Not many journalists actually do journalism any more. It’s like nobody gives a fook about real stories that could affect football, football fans and the sport in general. Todays crap journos just told to go out make shyt up and get some clicks. Clickbait brings eyeballs and eyes mean adverts and adverts means revenue. We have had a couple of good leads on this thread over the recent past. Chelsea owner and his links to Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund. The probability of Chelsea beating FFFP rules with the help of Saudis. Or how about the collapse of Chinese ownership in European football and the reasons why.
Here’s another that deserves to be looked into. My hackles were raised when Bournemouth tried to lure Marcelo Bielsa last season. I asked myself why a village pub team with an average gate of 7k would want to try and get Bielsa. It was around the time a yank who owns a big sports team in Las Vegas was about to buy the club. Then you ask why a big yank sports owner would want that pub team? The answer is that the yanks see English football as a low cost entry into the massive world of football and broadcasting rights.
In the words of Parag Marathe, you know the so-called king of sports contracts, it’s all about eyeballs and broadcasting contracts. When you look into it further you find that Arsenal, Villa, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Man Utd, Palace, Fulham, Leeds, Liverpool, Man City (Silver Lake act on behalf of Abu Dhabi), Burnley, Milwall, Swansea, Barnsley, Cambridge Utd, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Crawley and Wrexham are all Yank owned. There’s also a long line of yanks waiting to come in. 20 of the 72 clubs now Yankee dollar and rising fast. Everton to 777 Investments would make 21 clubs owned by yanks.
Sky made billions from football but those in the know understand that the Sky model is dead and the yanks want to strip it back. May 2021, the Premier League confirmed it would extend its £5.1billion television deal, which started last season and will run until the end of the 2024-25 campaign. It is by far the most lucrative deal signed in world football. Only the National Football League (NFL) and cricket’s Indian Premier League (IPL) generate more domestic revenue per game than the English top flight. The NFL own the rights to its football and have their own broadcast arm who sell games to broadcast outlets. So just like F1TV it uses its own cameras and sells the feed to broadcast platforms. The yanks would love to take control of Premier League TV. There’s also ideas around some clubs not being happy with the share of tv revenue and wanting to do their own thing meaning LUTV streaming its home games worldwide to a huge fanbase. The likes of Man Utd, Liverpool etc would probably make a lot more than Leeds going this way, but clubs like Bournemouth maybe not so much but if you look into it logically Bournemouth would only need a couple of million fans from anywhere in the world multiplied by 19 home games plus any cup games and they would make more than they do from Sky. Amazon are now involved too, DAZN, BeIN Sports, Peacock, CBS and more. Yanks are not silly, they are greedy twats. Teams in the Championship get £4.5m per season in tv money and if Leeds told them to shove it and decided to stream their home games worldwide they could make many, many times more than that. Even at only a £1 charge per stream Leeds would make more than £20m per season in the championship.
In 2012 one of the best midfielders in Italy, who was compared to Pirlo was transferred from Pescarro to PSG for £12m. This week Marco Veratti was sold to a Qatari club for £45m. Lets not forget that the player is now 30 and spent the last 12 years at PSG and he played way over 400 games for them. Why hasn’t a journo thought to himself: hey something not right here why would a Qatari club pay £45m for a 30yo Italian with no contract left. Oh and PSG being a Qatari club owned by the Royal Family? Obviously nothing fishy going on here with PSG FFFP issues.
Here’s another that deserves to be looked into. My hackles were raised when Bournemouth tried to lure Marcelo Bielsa last season. I asked myself why a village pub team with an average gate of 7k would want to try and get Bielsa. It was around the time a yank who owns a big sports team in Las Vegas was about to buy the club. Then you ask why a big yank sports owner would want that pub team? The answer is that the yanks see English football as a low cost entry into the massive world of football and broadcasting rights.
In the words of Parag Marathe, you know the so-called king of sports contracts, it’s all about eyeballs and broadcasting contracts. When you look into it further you find that Arsenal, Villa, Bournemouth, Chelsea, Man Utd, Palace, Fulham, Leeds, Liverpool, Man City (Silver Lake act on behalf of Abu Dhabi), Burnley, Milwall, Swansea, Barnsley, Cambridge Utd, Ipswich, Portsmouth, Crawley and Wrexham are all Yank owned. There’s also a long line of yanks waiting to come in. 20 of the 72 clubs now Yankee dollar and rising fast. Everton to 777 Investments would make 21 clubs owned by yanks.
Sky made billions from football but those in the know understand that the Sky model is dead and the yanks want to strip it back. May 2021, the Premier League confirmed it would extend its £5.1billion television deal, which started last season and will run until the end of the 2024-25 campaign. It is by far the most lucrative deal signed in world football. Only the National Football League (NFL) and cricket’s Indian Premier League (IPL) generate more domestic revenue per game than the English top flight. The NFL own the rights to its football and have their own broadcast arm who sell games to broadcast outlets. So just like F1TV it uses its own cameras and sells the feed to broadcast platforms. The yanks would love to take control of Premier League TV. There’s also ideas around some clubs not being happy with the share of tv revenue and wanting to do their own thing meaning LUTV streaming its home games worldwide to a huge fanbase. The likes of Man Utd, Liverpool etc would probably make a lot more than Leeds going this way, but clubs like Bournemouth maybe not so much but if you look into it logically Bournemouth would only need a couple of million fans from anywhere in the world multiplied by 19 home games plus any cup games and they would make more than they do from Sky. Amazon are now involved too, DAZN, BeIN Sports, Peacock, CBS and more. Yanks are not silly, they are greedy twats. Teams in the Championship get £4.5m per season in tv money and if Leeds told them to shove it and decided to stream their home games worldwide they could make many, many times more than that. Even at only a £1 charge per stream Leeds would make more than £20m per season in the championship.
In 2012 one of the best midfielders in Italy, who was compared to Pirlo was transferred from Pescarro to PSG for £12m. This week Marco Veratti was sold to a Qatari club for £45m. Lets not forget that the player is now 30 and spent the last 12 years at PSG and he played way over 400 games for them. Why hasn’t a journo thought to himself: hey something not right here why would a Qatari club pay £45m for a 30yo Italian with no contract left. Oh and PSG being a Qatari club owned by the Royal Family? Obviously nothing fishy going on here with PSG FFFP issues.
