to what is required to make the game sustainable Miguel Delaney makes the case for FFP and its variation - we all know that it's application has been flawed, but that does not mean the general principle of financial regulation it is not necessary

What would football look like without Financial Fair Play?
As Manchester City stand charged with breaching financial rules, some in the game are considering the wider implications of removing them entirely

https://archive.is/O7XjV
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foo ... 78138.html

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:55 pm

This should come as no surprise - The Premier League are said to be expecting it to be years before a final judgement is applied to the Man City case

Premier League anticipating years-long battle with Man City over FFP regulation breaches
Man City could yet drop lower than the Championship if they are expelled from the Premier League due to current EFL rules

https://archive.is/3S7cv
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foo ... 77979.html

and this tweet from Nick de Marco emphasises the likely scale of Man City's defence team

https://twitter.com/nickdemarco_/status ... 3954909184
"Delighted to see so many of my brilliant colleagues on both sides of this huge case, though wondering who will appear as my opponent in all the other big sports cases for the next 4 years 😂"

which just goes to emphasise what we all know - there are a lot of lawyers who are going to get very well paid out of this

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:40 pm

finally got round to listening to this - very much worth a listen if you want to understand how much has been going on in the background

Why the Premier League are going to war with Manchester City
The Athletic Football Podcast

https://podfollow.com/1488521447/episod ... d1c7d/view

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 08, 2023 2:06 pm

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this is an interesting follow-up on the Leeds takeover from The Athletic - note also that like almost every, not just American, takeover in football, 49ers Enterprises is a consortium not a family.

Leeds, Radrizzani and 49ers sale: A tale of revenue, reluctance and relegation threat
https://archive.is/v0bbe
fascinating podcast from the Athletic looking at the Leeds takeover situation - arrogance or naivety given that relegation was not factored into the pricing equation - of course we appear to have seen that at our club too

Leeds’ power struggle: Radrizzani, 49ers Enterprisers and who chooses Marsch’s successor?
The Athletic Football Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l ... 0598653177

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:20 pm

The fact that English football is able to support effectively 5 professional leagues comprising of 116 clubs has always been something of an anomaly in world football. The Spanish made a move to go from 40 (including B teams) to 80 eighteen months ago - however things have proven more challenging than expected and there is a bit of an internal dispute going on, that could see the expansion collapse.

Spanish third tier on brink of collapse as federation and club fallout continues
- Primera Federación could be abandoned after just 18 months
- Clubs told to fall in line with financial rules or risk losing funding

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -continues

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Post by Chester Perry » Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:16 am

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Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:55 pm
This should come as no surprise - The Premier League are said to be expecting it to be years before a final judgement is applied to the Man City case

Premier League anticipating years-long battle with Man City over FFP regulation breaches
Man City could yet drop lower than the Championship if they are expelled from the Premier League due to current EFL rules

https://archive.is/3S7cv
https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foo ... 77979.html

and this tweet from Nick de Marco emphasises the likely scale of Man City's defence team

https://twitter.com/nickdemarco_/status ... 3954909184
"Delighted to see so many of my brilliant colleagues on both sides of this huge case, though wondering who will appear as my opponent in all the other big sports cases for the next 4 years 😂"

which just goes to emphasise what we all know - there are a lot of lawyers who are going to get very well paid out of this
this piece in the Telegraph yesterday, referred to in that tweet by Nick de Marco, gives a useful insight into the legal teams that will be squaring up against one another as this case runs it's course (and like they have a on a number of occasions already during the investigative period

Manchester City hire lawyer who earns as much as Erling Haaland for Premier League battle
Forget Pep Guardiola v Mikel Arteta, the real showdown to watch will be the clash between two legal teams of the highest quality

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... premier%2F

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Post by Chester Perry » Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:20 pm

It is always interesting to get an outside view of what is going on in English football, the difference in cultural perspective can be challenging and that is always a useful thing - This piece at Forbes.com runs with a number of up to the minute issues but addresses a wider malaise while seeking to point to the merits of a US cultural perspective.

Self-Interested Premier League Action Against Manchester City Proves Need For Regulation
https://archive.is/F8mzc

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Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:54 am

As we have repeatedly witnessed, football has a magic money tree, so it is inevitable that people of less scrupulous morals would seek to find a way to take some for themselves, we have also witnessed that football is a drain on personal wealth for many owners so much so that they regularly find themselves desperately trying to sell. Unfortunately football also has a notorious reputation for lacking in the necessary due diligence on the people/organisations they get involved with. This is where the opportunists step in, far to frequently.

The Athletic with the tale of one such fraudster Henry Mauriss

The FBI, a Rolling Stone and the ‘billionaire’ US fraudster who almost bought two football clubs
https://archive.is/yM5OC

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 11:05 am

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Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:54 am
As we have repeatedly witnessed, football has a magic money tree, so it is inevitable that people of less scrupulous morals would seek to find a way to take some for themselves, we have also witnessed that football is a drain on personal wealth for many owners so much so that they regularly find themselves desperately trying to sell. Unfortunately football also has a notorious reputation for lacking in the necessary due diligence on the people/organisations they get involved with. This is where the opportunists step in, far to frequently.

