Premier League's Big Six chase a bigger slice of the overseas TV cash
The Big Six threat to the continued stability of the Premier League over the distribution of overseas television income was again evident at last week's clubs' summit.

The two Manchester clubs, City and United, are once more at the forefront in trying to end the even split of the £3billion foreign proceeds for the next three-year rights deal.

City chief executive Ferran Soriano, who worked at Barcelona, cannot comprehend how Premier League teams who are most popular abroad do not benefit accordingly.
And United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward is not far behind in demanding payments based on the number of TV appearances in the overseas markets.

A vote on the issue was delayed until the next meeting in September and 'the supporting cast', as the other 14 clubs were described, still have the majority to block any changes.

But most clubs seem to accept that changes are inevitable and one proposal is that some of the overseas pot is used to increase teams' annual prize-money based on their final league position.

I think this is greedy, unfair and would be a big mistake. The top clubs don't need more money but if they further decrease the competitiveness of the League then they'll suffer in the long run.

It is just the world we live in today; the rich want more at the expense of the less fortunate.

While it may benefit us I would be against it. The competitive level of the PL is what makes it the most popular league in the world.

I'm against it too in principle, though allocating it evenly towards the position based prize money might not be so bad.

I'm against it as well, however it's true that a club getting relegated receives substantial amounts of cash that would - by extension - put them at an advantage to any other club in the Championship. Overall the current system works well, could do with a few tweaks though.

Mirth wrote:

I'm against it as well, however it's true that a club getting relegated receives substantial amounts of cash that would - by extension - put them at an advantage to any other club in the Championship. Overall the current system works well, could do with a few tweaks though.

The way it is is fine. I agree with Mirth.

In reality though the championship is a jungle and jumping straight back up is for Newcastle or very well run clubs like Burnley.

I doubt Sunderland would survive like Newcastle even with massive payments. Look at Villa. That's more likely.

The parachute payment is needed to stop clubs who go down from falling apart.

Qwiss! wrote:

While it may benefit us I would be against it. The competitive level of the PL is what makes it the most popular league in the world.

Agree 100%. The fact that even shit teams can sign good players is what makes the league interesting.

Rumours going around that Conte is on the verge of leaving Chelsea.

Either over Costa or the summer transfer plans generally, depending of what you believe, if any.

Hmmm, Abramovich is that capricious when it comes to his managers that it would not surprise me to see Conte leave.

di marzio reporting it too. tensions rising over what roman is willing to spend, and what conte wants to do with the squad

after winning the title with a squad he had no hand in putting together, you'd think conte would get unequivocal backing. but this is roman we're talking about.

2 months later

and 'Pool down 1-0 to Watford.. defending on that corner was about as good as ours

Van Djiks just become 10m more expensive

We were shit defensively but were missing 4 of our central defenders. What's Liverpool have just Cylne to come back in and unless they pay a mad sum of money for van Dijk that'll likely be it.

Liverpool are weaker than us in pretty much every area of the pitch. Klopp did well to get them to finish ahead of us last season. He's also lucky Wenger and the board dicked around with the whole contract debacle.

Mane is amazing. He can take Sanchez's place next season.