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the club's have been sold the promise of 5bn a year revenue for this new league - that must have come from somewhere.
it didn't seem as though sky were involved by their reaction either.
there's always the option of making them all directly available ppv by each club, or on YouTube or something like that
With the amount of money in the whole project and the status of the owners, what's to stop them introducing their own streaming service?
Yes they could indeed, or perhaps approach someone like Netflix.
I guess setting up their own adds an additional level of risk.
their talked about 5bn a season is basically what Disney+ is gathering in revenue worldwide now - i guess it is possible but it also means that they are taking on all the risk
Filled with unaccustomed optimism, a 4-part story. pic.twitter.com/X03HAu4KjT
— Martin Calladine (@uglygame) April 20, 2021
Dare we dream?
I'm not sure about that. I don't pretend to be best mates with Ronaldo but my guess is that he'd rather have one more world cup than play in this.
I wonder if clubs electing out of domestic league and European competitions is a breach of these player contracts. If Salah has a goalscoring bonus for EPL goals- how does that work now he can't play in it?
I would have thought the clubs will use their own TV channels alongside a streaming platform called SuperLeague TV as the model they are looking to use follows US Sports as this is all about securing as much money as possible.
No need to, it won't happen. Whilst 'real' fans are hugely outnumbered by plastics across the World, they're the ones that are up close to the club, it's employees, along with local and national media. All told a damaging exercise for these clubs' images, and a telling sign just how little these owners understand the concept of following and supporting your team. The awful thing is we're now going to have to put up with all those conciliatory, fawning statements from the 'big six'...
The more the story has gathered pace over the past 48hrs, the more I personally think it won't amount to anything. I've been glued to the media in fascination and its just getting farcical now.
There's no way they can proceed with it and i'll bet the clubs executives are having internal shit your pants meetings discussing how they can get out of it showing face and minimising embarrassment.
it'll be interesting to see what happens next, will they keep pushing for it, or try to extract some kind of concession from uefa to make it go away.
if it is defeated then the punishments need to be severe and stricter laws brought in to prevent it from happening again
The fact that helping shut it down would be an easy PR win for Boris doesn't bode well for the idea either
I think it's looking less likely, I think the clubs involved are going to be ****ed.
BREAKING
— Dan Roan (@danroan) April 20, 2021
I understand Chelsea are now preparing documentation to request withdrawing from the ESL
Chelsea have bottled it
They made a decision and not completed it because the backlash from all corners has been stronger than they expected, they're not doing this out of any reasons for the good of football or anything. They got cold feet and are scrambling. In my view they've bottled it.