The Athletic with the tale of one such fraudster Henry Mauriss

The FBI, a Rolling Stone and the ‘billionaire’ US fraudster who almost bought two football clubs
https://archive.is/yM5OC
This article includes an interesting little bit on how MSD's early thinking in the football marketplace evolved, particularly note the impact of a second relegation and that a first does not necessarily require a capital reduction payment

"Mauriss’ proposed takeover of Newcastle was laced with risk, as his proposal included a draft document with MSD Partners for a £150m loan which included interest rates of 7.5 per cent per annum, rising to 8.5 per cent in the event of relegation to the Championship and defaulting altogether in League One."

also the lists of those professional organisations taken in by Mauriss show just what a minefield selling a club that is benefitting from the Premier League revenues is.

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:38 pm

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Wed Feb 08, 2023 12:47 am
This could get interesting - note this is not QSI (which is a State Investment fund) the owners of PSG, it appears to be more of a family thing like we see at neighbours City

Qatari investors will bid for Manchester United within DAYS and are 'confident' of blowing any competitors out of the water - and they want to hand Erik ten Hag a HUGE transfer kitty
- Manchester United are set to receive a massive offer from Qatari investors
- The group are confident the bid will blow away rivals, with Glazers seeking £6bn
- Should the takeover go through, Erik ten Hag would get a huge transfer kitty

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... -DAYS.html
The Times are reporting that there are at least 5 serious bidders for Manchester United all willing to pay £5 billion or more - could this really turn into a beauty parade like we saw at Chelsea?

At least five bidders ready to meet £5bn price for Manchester United
https://archive.is/0lkxH

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Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 1:55 pm

UEFA reveals its annual report on the football club Landscape

https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/02 ... pe-report/

the full report can be found here

https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/02 ... ution_.pdf

needless to say it is making headlines and Aleksander Ceferin is keen for clubs to rein in their costs (is he looking at the Premier League or those trying to keep up)

UEFA warns clubs against overspending in ‘reckless pursuit of success’
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says many clubs are ‘compromising their economic sustainability’.

https://archive.is/CNcws

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Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:53 pm

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More goings on relating to the prospective new owner of Morecambe that makes observers raise an eyebrow

https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/1622726642316591105

here is a fit and proper type question (this chap is currently being assessed by the EFL) - do you see an advert for a crypto investment promising 35% annual growth and think I want some of that or that is exactly the type of person who should be running my local community centred football league club
Once @UglyGame (Martin Calladine) gets the scent of something he doesn't let go - here he is with more disturbing info surrounding Sarb Capital and 'Crypto' Investments - you have to say it looks like Sarbjot Johal should be let nowhere near Morecambe FC or any other football club

https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/1624055249840267267

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Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:35 pm

Spurs announce their 2021/22 financial results - just a cheeky little £61m pre tax loss on a revenue of £443m (up from £361m the year before) contains a surprisingly low matchday income of £106m which is more or less what we got in TV monies- perhaps Javier Tebas is right about the Premier League -

https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2 ... june-2022/

Kieran Maguire has had a quick dive
https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/statu ... 1394050048

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by RVclaret » Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:54 pm

https://www.skysports.com/football/news ... -ea-sports

More money incoming for the PL… EA sports and the PL strike a new deal worth double the previous one.

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Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 6:01 pm

RVclaret wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 5:54 pm
https://www.skysports.com/football/news ... -ea-sports

More money incoming for the PL… EA sports and the PL strike a new deal worth double the previous one.
Commercial Income like this is shared equally between the Premier League members each season so that would be an extra £4m or so each next year if the deal is signed off.

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 9:29 pm

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It is interesting that in this report about an uplift in season ticket prices at Arsenal is the note about over 100,000 bots being prevented from buying matchday tickets - this touting game is big business

BREAKING NEWS: Premier League leaders Arsenal INCREASE their season-ticket prices by 5% - and CUT the number of games it includes from 26 to 22 - as club reveal they've blocked 100,000 bots from buying seats
Season tickets are Arsenal are being repriced - but will include four less games
Previously season ticket holders have had to pay for 26 home games up front
Arsenal believe as many as 150,000 more tickets could be available to members

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... ludes.html
A report from the BBC about the problem of ticket touts in the Premier League

Premier League: Ticket touting a 'significant and rising' problem
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64497260

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Post by Chester Perry » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:40 pm

A tale of corruption in Chinese Football with an ex Everton player at it's centre

CHINESE FOOTBALL CORRUPTION REPORT
Detention of ex-Everton Star Li Tie Sparks Biggest Government Crackdown in a Decade

https://chinasportsinsider.com/2023/02/ ... on-report/

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by NewClaret » Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:48 pm

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Fri Feb 10, 2023 6:01 pm
Commercial Income like this is shared equally between the Premier League members each season so that would be an extra £4m or so each next year if the deal is signed off.
CP - pretty sure I’m right in saying that improved commercial deals have come in to force recently. If we were to go up, do you know how much better off we would be comparative to the season we were relegated? i.e. what our additional revenue would be?

