Interesting that they gave him No. 10....Man City: "He's here! No, not him, the other one."
View: https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1423358239945670657
https://sambadigital.com/espn-signs-eight-year-deal-with-laliga-bringing-top-tier-spanish-soccer-to-the-us/ESPN has acquired the rights to the all-important LaLiga in the United States until the end of the 2028/29 season. While the financial terms of the eight-year contract are not public, Sportico estimates that ESPN will pay the Spanish soccer body $175 million per year. This is only for one season; they will have to pay a total of $1.4 billion over the duration of the agreement. According to the sports business outlet, it was well worth it, as it is now the most lucrative US media rights deal for an international soccer league.
What can we expect?
This contract will kick off in the 2021/22 season and will provide ESPN+ with live and on-demand coverage of 380 top-flight matches throughout the year. ESPN+ will now broadcast a number of games from LaLiga SmartBank, Spain’s second-tier soccer league. All fixtures, including five promotion playoffs, will be available in both English and Spanish as part of this agreement.
Select games will be broadcast on ESPN’s linear network throughout the season, in addition to ESPN+. SportsCenter and other ESPN studio shows, as well as ESPN’s digital and social media platforms, will provide coverage and highlights. This isn’t all; match previews, highlights, and magazine shows are also available.
This new contract will highlight LaLiga’s and its clubs’ dominance in the world’s largest media market. It will also carry one of the best soccer leagues to American screens in a more detailed and modern way than ever before. Not only that, but the transaction would broaden ESPN+’s soccer selection. This includes the Copa Del Rey knockout tournament in Spain, the Bundesliga in Germany, and Major League Soccer.
How the deal began
To make this agreement with ESPN possible, LaLiga had to repurchase its US media rights from BeIN Sports. This Qatar-based broadcaster had been the league’s exclusive broadcast partner in the country until the final game of the 2023/24 season. This isn’t the end for BeIN; the company still has big plans for the American market, where it has rights to Ligue 1, Copa Libertadores, and the Africa Cup of Nations.
La Liga signed a 15-year joint venture with Relevent Sports in 2018 to expand its brand in the region. The league’s new deal with ESPN will put it alongside a number of other premium sports assets while also introducing it to a massive US audience, with Disney reporting that ESPN+ has produced 13.8 million subscribers.
Yes, but we got glimpses of how complex this stuff actually is when Ronaldo moved to Juventus. Cash flow and FFP rules have to be maneuvered in the context of Messi's many, many endorsement and image rights deals.Messi would give such a commercial boost to most clubs that his wages would to a significant degree pay for themselves if the club can manage the COVID cash flow issues. There's nobody close to him in terms of shirt sales, sponsorship value, etc.
I'm confused about FFP admin. In the MANC case, UEFA was the "plaintiff" (I think). Here, it's La Liga. What am I missing or remembering incorrectly?Would rather have Jack anyway he’s such a manc (sarcasm)
After last season I just don’t buy this is anything but a way for Barca to put pressure on La Liga. City at least seem to have realized that Lucy always pulls the football away
As committed FPL players will tell you, Kane and Son consistently overperform xG. Spurs have basically been two guys who pull moments of magic out of their ass, a good keeper, and guys.Excellent post.
Spurs have a negative XG in aggregate over their last 85-90 league matches or something ridiculous like that. Maybe there is some managerial underperformance but its happened across two different managers, neither of whom are mugs. An objective look at the situation suggests they really should be rebuilding and that selling Kane this summer at the peak of his value is the right move.
Exactly, those guys are amazing and they've needed every one of those moments of magic just to average about 60 points the last two years. If Kane and Son were 24 and 25, you could raise the level of the rest of the team and then you'd be cooking. But they're 28 and 29 and most likely to be easing into the decline phase of their careers very soon. Meanwhile, the top four teams are engaged in an almost unprecedented arms race as talent pours into the league from a financially distressed Europe, so catching any of them in the next year or two just looks really hard. You've got to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.As committed FPL players will tell you, Kane and Son consistently overperform xG. Spurs have basically been two guys who pull moments of magic out of their ass, a good keeper, and guys.
FWIW, the Grealish deal happened because Grealish had exactly one of these sorts of clauses in his Villa contract: a 100m release clause could be triggered by a bid from a team participating in the CL if Villa were not in the CL.His brother shouldn't have had him sign a 6 year deal with no clauses like "two years without CL league football and a 80m buyout clause is activated". "After year 2 if Spurs aren't in at least the Europa league, 90m buyout clause activates". Something like that for a player of Kane's quality and stature for a six year contract should be borderline standard.
