The Football News Thread 2014/15 - Everything not Wolves News Related

[Deutsch Wolf]

So 5.136bn / 2 = 2.58bn roughly. Divide by twenty = 139m. Per club over the three years. And that is before position prize money and payments for actually being on telly. Then you need to add in the money from the highlights package. Good lord.

If the authorities leave the clubs to their own devices then the same thing will happen this time as has happened every time the rights money has gone up over the last 23 years. It will go on wages and the market will adjust for inflation to suit.

In that respect the headline figures are largely irrelevant.

 

[ROVERT47]

You can see why Clubs are desperate to get in there, as for myself, I'm glad Sky have still got the lions share as I've just knocked BT Sport on the head but I'm not daft enough not to realise that Sky subscription's will be going up this Autumn.

 

[Tony Towner]

So assuming we are still in the Championship our tv matches will move from Friday night / Saturday lunchtimes to Saturday tea times.

 

[Parkins left foot]

Listening to this story on the way home - sounds like virtually all of the increase has come from Sky. BTs bids for the two packages they won (& no idea if they bid for more) was only a little increased from last time & works out at £7.6m per game.

Sky's bid was an increase of over 50% from last time & works out at an average of £11m per game! So obviously determined that no one else was going to get in & take more of the packages off them.

Presume Sky subs will have to rise to pay for it & as has been said all that is likely to happens is that player wages/values will inflate up accordingly.

Therefore no additional real investment, no real spreading of the bounty - merely inflated accounts on both income & expenditure.

Cannot see an upside for anyone other than players & agents

 

[Sniffer]

Let's hope that they increase the amounts that go into grassroots football. It's only 12m now compared to 20m a few years earlier.
This money gives English football the chance to make a difference to the national game and it's followers. I hope it's not wasted.

 

[YoungWolf]

If the authorities leave the clubs to their own devices then the same thing will happen this time as has happened every time the rights money has gone up over the last 23 years. It will go on wages and the market will adjust for inflation to suit.

In that respect the headline figures are largely irrelevant.

Isn't there new rules that means that clubs can only increase their wage budget by a certain percentage each year? I cant remember where I read it. That might stop so much of it going on wages.

 

[Alan]

David Villa scored on his NYCFC debut against St. Mirren.

 

[Kenny]

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Phil Neville tweeted yesterday morning asking where does this TV money end up, he really should engage his brain a bit more he picks up his phone that lad. Right up there with his anti-tipping faux pas, reckoned that expecting a tip was a sign of greediness.

 

[Carrotdude]

I completely agree with the calls for ticket prices to come down, after all teams don't need the income that generates with all the extra tv money coming in. Trouble is the people who moan about it keep going to games and paying the extreme amounts (look how many people still go to the emirates and their prices are extortionate). Until people stop going to games why would the clubs bother to reduce ticket prices?

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Part of the deal should include some of the money finding its way down to lower league and non league clubs.

 

[Johnny75]

Should do but I'm not sure the amounts are justified. Even 5% (the original figure in the very first deal) would make a massive difference but I bet it isn't even half of that.

 

[Alan]

I completely agree with the calls for ticket prices to come down, after all teams don't need the income that generates with all the extra tv money coming in. Trouble is the people who moan about it keep going to games and paying the extreme amounts (look how many people still go to the emirates and their prices are extortionate). Until people stop going to games why would the clubs bother to reduce ticket prices?

Given the academic studies which have shown that sport is closer to a religion than a good or service, I don't think it's quite as easy as saying "just stop going until the prices come down".

 

[Carrotdude]

Oh I'm well aware it's not that easy but purely looking from the clubs side in a business way they're not going to reduce ticket prices to £20 when they get a sell out every week for £40

 

[PuntsWolf]

Well the FA/PL need to bring in a ruling where ticket prices are capped. Although there is probably some law somewhere which prevents that being an option

 

[Kenny]

Leyton Orient & the Italian Reality TV Show

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-31428076

 

[Alan]

Manchester United reports debt growth to £380.5 million. Surely they must be held accountable for that?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Internal debt. The day for stopping the Glazers doing what they do has long since passed.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Isn't that considerably lower than they ramped it up to when they first took over though?

 

[Kenny]

Isn't that considerably lower than they ramped it up to when they first took over though?

Started at £900m I think