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Post by Chester Perry » Sat Feb 11, 2023 1:25 am

FIFA publish their International arket snapshot for the JAnuary 2023 window

overview
https://www.fifa.com/legal/media-releas ... time-highs

full report
https://digitalhub.fifa.com/m/428273e7e ... y-2023.pdf

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Post by Chester Perry » Sat Feb 11, 2023 1:49 am

NewClaret wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:48 pm
CP - pretty sure I’m right in saying that improved commercial deals have come in to force recently. If we were to go up, do you know how much better off we would be comparative to the season we were relegated? i.e. what our additional revenue would be?
There are a few things there - The TV deal framework is in a new cycle which has seen the base equal share of the international rights increase by around £5m (Domestic earnings are flat) and that has added a bit to the merit payment as well - all in all the lowest payment is now reckoned to be around £103m - £106m (previous cycle circa £96m) we got £106.1m last season (the same as Spurs earned in matchday income).

Theoretically the new commercial deals we have heard about if they all come on line could add another £5m - £8m to that number then there is the money from parachute payments not paid that gets split equally between the 20 - So that would be £34m if we go up and the same if Watford or Norwich go up, There would also be £15m in the pot if Sheffield Utd go up - so there is the possibility of another £2.5m - £4m there

So in theory if it all came to pass you can see bottom place in the Premier League next season paying around £112m+ and around £119m for 17th assuming no additional TV appearance revenues

There are some potential spoilers to this particularly the Premier Leagues 'New Deal' for football and when it is likely to be introduced - it could be as soon as next season and as yet we do not know what impact that will have on central distributions and parachute payments - i suspect the first thing to go will be the retained parachute payments from clubs promoted back to the Premier League. Though other monies may be involved as well which will affect the central distribution payments.

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Post by Chester Perry » Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:39 am

I an not sure why this has taken so long to get noticed

Uefa sounds alarm over risks of multi-club ownership model
Trend of owners with stakes in multiple football clubs could damage game’s integrity, warns governing body

https://archive.is/UEeqa

I mean it has been obvious for quite some time now and is happening at a much more frequent rate - as this thread bares testament too - still the leader of this model is carrying on unabated - with Club number 11 (or is it 12) about to enter the fold - you have to say that this revised structure of the Brazilian league is attracting an awful lot of overseas investment/opportunism

Man City 'are set to buy ANOTHER club by adding Brazilian outfit EC Bahia to its list of teams'
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... teams.html

Of course Manchester City are facing charges that are effectively accusing them of fraud - the charges indicate the games authorities are starting to impose more strict management of the financial regulations so what will this do to the investment into the game and the Premier League in particular - The Financial Times today had this to say

Premier League vs City: implications for investors
https://archive.is/nyCRu
Without warning — or even a press release — the long running legal wrangle between the Premier League and Manchester City blew up this week. The world’s richest football league accused the sport’s wealthiest club of breaking financial rules over a number of years, and then refusing to co-operate with the ensuing four-year investigation.

City, which denies wrongdoing, has been here before. It reached a settlement with Uefa over similar allegations in 2014, and was then given a two-year ban from the Champions League in 2020 — a decision that was later overturned.

All this comes at a crucial moment for the Premier League, with a new independent football regulator due to be unveiled soon, against the backdrop of two of England’s biggest clubs — Manchester United and Liverpool — up for sale. For would-be buyers, what are the implications of the Premier League’s charges against the English champions?

Investors backed by sovereign wealth, like the Saudi fund that owns Newcastle, might wonder if new financial guardrails in the form of more aggressive enforcement will make their lofty ambitions harder to achieve. Uefa’s new financial sustainability rules, due to come in next season, should also blunt the ability of super-wealthy owners to funnel cash into their teams.
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But for professional investors — such as US private equity — the idea that economic restraint might be coming to the Premier League could be enticing. The league’s revenue has soared over the past decade thanks to bumper broadcast deals and lucrative sponsorship. But costs have gone up just as fast, in the form of transfer fees and player wages.

Any sign that football’s inflation problem is being tamed could transform the economics of elite football. A push to enforce existing financial rules — as seen this week by the Premier League — would be a start.
“I would expect investors to welcome it to a certain extent”, said Stephen Taylor Heath, head of sports law at JMW Solicitors. “It may potentially encourage people to invest in Premier League clubs if they know it’s going to be properly regulated.”

Others think a lot more would need to happen for costs to stop rising. Dariusz Mioduski, president of Legia Warsaw, complains that all the extra money coming into the game still goes straight back out in wages and agents’ fees.

“Until there are some concepts like a salary cap, this is a spiral that has no end,” he says.
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All of the above raises questions about what is the future of our game, particularly at the highest level. Last summer at a sports conference (which seem to proliferate with increasing regularity) called 'Playing the Game' a session addressed this very question - There are a number of speakers each given 10-15 minutes each and while being hugely informative it is somewhat depressing, even though it is just a purer essence of what has been detailed in this thread over its lifetime. The first speaker is Nick Harris (better known as @SportingIntel) who details his experiences following the Abu Dhabi/Man City story since 2011 (from 12:54 in)

Play the Game 2022 - Billionaires and breakaways: Is that the future of football?
https://vimeo.com/721879685

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Sun Feb 12, 2023 10:08 pm

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As you would expect there has been an awful lot said about the Manchester City charges in the last 30 hours or so, I have found these particularly more interesting than most
This from yesterday is essential reading in understanding the charges (all 115 of them)


Miguel Delaney in the Independent

‘Going to war with the champions’: Why the Premier League is taking on Man City, and what comes next
The Premier League now faces the ultimate test of itself in a pivotal moment for the game

https://archive.is/MaHpG

This Sport unlocked podcast with Rob Harris, Tariq Panja and Martyn Zeigler is worth a listen for some of the old history that is feeding into all this and perhaps most notably a passing reference why the Premier League made the announcement in the way it did - it all points to the Premier League wanting to scrupulously follow its own rules so the legions of lawyers that City will inevitably employ have few technical issues with which to stop or overthrow proceedings.