Or, you know, only sign a 4 year contract.
And if you are going to make all those mistakes, don't compound them by having your asset turn from hero to villain by not showing up and make the actual villain of the story (Levy) look like a hero.
Again, his representation isn't fine, it's terrible. He doesn't need a Mendez or Raiola to do this. Really just any professional and not his brother who clearly doesn't know what he's doing.
They easily won the league and scored the most goals.For those who were questioning why City were after Grealish and Kane this article highlights how much weaker City was in attack last season
https://www.fotmob.com/news/1jxivaemcrpb71lsslgnl8uxgn-Manchester-City-2021-22:-Does-Grealish-signing-and-Kane-pursuit-mean-a-shake-up-for-Guardiola?
Yep already asking if he would play as wing back depth. But Lukaku was needed with Werner inability to finish consistently. Ziyech, Mount, Werner, Hudson-Odoi, Pulisic, Havertz lots of options for Tuchel.Lukaku to Chelsea for €115m.
Assuming this pushes Werner out wide, competition for minutes is going to be intense for Pulisic.
That was a tough time when we were dumping so many young players. Lukaku, Salah, De Bruyne.So Chelsea sold Lukaku for 28m when he was 21, and are now buying him back for 100m when he's 28. That is ... not great business.
On the one hand, incredible scouting and recruitment. On the other hand, Mourinho…That was a tough time when we were dumping so many young players. Lukaku, Salah, De Bruyne.
after flopping at Utd...not sure if his return will be better at age 28 - this isn't Serie A...or maybe go back to blue will inspire himSo Chelsea sold Lukaku for 28m when he was 21, and are now buying him back for 100m when he's 28. That is ... not great business.
isn't he taking a physical in Paris tonight?
Romero must be the most fun guy ever.Imagine Messi playing in the Europa Conference League and just notching double hat tricks every match.
Yes. I imagine Spurs simply called his agent and said "Please" and were turned down.isn't he taking a physical in Paris tonight?
Hitchens probably owes Paratici $5 for losing the bet that there was no way he would actually do it.Yes. I imagine Spurs simply called his agent and said "Please" and were turned down.
Vestergaard had only one year left on his contract, which likely kept the fee down.View: https://twitter.com/SkySportsNews/status/1426217413855547398
I'm sorry, Vestergaard for only 15million? thought Southampton could get way more for him
He is also 29 and has been pretty inconsistent since coming into the league. He lost his place in the Soton team for a long stretch of the 19-20 season. He was good last year by all accounts but its not like he has been a rock for them.Vestergaard had only one year left on his contract, which likely kept the fee down.
Wow ! €40m for Tammy Abraham????? I would have thought something in the 25m neighbourhood would be an excellent deal for Chelsea.Tammy Abraham to Roma for €40 million.
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1426654772069900291
Have fun with Jose.
Plus a buy back not terrible. If he gets really good you pay 40m for him to get developed. If he plateaus you get a decent fee up front. Nice business.Wow ! €40m for Tammy Abraham????? I would have thought something in the 25m neighbourhood would be an excellent deal for Chelsea.
He’s still on strike. I think he will be successful and move to City.Are we reading anything into Kane not playing today vs. Man City?
That may be true. But I don’t think he would have featured anyways. If City up their offer then it gets done. The question for Spurs is, holding out for a better offer kind of precludes bringing in a replacement this window.He’s still on strike. I think he will be successful and move to City.
Per this video (Spanish), it's a little more complicated.So if Pique, Alba, and other Barca players reduced their wages or renegotiated their contracts sufficiently to allow the club to register Memphis and Garcia, why couldn't they have done this a couple of weeks ago and kept Messi? Is it just a matter of Messi's wages being so much higher?
Yeah, it seems that since Messi was signing a "new" contract as opposed to renegotiating, the rules accounting ability was limited. Messi's wages were reportedly $50M (E) last year, so it can't be less than $25M this season. With the captains (Pique, Busi, Alba, and Roberto) reducing their wages though, it seems like it should be close. That raises the more interesting issue of whether Grizi was asked or offered to reduce his ASTROFUCKINGNOMICAL wages too.Per this video (Spanish), it's a little more complicated.
Even if Messi had played for free, the league would have calculated his cap "hit" as 50% of his previous contract. I'm not sure that enough players could restructure meaningfully to make the numbers work under those circumstances.