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[Art Vandelay_]

Auba is EL cup tied.
Welbeck to lead the line

 

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[jd2010]

Hopefully Mason ends up in coaching (provided he wants to remain in football).

Would completely understand if he wants to get away from that though.

Poch said in the Juve post game the door is always open for him to return to the club. He's met with academy director John McDermott in recent days. If that's want he wants to do he'd be fantastic to have around the club

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Looks like the domestic bubble has burst for the PL. Decent deal for Sky.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...y-remains-main-live-broadcaster-a3765946.html

Sky has maintained its position as the main broadcaster of live Premier League football after claiming four of the seven available packages of television rights for 2019-22, it has been announced.

The league's main partner since its inception in 1992, Sky picked up 128 games, including all the matches on Fridays, Sundays and Monday evenings.

BT claimed the other package to have been sold so far, switching from its current 5.30pm slot on Saturdays to 32 games at 12.30pm.

The two remaining packages of two full matchday programmes have not yet been bought, which means the auction will continue on Thursday.

In terms of how much money the league has brought in for its clubs, the five packages to have gone cost £4.464billion - which is just under £700million short of the total achieved in 2015, when 168 games were up for grabs.

With 40 more games a season still to be sold, the cost-per-game price is £9.3m, down from the current £10.2m.

After back-to-back increases of 70 per cent in 2012 and 2015, this result will no doubt disappoint many within the football industry but will come as a huge relief to the shareholders of BT and Sky.

It also suggests that the domestic market for live TV rights has topped out, particularly as the two main players now appear to have called a truce in their battle for customers.

The league and its clubs had hoped one of Silicon Valley's tech giants would enter the fray to continue the upward trajectory for the rights' values but, as things stand, that has not materialised.

However, the league claims there are "multiple bidders" interested in the two remaining 'simulcast' packages.

In a statement, Premier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore said: "We are extremely pleased that BT and Sky continue to view the Premier League and our clubs as such an important part of their offering.

"Both broadcasters are fantastic partners for the Premier League and have a track record of making our competition available to fans across the country through their high-quality and innovative programming.

"We will now continue the sales process to deliver the best possible outcome for the remaining packages of rights in the UK and throughout the rest of the world."

With no single bidder able to buy more than 148 of the 200 games a season, Sky can only bid for one of the two remaining 20-game packages. But it will be very content with its work so far, particularly as it has secured 15 first picks for games at 5.30pm on Saturdays and 19 at 4.30pm on Sundays.

Furthermore, Sky has bought the eight games in the new 7.45pm slot on Saturday evenings, as well as getting 24 games it can show either on Friday or Monday evenings and 32 games at 2pm on Sundays.

This will set the firm back £3.579bn over three years, nearly £200million less a season than they are paying now, or 16 per cent less a game.

In a company statement, Sky UK chief executive Stephen van Rooyen highlighted the "disciplined approach" to investing in premium content, while the managing director of Sky Sports, Barney Francis, said its customers "will continue to enjoy unrivalled Premier League coverage through to 2022".

Discipline was the watchword for BT, too, as it has committed to pay £885m for its 32-game Saturday afternoon package over the next three years, £75m less than it paid for its current offering of 42 games a season.

In its statement, BT Consumer chief executive Marc Allera said it was "delighted that our customers will be able to continue enjoying Saturday games on BT Sport".

Having paid £1.2bn to own midweek European club football, the telecoms giant had made it clear where its priorities lay and had even suggested it would walk away from Premier League football if the prices went too high.

That has not proved to be the case, though, and BT said it "will continue to engage with the Premier League regarding the remaining rights".

Considering its success in simultaneously broadcasting entire Champions League matchday programmes, BT must be considered the favourite for at least one of the two remaining packages. Whether Amazon, or any other new entrant will fight them for it, remains to be seen.

The overall result of this auction, however, will only sharpen the big clubs' interest in how the still-rising overseas broadcast rights should be divvied out. At present, they are shared but the Premier League's leading lights believe they deserve a bigger cut and that argument will inevitably arise again in the near future.