Manchester City charged: The Premier League's financial wrongdoing case against the Premier League champions explained & analysed. What the commission will assess & potential actions against the club
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m ... 0598356372

Panja's own piece for the New York Times misses that point but provides plenty of historical context

Manchester City Charged With Years of Financial Violations
The Premier League accused City of breaking rules related to revenues, sponsorships and contracts. One potential penalty is expulsion from the league.

https://archive.is/PNov7

Simon Chadwick has, over the years, repeatedly pointed out that there huge cultural differences in the way these issues are resolve in the East and West - quite often when it came to UEFA and their clashes with PSF and City - in the end they always seemed to be resolved in the Eastern way for the most part - here is Chadwick again following the revelation of the charges against Manchester City and he remains consistent in his view

https://twitter.com/Prof_Chadwick/statu ... 8743365632

none of that thread from Chadwick will be of surprise long time readers of Footballs Magic Money Tree and it is interesting that there is already plenty of articles across the media about titles not being taken away. So, what we are likely to see is an outcome where the disgust of fans (and their desired retribution) will be the last of the considerations.

There are other issues and questions that feed into this whole process and will need answering at some point (as this piece by Barney Ronay in the Guardian clearly illustrates), but not by this cases proceedings

If Manchester City are guilty they have betrayed football as a spectacle
https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... -spectacle
https://archive.is/iAHle

the vested interests, many not directly involved in English football will spend a lot of time trying to make their grievances heard as this case progresses at a pace that many will complain is too slow - but the Premier League have only one chance to get this right if they are not to be defeated on technicalities. Whatever the outcome what is really needed is a clear judgement on the merits of the cases and evidence presented, Such an outcome has greater opportunity purely because the procedural issues that collapsed the UEFA case at CAS are not relevant under the operations, rules and by-laws of the Premier League.
It appears that City's lawyers have already been gifted a few technicalities to play with - oh the perils of changing the organisational structure of your rulebook on a regular basis

REVEALED: The Premier League were forced to correct multiple errors in their charges against Man City with SIX of their alleged breaches relating to inconsequential rules
The Premier League listed more than 100 rules they accused City of breaching
However, they have since been forced to correct multiple errors in the statement
This included errors which alleged breaches relating to TV scheduling rules

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... -City.html

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Post by RVclaret » Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:42 am

https://swissramble.substack.com/p/manc ... he-premier

The brilliant and easy to read Swiss Ramble on the City situation.

As an aside to the charges, I didn't realise just how lucrative the Champions League was, TV money wise. They earn 100m a year just through CL TV revenue (if they make it to the quarters and beyond), that's not to mention prize money from UEFA and ticketing revenue etc.

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Post by Chester Perry » Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:06 pm

RVclaret wrote:
Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:42 am
https://swissramble.substack.com/p/manc ... he-premier

The brilliant and easy to read Swiss Ramble on the City situation.

As an aside to the charges, I didn't realise just how lucrative the Champions League was, TV money wise. They earn 100m a year just through CL TV revenue (if they make it to the quarters and beyond), that's not to mention prize money from UEFA and ticketing revenue etc.
I have been arguing for years that the greatest disruptor and financial imbalance in football are the Champions League payments, which themselves are greatly imbalanced by the coefficient payment within them, not parachute payments which are there in part to mitigate the distortion for non champions league participants. I have also long pointed out that any Independent Football Regulator in the UK cannot exert any influence over changing this level of distortion.

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Post by Chester Perry » Mon Feb 13, 2023 1:08 pm

A long piece in today's Financial Times about something I have been posting about for years now

How English football became the real Super League
After an onslaught of spending on new players, the Premier League is starting to resemble a de facto European super league

https://archive.is/Ojtfw

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Post by Chester Perry » Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:19 pm

Not a surprise, but provides ammunition for those who argue that UEFA should not be a competition organiser as well as its regulator - the ensuing attempts at a cover-up by UEFA and the French Police were nothing but shameful

Uefa had ‘primary responsibility’ for Champions League final chaos, damning report finds-
- Uefa review says Liverpool and Real Madrid fans could have died
- French police, football federation and ministers also criticised

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... are_btn_tw

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Post by Chester Perry » Tue Feb 14, 2023 12:36 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:19 pm
Not a surprise, but provides ammunition for those who argue that UEFA should not be a competition organiser as well as its regulator - the ensuing attempts at a cover-up by UEFA and the French Police were nothing but shameful

Uefa had ‘primary responsibility’ for Champions League final chaos, damning report finds-
- Uefa review says Liverpool and Real Madrid fans could have died
- French police, football federation and ministers also criticised

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... are_btn_tw
Here is the full report of UEFA's Independent investigation that shames UEFA so much

https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/02 ... 194627.pdf

appendix
https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/02 ... pendix.pdf

