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Originally Posted by LaLiga
Their La Liga deal is 3 years. Eleven are an international organisation and have a foothold in many countries...I don't foresee a scenario where they go bust and free up the rights when still in contract?
Don't get me wrong, if were to happen tomorrow I'd welcome everything back to Sky/BT but surely they would have anticipated distribution issues.
I love LaLiga but refuse to sign up to laptop/tablet (delayed) football coverage as a matter of principal.
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You can substitute Eleven for Setanta and all of those statements held true at one point in time.
It would be reckless of Eleven if they haven’t isolated their operations in each territory from each other to ensure that losses in one wouldn’t bring the whole operation down.
There is often confusion that because an organisation is big, or profitable as a whole, it is willing to tolerate losses indefinitely. They aren’t, they are investors and each decision made on the basis of likelihood of returns in the medium to long term. Eleven in the UK requires hundreds of thousands of subscribers and the indication is it is falling far short. That position isn’t sustainable.
The fact the La Liga contract is three years makes them more likely to walk away rather than commit themselves to the accumulated losses for the whole period.