| harry_hitch |
05-02-2015 01:12 |
Re: ESPN, BT, Euro, Premier and Sky Sports news
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Originally Posted by vincerooney
(Post 35757290)
We need sky to win as many packages as possible. If they don't or bt gain an advantage it's potenially the death for televised football in this country.
Bt sport will start charging 20-25 quid a month if they get a lot of packages. Sky being greedy and wanting to maintain share price etc won't ever decrease their subscription costs. You'd be looking at 55+ quid per month just to watch football. A huge amount on top of monthly Sky, cable bills. The average person won't be able to afford it just like they can't afford to go to matches and very gradually football in this country may start dying a death
The greed of the premier league sees this as grab as much cash as possible opportunities. But after the end of it if they look down at their hands it may not be a handful of notes they're clutching but the blood of the ancient sport
I intentionally went to overhype and dramatise it with over the top languahe haha but I think the majority of it could frighteningly true
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Lol, football will never die a death. The greedy money grabbing mercenaries who come to play football over here will just have to take a pay cut if the PL loses out on some money. TV rights will always be sold, it might just be for less than the PL want. The clubs will still be here, it will mean they just have less TV money, and as I say, players will have to take a pay cut or move on. It will never dies.
Football lasted a long time before the PL came along and will last a long time after. Football was much better for the fans (and perversely clubs were better off living within their means, rather than trying to spend big just for PL TV money) before the advent of the PL and Murdoch then throwing money at it.
Real football is not all about one league that serves its purpose and its purpose only (making money and catering to the whims the whims rich sugar daddy owners). It is about local clubs being run for not only profit, but for the benefit of the local community and treating loyal people like true fans, not milking them as if they are just customers.
How can anyone justify Rooney getting paid £300,000 a week, when Cambridge United's record signing cost £190,000 and the two teams we fielded against Man Utd cost us nothing as they were loanees, academy kids or free transfers. If Cambridge can survive like this, almost any lower league club can. The sooner the PL brand dies, and we go back to it all under the FA's purview the happier I will be.
There will always be big clubs with more money and the top talent for the little clubs to take players from on loan (long may it continue), but the want for PL money involved now is causing too much financial evil for too many clubs. |