The fact that UEFA appointed such an independent body should be recognised as good thing, what UEFA (and the French FA have done to block out information since is far more questionable

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Post by Chester Perry » Tue Feb 14, 2023 1:23 pm

Matt Slater for the Athletic with some interesting background on the relationship between the two most politically influential clubs in Europe at the moment - holding the top two seats at the ECA (an organisation that is not as democratic as it likes to make it self out to be - it is still the old G14 clubs that hold most of the voting power) and seats in UEFA's Executive council. they also stepped away from Super League shortly before it was announced, having been part of the discussions for years

Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich: A complicated relationship – but growing closer
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Post by Chester Perry » Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:03 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:03 pm
while Blades fans are concerned about the takeover the aspect that most focussed their attention was the prospect of an 18 month transfer ban - which could play havoc if they are promoted

Report: Sheffield United facing 18-month transfer ban as takeover hangs in balance
https://www.sheffieldunited.news/news/s ... r-held-up/
Given everything that is going on around Sheffield United (finances and takeover stories) it is interesting that last week they issued £27.6m in new shares - could be a debt to equity swap

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Post by Chester Perry » Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:30 pm

Seems our friends down the road are looking for new ways to drive income out of the land they own at Ewood - though there is little in the way of detail yet - I am sure a few posters here could offer suggestions to them

https://www.pegasusgroup.co.uk/projects ... asterplan/

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:07 pm

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Thu Feb 02, 2023 12:16 am
So we have read today about complaints particularly emanating from Spain and La Liga about the 'financial doping' in the Premier League - and to be honest i have some sympathy

Here is another report on what was said - this from the Guardian

La Liga chief attacks Premier League ‘doped market’ as Europe is left behind
- English top-flight clubs set new January record at £815m
- Chelsea outspend total of all clubs in other ‘big five’ leagues

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... pe-la-liga

but then you remember the Spanish clubs are legendary for charging away fans in European ties outrageous sums - in contravention of the spirit of UEFA's rules

Of course they don't just do it to foreigners - look at this twitter thread to understand why Real Betis v Barcelona tonight saw 12,000 empty seats in what was the biggest match of the day in Spain - we know football is expensive in this country but these prices are just outrageous

https://twitter.com/Millar_Colin/status ... 0455147537
the pricing of match tickets in Spanish football is notorious - so it is no wonder that only between 9,000 and 10,000 of the Barcelona’s season-ticket holders attended more than 85% of matches and the rest sell them on. To my mind it goes a long way to explaining a problem that Barcelona created for themselves and are handling in this cack-handed way

Barcelona’s ban on opposition colours and their fear of another Camp Nou takeover
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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:51 pm

An absolutely fascinating discussion on The Athletic Football Podcast yesterday particularly given recent comparisons on this board between our current and previous ownership - this one in particular http://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboar ... =2&t=67458 but also the takeover thread

Liverpool, Man United, Qatar & What makes a good Premier League owner?
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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 1:17 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Wed Feb 15, 2023 12:51 pm
An absolutely fascinating discussion on The Athletic Football Podcast yesterday particularly given recent comparisons on this board between our current and previous ownership - this one in particular http://www.uptheclarets.com/messageboar ... =2&t=67458 but also the takeover thread

Liverpool, Man United, Qatar & What makes a good Premier League owner?
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l ... 0599589959
Following on from this is a warning to United fans about just what a Qatari ownership (for all its wealth and investment) can do to a club as it looks to exploit branding and excitement for 'big eventers' (a customer class I keep reading a lot about at the moment - none of it not good for sporting teams and their fans) and not build a football team in the way Abu Dhabi have done with City and Saudi appear to be doing at Newcastle.

Sportswashing billions can’t stop circus act PSG slipping into farce
PSG 0-1 Bayern Munich: Kingsley Coman scored the only goal but PSG’s performance was farcical

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fw ... 82362.html

Of course Manchester United fans are well aware of these pitfalls as was shown by MUST Chairman Duncan Drasdo when he spoke last November about how football club sales should proceed - though even then this beauty parade/auction approach has its failings too.

MUST chief Duncan Drasdo says Chelsea sale process should become the norm
https://archive.is/Bkkzp

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:06 pm

Aston Villa join the multi-club party with a stake in Portuguese side Vittoria - this could just be about a gateway to Brazilian talent

https://twitter.com/CIESsportsintel
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this graphic of the number of European clubs by country involved in multi-club structures is telling
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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:19 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 6:03 pm
Given everything that is going on around Sheffield United (finances and takeover stories) it is interesting that last week they issued £27.6m in new shares - could be a debt to equity swap

https://twitter.com/KieranMaguire/statu ... 3cho8tAAAA
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As Dozy Mmobuosi attempts to diffuse 'misunderstandings about his attempted takeover of Sheffield United

POTENTIAL SHEFFIELD UNITED OWNER DOZY MMOBUOSI ADDRESSES MISCONCEPTIONS AMID TAKEOVER
https://onefootball.com/es/noticias/pot ... r-36759319

the EFL says - you need to do better than that lad - are we to believe that lessons have finally be learned at the EFL?

https://www.efl.com/news/2023/february/ ... ld-united/

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Post by RVclaret » Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:44 pm

Interesting graphic showing the CL estimated distributions at the R16 stage we are at.
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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:49 pm

RVclaret wrote:
Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:44 pm
Interesting graphic showing the CL estimated distributions at the R16 stage we are at.
do you now see what I have been saying about those co-efficient payments distorting earnings?

though there is a similar argument about Market pool in some countries

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Chester Perry wrote:
Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:49 pm
do you now see what I have been saying about those co-efficient payments distorting earnings?
Yup!

