World Sport News

The Executive Director of Liverpool, Ian Ayre, has taken the Premier League by surprise. Tuesday, the leader in the Guardian claimed the privilege of selling TV rights outside the club for the sole benefit of the house red. Emoi the UK! As in France and Germany, English football revenues are distributed according to egalitarian philosophy, in part at the domestic level, total sales for the images out of the Championship. The 20 English clubs and recover the same share of a cake on the export of 1.6 billion euros over three years. A world record for the most watched football in the world (in 212 countries!), A windfall that could even exceed, during the next negotiations in 2013, income from the spread of the Premier League in the UK, currently worth 2.4 billion euros over three years. Naturally, it attracts envy.

Ian Ayre, long live the Spanish model! As Real Madrid and FC Barcelona who market their images solo, inside and outside their borders, the Big Four English should earn more than “small” because it generates more interest in areas such as Asia, where the only Manchester United claimed over 300 million supporters, “If you are a fan of Bolton in Bolton, then you subscribe to Sky because you want to play Bolton. But in Kuala Lumpur, nobody subscribes to Astro and ESPN to watch Bolton, the vast majority subscribe to follow Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea or Arsenal. “Unstoppable

MU and Chelsea do not follow

Given the initial reactions, the sounding of Liverpool is likely to become a sword in the water. He would need unite an already two-thirds majority (14 clubs) to change the system and it is unclear to outsiders shooting himself in the foot. Even giants have distanced themselves. MU and Chelsea have made it very quickly their commitment to the collective sale. For goodness of their hearts? Rather because it is more competitive than the individual solicitation. And maintains, for the balanced distribution of rights, a reasonable level of uncertainty in the competitions. It was with this argument that the second shoulder blades of the Liga in September launched their revolt against the hegemony of Real-Barca that captures more than half of TV revenues in Spain. Ayre believes that it is launching a “real debate”. As Manchester United had tried to do in 2003 before falling face an outcry. The same year, the small Spanish and Italian clubs have sounded a revolt against the big … – J. LB