more even division of TV rights would be steps in the right direction.
Nope…
Top Serie A club currently get LESS money than a random bottom EPL club. With identical distribution you’d cripple even more the top earners while not helping much the smaller clubs.
It’s like comparing a king size pizza to a bakery “pizzetta”
If you cut the small one in 20 identical slices nobody will be fed properly and those gorging on the XXL pizza will still eat more, even if they got the smallest slice.
There’s simply not enough money to redistribute fairly. And honestly it shouldn’t be the case anyway.
Nobody pays to watch Cremonese - Empoli or Salernitana - Lecce. But weaken Juve, Inter or Milan Away and see how the league will sink.
Nobody pays to watch Cremonese - Empoli or Salernitana - Lecce. But weaken Juve, Inter or Milan Away and see how the league will sink.
Nobody pays to watch Burnley vs Fulham or Brentford vs Bournemouth either.
Tebas is undoubtedly a thoroughly repulsive individual yet La Liga has grown immensely under his watch and his biggest change was getting the TV rights away from Barca and Real Madrid and making them collective which has strengthened clubs like Granada, Almeria and Getafe and their finances have grown to an extent they wouldn’t have been able to dream about 10 years ago.
The Bundesliga also collective TV rights despite Bayern and Dortmund being far ahead of everyone else in terms of fans and who’s watching them yet clubs still get a fair deal.
If the other top leagues in Europe can have collective TV deals than there’s no reason Serie A shouldn’t.
TV money is not going to increase and the on field product is not going to increase in value as long as only 2-3 teams are the only ones realistically competing for the tittle. Competition and unpredictability of the result are major reasons why people watch/love sports, unfortunately football has become dominated by 5-6 teams and it really ruins the fun for the other millions of fans who supporrt the other 90 or so, top tear clubs in europe.
Nope…
Top Serie A club currently get LESS money than a random bottom EPL club. With identical distribution you’d cripple even more the top earners while not helping much the smaller clubs.
It’s like comparing a king size pizza to a bakery “pizzetta” If you cut the small one in 20 identical slices nobody will be fed properly and those gorging on the XXL pizza will still eat more, even if they got the smallest slice.
There’s simply not enough money to redistribute fairly. And honestly it shouldn’t be the case anyway.
Nobody pays to watch Cremonese - Empoli or Salernitana - Lecce. But weaken Juve, Inter or Milan Away and see how the league will sink.
Nobody pays to watch Burnley vs Fulham or Brentford vs Bournemouth either.
Tebas is undoubtedly a thoroughly repulsive individual yet La Liga has grown immensely under his watch and his biggest change was getting the TV rights away from Barca and Real Madrid and making them collective which has strengthened clubs like Granada, Almeria and Getafe and their finances have grown to an extent they wouldn’t have been able to dream about 10 years ago.
The Bundesliga also collective TV rights despite Bayern and Dortmund being far ahead of everyone else in terms of fans and who’s watching them yet clubs still get a fair deal.
If the other top leagues in Europe can have collective TV deals than there’s no reason Serie A shouldn’t.
TV money is not going to increase and the on field product is not going to increase in value as long as only 2-3 teams are the only ones realistically competing for the tittle. Competition and unpredictability of the result are major reasons why people watch/love sports, unfortunately football has become dominated by 5-6 teams and it really ruins the fun for the other millions of fans who supporrt the other 90 or so, top tear clubs in europe.