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:35 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Mon Sep 12, 2022 4:17 pm
Interesting times at Norwich, as discussions about a new investor (buying shares of shareholders who wanted the club to agree the sale and who to). This is a story that has been knocking around for some months now - the proposed new shareholder is a billionaire - it is not for a majority shareholding but you get the feeling it is about trying each other on for size - Delia Smith and her husband are not getting any younger and succession needs to happen at some stage

Explained: What City shareholders will vote on this evening
https://www.pinkun.com/sport/norwich-ci ... er-9267296

This in the Athletic from some weeks back gives you the background

Norwich City: Mark Attanasio’s potential investment and what happens next
https://archive.ph/uunny

All quite different to the way our club was sold - perhaps lessons have been learned - and significantly it is not the major shareholders selling. It still appears a very unified board at Norwich
Another Shareholder vote on Monday evening looks like it will end up meaning Mark Attanasio will become the major shareholder of Norwich City - at least when he exercises the options of his 'C' Shares

Norwich City: Football club confirms shares made available
https://archive.is/YPVSd

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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 7:44 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:54 am
As we have repeatedly witnessed, football has a magic money tree, so it is inevitable that people of less scrupulous morals would seek to find a way to take some for themselves, we have also witnessed that football is a drain on personal wealth for many owners so much so that they regularly find themselves desperately trying to sell. Unfortunately football also has a notorious reputation for lacking in the necessary due diligence on the people/organisations they get involved with. This is where the opportunists step in, far to frequently.

The Athletic with the tale of one such fraudster Henry Mauriss

The FBI, a Rolling Stone and the ‘billionaire’ US fraudster who almost bought two football clubs
https://archive.is/yM5OC
the list of those who try to get into English football and are then investigated by the FBI contimues to grow - Craig Kirchner was quickly dismissed by the Hemmings family at Preston, Mel Morris and Quantuma (the Administrators at Derby County) went much, much further down the line - too far in reality - with him too

FBI Raids Home Of Former CEO Of Goldman Sachs-Backed Tech Company Slync
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Post by Chester Perry » Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:35 pm

A lot of the detail in this article for Law in Sport has been posted on this thread before - this just acts as a consolidator of that information - interesting how it gives credence to Florentino Perez's justification for the Super League and some of the other things he wants to do to the game
https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/ ... references

Why Evolving Consumption Habits May Change Football’s Broadcasting Model

08 February 2023 By Daniel Geey, Nii Anteson

Florentino Perez and countless other football administrators believe the game needs to change to cater for changing viewing habits and shortened attention spans1. Many believe it’s more nuanced than that. Whilst we certainly have more distractions readily and constantly available to us, with endless social media streams, instant messages and email at our fingertips on mobile phones, tablets and other screens, young people are regularly spending hours on YouTube, Tiktok, Fortnite, Netflix, Roblox and plenty of other platforms.

It’s not that their attention spans are necessarily shortening; it’s that there are so many platforms competing for finite attention. There is much more digital competition for our attention than there ever used to be. That’s why the idea that football needs to protect its 3pm Saturday games by using the blackout period feels somewhat ‘1990s’ right now. Live football isn’t so unique that televised football content remains is its only competitor or substitute. Fans are multi-tasking and multi-screening. Fans can watch a game at a stadium whilst streaming YouTube, accessing TikTok or even watching another match. With mobile devices, it’s not an either/or approach anymore. In the face of this challenge, the question is how football continues to adapt in order to remain relevant.

With the development of the entertainment industry and the spread of technology, this article examines the broadcasting landscape in football and the potential models for rights holders, such as the Premier League, to better commercialise and monetise their rights.

It looks at:

Football Might Be Competing With Video Games For Eyeballs

Rights Rationale and PremFlix

Attention x Rights Fees

Football Might Be Competing With Video Games For Eyeballs
In one of his seminal articles, Matthew Ball explained that:

“Fortnite was Netflix’s most threatening competitor (which CEO Reed Hastings said in his investor letter a month later). This is most plainly understood as the idea that everyone is competing for finite attention and there are more applications for this attention than ever before. But the real challenge for Hollywood is that for decades, whenever “leisure” won over “work”, TV was the primary beneficiary. In recent years, the leisure decision has changed or “moved up” a level. It used to be “what to watch” and now it’s “whether to watch” – and the answer is increasingly “no, I’m going to play a game”.2

Football and sport and every other content business is competing for attention and that competition is getting even stronger. Football is competing with Fortnite, not (just) other OTT platforms like Amazon Prime, Disney, Discovery etc. Many believe that football, the EPL, the WSL, the Champions Leagues and the EFL are competing in a significantly broader digital attention economy. It’s wider than football, sport, streaming and gaming. It means to many that restricting the televising of 3pm kick-offs in the UK feels rather antiquated.

