European Super League OFF; Spurs face withdrawal fee

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So the current UEFA plan - bribe the Super Leaguers!


UEFA needs to realize that the stronger they make the biggest clubs financially, the more leverage they lose over them.

Overseas money is going to continue to flood into the game with the explicit and unshakeable determination to create a closed-shop NFL of European football. The desire is never going to stop. UEFA and FIFA and the Associations need to decide whether they want to enable that or whether they want to combat it from a position of strength.

Every step toward a pan-European competition that expands the games and revenues flowing toward an ever-more secure elite cabal of clubs is a surrender to the Super League concept.

This ESL is totally non-viable and UEFA now has these clubs over a barrel. The direction of travel of negotiations should be about how much control and money the Dirty Dozen have to surrender in order to be allowed to come crawling back.
 
DAZN is the rumoured place the games will be shown.
DAZN is a tiny nothing company. That would be the functional equivalent of the ESL (or JPMorgan Chase, really) purchasing DAZN as a back-end tech platform and running their broadcasting themselves.

That would surprise me. You'd want some global hegemon like Amazon to wildly overpay to use this as a loss leader.
 
Apparently buses can't get in at Chelsea. If the fans can get the game called off, that would be a huge win. Maybe a strategy going forward. Cech has come out now (not in that way).

 
DAZN is a tiny nothing company. That would be the functional equivalent of the ESL (or JPMorgan Chase, really) purchasing DAZN as a back-end tech platform and running their broadcasting themselves.

That would surprise me. You'd want some global hegemon like Amazon to wildly overpay to use this as a loss leader.
DAZN literally just paid $3B ($1B/yr) for the Serie A rights. Just because they're new and some people haven't heard of them doesn't mean they're insignificant.

They're a subsidiary of Access Industries, owned by Len Blatvenik who is worth $33 billion.

They're plenty big enough.
 
DAZN literally just paid $3B ($1B/yr) for the Serie A rights. Just because they're new and some people haven't heard of them doesn't mean they're insignificant.

They're a subsidiary of Access Industries, owned by Len Blatvenik who is worth $33 billion.

They're plenty big enough.
The scale of the ESL rights would be much, much larger.

DAZN is no joke, John Skipper who used to run ESPN is one the principals, but it is a small fish in the industry.

Also, never say never, but how could the Serie A rights holder possibly get involved with this? The conflict of interest there is massive.
 
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