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Originally Posted by muppetman11
Question do you expect Sky to retain and pay more at the next renewal ?
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Think it depends on the packages that are put to tender….
I suspect Amazon will make a play for a weekly game and no more than that as it seems entirely consistent with how they are approaching things like CL games, I think WBD/BT will attempt to do much the same…
I think Sky will retain the majority (or at least their core weekend games) and probably pay an increase (though I don’t think it’ll be a dramatic increase) but I’d never presume anything! Think the question for next year is whether DAZN will finally make a big stupid play for the PL though I’m not entirely sure Sky will be as willing to let them take a big position in their core market as they did in Italy (even though that somewhat backfired on DAZN a bit and they ended up doing another carriage deal with Sky).
And as jfman says, there’s always been the shadow of a new saviour coming in to wrest it all away… I don’t think it’ll be any different except everyone will be calling them Apple.