There must be more innovative ways to engage fans than to block high quality access to the product. It feels like music’s equivalent to the Napster file sharing moment where people were illegally sharing and downloading music because there wasn’t a quality, accessible, affordable alternative, and then Apple music and Spotify et al showed up. For some time, decoder boxes showing foreign TV pictures of EPL games were endemic (especially in pubs); it’s now streaming’s turn. It appears relatively straightforward to find a streaming link to watch a 3pm game. The real jeopardy is being caught illegally streaming (because the rights holder is not receiving compensation), downloading a virus or the poor quality of the stream.

It leads to other more nuanced questions around whether the EFL or the WSL should be allowed to show games at 3pm rather than have to make do with the slots outside the EPL live weekend window (11:30 on a Saturday morning and 6:30 on a Sunday evening)? The UK is the outlier here. Only England, Scotland and Montenegro take advantage of UEFA’s blackout provisions.

To understand more about the black-out rule in football in the UK, please see this article on LawInSport3.

Rights Rationale And PremFlix
The EPL collective deal is still alive and well with the rolled-over Sky, BT Sport (soon to be Discovery) and Amazon deal worth £4.8bn over three years4. The EPL’s six-year US TV deal has been valued at more than £2bn5. To read more about the Premier League’s rights rollover, please see this article on LawInSport6.

The Athletic recently explained:

“Even with no growth in the domestic market, the Premier League was able to increase the value of its international rights by 30 per cent for the 2022-25 cycle. That takes the league’s central income from £9.2billion to £10.5billion over three years, and it means the Premier League’s share of the global media market for domestic football leagues grew from 40 per cent to 44 per cent.”7

Sky historically bought EPL rights as the battering ram to launch and sustain their pay-tv offering. BT Sport bought EPL and UCL rights (in part) to reduce their broadband customers leaving to take up Sky’s broadband and pay-tv packaged deal. It’s been suggested that Amazon has bought EPL and recently UCL rights to acquire and retain Amazon Prime customers, who reportedly spend four times more with Amazon than non-Prime customers. The Pay-Tv landscape has evolved significantly. The subscription model has evolved although Sky, BT Sport and Amazon continue to cluster around EPL and UCL rights with a variety of different commercialisation models.

But how long:

· will the EPL continue to sell and provide all of its games to broadcasters and

· before the EPL decide to do some experimenting and go direct to customer?

The answer is that it appears to be in the offing.

Richard Masters in a recent interview explained:

“We have sold all of our international rights to third parties. In other words, we’ve licensed them as opposed to going direct to the consumer. However, we do have — and I can’t reveal where in the world — options to do various things. We’ve probably signed more long-term partnerships than usual – six-year agreements instead of three-year agreements – and there are options in some of those agreements to go direct to consumer in the name of the Premier League.”8

The EPL isn’t going to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs but it may test the waters in particular lower risk jurisdictions working alongside production and distribution partners, potentially by-passing traditional broadcasters to connect directly with customers through a PremFlix style streaming platform. TalkSport presenter and ex-Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan was rather bullish on the value of any such deal but explained the core rationale here9.

Interestingly, it was reported in The Athletic recently that the EPL in 2019 was pushing forward with a direct-to-consumer EPL streaming service in Singapore but did not get the required support amongst its club members10.

As seen through the Project Big Picture (PBP) proposals, the EPL clubs were looking to experiment with direct to fan EPL offerings by carving-out particular fixtures from the collectively negotiated EPL deal to separately and in parallel monetise11. So, for example, the EPL would continue to sell their defined packages of games to the broadcasters. However, additional games that fall outside of the package would be sold directly by the clubs such as Liverpool and Manchester United presumably via their OTT streaming platforms.

Attention X Rights Fees
There are currently no EPL and UCL live games available free to air in the UK (discounting the limited Prime EPL and soon to be UCL offering, to the extent that Prime can be considered free). There have been generations of young people growing up without easy access to live premium football content. In the UK, it’s been eight years since ITV broadcast the last free-to-air UCL live matches and it’s 30+ years since EPL matches were moved behind a paywall. Does that matter? To many, it does. As set out above, many believe the EPL and UEFA are not narrowly competing in a broadcasting market with other football leagues or sports for live rights. They are competing for attention with Fortnite, Facebook, League of Legends, FIFA and Dota as well as Disney+ and Netflix. If the content is difficult to access (because its live matches have been historically behind packaged paywalls) and video streaming and some gaming platforms are more easily accessible, sociable, innovative, addictive and attention retentive, many will see the greater engagement with the latter as consumers voting with their attention habits.

Both authors were (positively) sucked in by football in the 1980s and 1990s because content was easily accessible primarily on terrestrial tv. Whilst broadcasters will no doubt be aiming to monetise older, middle-aged generations, the question remains whether younger, premium sports subscribers are turning up at scale. Presumably this is one of the dilemma’s facing pay-tv operators as they appeal to younger generations with streamlined OTT offerings like Sky’s Now TV. The fundamental issue isn’t really with the broadcasters; it’s the strategy of rights holders to decide where to put their premium rights. Broadcasters will pay the high rights fees so long as the subscribers are drawn in and retained. If there isn’t the subscriber long-tail, then the market is signalling to the broadcasters that the premium content isn’t so premium.