 

[SM]

Hopefully Mason ends up in coaching (provided he wants to remain in football).

Would completely understand if he wants to get away from that though.

He sounds like he wants to stay in football because he loves the game.

 

[Jatz]

He sounds like he wants to stay in football because he loves the game.

Well that's good then. Credit to him, I think it'd become easy to get bitter towards football.

 

[jd2010]

He's been on tv a bit as a pundit hasn't he?

 

[SM]

He's been on tv a bit as a pundit hasn't he?

Yeah.

 

[jd2010]

Yeah.

How've you found him? Obviously would grow into the role more with experience. He'd make a great youth coach I reckon. His learnings through the system whether that's years of looking like not going anywhere or going on loans down the divisions or abroad could be like gold dust to a club wanting to focus on bringing through youth

 

[SM]

How've you found him? Obviously would grow into the role more with experience. He'd make a great youth coach I reckon. His learnings through the system whether that's years of looking like not going anywhere or going on loans down the divisions or abroad could be like gold dust to a club wanting to focus on bringing through youth

I dunno, I haven't heard him, just know he's done it.

 

[kangaspurs]

Poch said in the Juve post game the door is always open for him to return to the club. He's met with academy director John McDermott in recent days. If that's want he wants to do he'd be fantastic to have around the club

Fantastic to have him back as he's well liked there still and a fan.

Not to mention that I'm pretty sure he's one of Harry Kane's best mates so it might be another small thing that would contribute to keeping him at the club.

He's been on tv a bit as a pundit hasn't he?

I remember watching him on this video a while ago and thinking he was spoke well and seemed knowledgable.

 

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[chef]

Even though it was an accident Gary Cahill must feel a bit sick about his part he played in this.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Even though it was an accident Gary Cahill must feel a bit sick about his part he played in this.

Sean Abbott - Phil Hughes comes to mind.

 

[SM]

Hopefully there'll be some tribute before the game Saturday morning.

 

[jod23]

****ing hell haha. Did lol.

 

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[Bostonian]

I'm not normally one for the feels, but this got me right in the feels.

 

[Magma]

 

[Donnie Darko]

how to turn £1 into over 6k

 

[FAITH]

Why Real Madrid No Longer Need BBC typeclub:

http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/bye-...rom-the-deadly-trio/y4aqc2b5d7hh1rlxl6483zysm

 

[typeclub]

Why Real Madrid No Longer Need BBC typeclub:

http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/bye-...rom-the-deadly-trio/y4aqc2b5d7hh1rlxl6483zysm

We can probably trade in the B's. They were done last year too but the quality of C made them champions.

 

[kangaspurs]

Interesting that along with criticising Arsenal fan TV and saying they're not really fans, Hector Bellerin has also said that Alexis Sanchez winner mentality got to be too much for the other players.

Not sure I'd want to hear our players complaining about a winners mentality being too much tbh. (INB4 Hehe Spurs and a winners mentality).

Edit: And Robbie has responded. He makes some fair points imo. I actually think Bellerin's comments were a little out of order.

 

[Latro]

Interesting that along with criticising Arsenal fan TV and saying they're not really fans, Hector Bellerin has also said that Alexis Sanchez winner mentality got to be too much for the other players.

Not sure I'd want to hear our players complaining about a winners mentality being too much tbh. (INB4 Hehe Spurs and a winners mentality).

Thats not what he said.

“Alexis is an amazing player,” Bellerin said. “One of the best in the Premier League for sure but he is a player who always wants to win.

“He demands from everyone, sometimes it can be too much. The great thing is he wants to win, to give 100 per cent.

“This season maybe things weren’t going as well for him but I truly believe he was giving 100 per cent.

“There was one game against Crystal Palace. We celebrated a goal and some of the players went I stayed back, I was talking to Calum Chambers because there was some tactical stuff. For me that was more important than celebrating the goal.”

He also accused the campaigners at AFTV of profiting off Arsenal losses. **** those assholes.

 

[jd2010]

Cowardly time to call out Arsenal fan tv with no game this weekend for them to have a reply to hjm