This is perhaps why UEFA put the Women’s UCL onto DAZN’s YouTube channel to give it scope, breadth and relatively frictionless visibility. In the same way, at least a number of WSL games in the UK are shown free to air on the BBC. It was reported that 3.6 million viewers watched the most recent UCL final between Barcelona-Olympique Lyon and that the 61 matches in that year’s tournament brought 64m views12. Some believe this blended approach needs to be given real consideration for premium men’s football.

With pay-walls dominating the premium men’s football landscape, some may argue that the generation of 35-45-year olds may be the last ones that remember live top flight English football on terrestrial tv. What if kids aren’t watching live matches but are gaming, YouTubing and accessing open platforms and free content? The football watching routine becomes less sticky, less ‘must watch’ and less of a ‘pay-tv battering ram’. Sky and others will only pay the rights fees if people are subscribing. The EPL may not wish to dilute their exclusive rights by putting some matches free to air but by not doing so, they potentially run the continued risk of not capturing current generational attention.

Conclusion
The easy narrative is that younger generations’ attention is more limited; we’re not so sure. People are spending plenty of concentrated hours on FIFA, Fortnite, Twitch or YouTube. It’s the ease by which their attention can be grabbed, harnessed and maintained.

Whilst this may be medium/long term thinking, the overarching point is that as younger generations may be less attracted to live sport because they perhaps have not been drawn in at a younger age and have a broader set of consumption habits, future content platforms may not value such rights holder content as highly. If future live football is not as ‘must have’ as it was previously, then there will be a recalibration on the value of such rights. It may not be any time soon, but if subscribers reduce for whatever reasons, e.g., the cost-of-living crisis[3] or the content not being as attractive, pay-tv companies may not have the appetite and deep pockets to keep funding such huge rights rounds.

Which as explained above, leaves the next big question around different company’s models to monetisation. Traditional pay-tv was bundled with mobile, broadband and phoneline for quad-play offerings. Amazon Prime sees sports rights as a customer acquisition and retention tool for its Prime physical product delivery service. Who continues to pay sports rights holders mega money if subscribers aren’t there in the same numbers?

Part of the answer is already creeping into focus. Leagues will likely experiment with direct-to-consumer offerings in particular isolated territories to start (Premflix) and so will clubs (see the Project Big Picture structuring where 8 games per season were proposed to be individually sold outside of the EPL collective deal).

References
1† Alex Kirkland & Rodrigo Faez, ‘Real Madrid president Perez: Football matches could be shortened’, ESPN, published on 20 April 2021, https://www.espn.in/football/real-madri ... -shortened (last accessed 6 February 2023)

2† Matthew Ball, ‘7 Reasons Why Video Gaming Will Take Over’, MatthewBall.vc, published on 4 January 2020, https://www.matthewball.vc/all/7reasonsgaming (last accessed 6 February 2023)

3† Alex Haffner, Thomas Edwards, Daniel King, ‘What Is The "Black-Out" Rule In Football And Is It Lawful?’, LawInSport, published on 6 October 2021, https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/ ... -it-lawful (last accessed 6 February 2023)

4† Mark Sweney, ‘Premier League renews £4.8bn TV deal with extra £100m trickle-down funds’, The Guardian, published on 13 May 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... and-amazon (last accessed 6 February 2023)

5† Matt Slater & Felipe Cardenas, ‘Premier League agrees new six-year US TV deal worth more than £2 billion’, The Athletic, published on 19 November 2021, https://theathletic.com/news/premier-le ... r8eHhi3ke/ (last accessed 6 February 2023)

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by GodIsADeeJay81 » Wed Feb 15, 2023 11:33 pm

Said it before and I'll say it again, football needs to livestream it's games via an app, all games Inc 3pm kickoff.

The current broadcasting methods are constricting viewing numbers

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Thu Feb 16, 2023 12:42 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Fri Feb 10, 2023 4:53 pm
Once @UglyGame (Martin Calladine) gets the scent of something he doesn't let go - here he is with more disturbing info surrounding Sarb Capital and 'Crypto' Investments - you have to say it looks like Sarbjot Johal should be let nowhere near Morecambe FC or any other football club

https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/1624055249840267267
hmm
https://twitter.com/shrimpstrust/status ... iesZAtAAAA
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I think @UglyGame makes all the right points here

https://twitter.com/uglygame/status/1625933387365076992

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Thu Feb 16, 2023 1:03 pm

more ignominy for Barcelona? Still the modern way is to brash it out and they are very good at that

Prosecutors investigate Barcelona payments to company owned by refereeing official
Club say they hired consultant and it was ‘common practice’
José María Enríquez Negreira denies ever favouring Barcelona

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... nvestigate

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Re: Football's Magic Money Tree

Post by Chester Perry » Thu Feb 16, 2023 5:10 pm

Chester Perry wrote:
Tue Feb 14, 2023 10:30 pm
Seems our friends down the road are looking for new ways to drive income out of the land they own at Ewood - though there is little in the way of detail yet - I am sure a few posters here could offer suggestions to them

https://www.pegasusgroup.co.uk/projects ... asterplan/
Blackpool too seem to be wanting to do some development but the way they are going about it is upsetting the neighbours

Blackpool FC's neighbours 'in the dark' about stadium plans
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-l ... e-64665932

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