As an Arsenal and premier league fan, I
can't help noticing that the last three
champions league have been won by
Bayern, Madrid, and Barca in that order,
Three of the richest football clubs in the
modern football.
Madrid and Barca courtesy of their
financial muscle keep poaching the
premier league year after year for best
talents, while premier league must make
do with second tier talents from la liga.
Ronaldo,Henry Modric, Bale and now
Suarez, premier league clubs have failed
to hold unto their best talents when it
mattered most, Barca and Madrid can
poach them, but no top premier club gets
to poach Madrid and Barca stars, we only
get those they deem surplus to
requirements eg Sanchez, Ozil and
Dimaria.
Bayern have the monopoly of the German
talent market and they have the financial
muscle to hold unto their stars and
prevent Madrid and Barca from poaching
them, this is why they have been able to
challenge Madrid and Barca favourably in
Europe.
The premier league New TV deal is going
to change the climate of club football in
Europe for atleast a decade. Barca and
Madrid Will lose their financial advantage,
and won't be able to poach premier
league stars again! But might now even
start losing their own stars to premier
league clubs. It is a mouth watering
prospect. We will see how they will cope.

Imagine an Era, where premier league clubs will be able to keep premier league best players away from Barca and Madrid, while poaching La liga every season to buy their Pichichi winners and best players away from Madrid and Barca!

Imagine the change that is about to come.

On Tuesday, the English Premier League announced that Sky Sports and BT Sport would retain the league’s domestic television rights at a staggering cost: About $7.9 billion over three years starting in the 2016-17 season, a 70 percent increase over what they’re currently paying. And when international rights are factored in, the league is expected take in about $13 billion over the course of the deal, or around $4.3 billion per year. For comparison’s sake, the NFL earns about $3 billion per year from its television deal, while the NBA will take in about $2.66 billion per year when its new television deal begins in the 2016-17 season. EPL teams, obviously, are thrilled. As the Guardian reports, even the league’s last- place team will receive around $152 million annually, while the champion should rake in about $240 million. And with more television money comes higher salaries for players. “Previous increases in TV rights income have tended to lead to a commensurate increase in wages,” the Guardian’s Owen Gibson writes. That last point has other European soccer leagues worried that the world’s top stars will flock to England, leaving everyone else behind. Here’s Bernard Caiazzo, co- president of French club Saint-Etienne, in the Guardian : The Premier League will become the NBA of football. It will be greater than the Champions League. Clubs such as Manchester United or Chelsea will have budgets of €700 or €800m,” he was quoted as saying in the French media. “What is happening in England will impact on Germany, Italy, Spain. And I do not imagine that Uefa will not react. But there will be a greater attention if the request comes from Bayern [Munich] , Real [Madrid] , Barcelona or Milan instead of St Etienne. Caiazzo called on UEFA, European soccer’s governing body, “to take action to stop the Premier League” from amassing so much power, the Guardian writes. Christian Seifert, CEO of the German Football League (DFL), echoed Caiazzo’s sentiments, calling the EPL’s future windfall “a challenge for our league, for the DFL and for the clubs, which we have to confront,” he told Bild . Javier Tebas, president of La Liga in Spain, also voiced his concern that the EPL will gobble up the world’s soccer royalty. “We have a serious problem. We won’t be the best league in a year,” Tebas said, per the BBC . “We’re going to lose a lot of value in the market because the Premier League is going to snap up all of the global TV competition and contracts.” La Liga is the only top European league in which individual clubs negotiate their own television contracts, which creates an imbalance between the top clubs — Real Madrid is the world’s richest club, while Barcelona ranks fourth — and the rest because the powerhouses generate far more television revenue (10 times more than the least-valuable club, the Daily Mail reports ). This week, Espanyol President Joan Collet said the league’s teams are willing to strike unless the Spanish government passes a law requiring the league to negotiate its television rights as a whole, splitting the revenue equally. After spending the first 17 years of his Post career writing and editing, Matt and the printed paper had an amicable divorce in 2014. He's now blogging and editing for the Early Lead and the Post's other Web-based products.

Many analysts in europe are already worried.
They call it the "NBA-ification" of europe by england where all the best players in the world run to england.
English clubs have suffered too much from the likes of barcelona and real madrid poaching their best players and making the clubs uncompetitive.
I can't wait to see english clubs giving barcelona and real madrid a real spanking every season.

WILL ENGLAND DOMINATE EUROPE?
http://i.imgur.com/pOavcIN.jpg
From 2016, each PL clubwill have more than
120m euros in tv rights. Enough to dominate the
champions league, inabalance european football
and the transfer market?
At the moment, there are only the numbers that
make you dizzy. From the 2016/2017 season, the
20 English clubs will share 2.3 Billion euros in tv
rights for 3 years, on which will be added 900m
euros per year in international rights. That is a
70% increase of the current contract.
For a few million euros (at this point, whose
counting?), the 20th of the Premier league will
touch in tv rights the entire budget of the 3rd or
4th in Ligue1. A the end of the 2016/2017 season,
PSG, if they are champions, will have 45m euros
under the current contract LFP acquiered with
Canal+ and BeIn Sports. The English champion
will win 210 m euros, almost 5 times more.
There are already 8 English clubs amongst the 20
richest in the world. In 2017 there is little doubt
that they will be atleast half of the top 20. Only
Real Madrid, Barclona, and Bayern Munich seem
capable of resisting, for now.
BLACKBURN, ONLY "INTRUDER" SINCE 1992
Bayern is a big power thanks to merchandising: in
2013/2014 the tv rights of the German club (36.9
million euros) were more less than half that of the
last placed PL club (79 million). Real and Barca
can keep up, despite their debts, because they
refuse to share tv rights in La liga and
concentrate 70-80% of the tv money of the
league. With 130-150 million euros a year, they
receive "English" sums.
While tv money are not the only source of
economic power (9 PL clubs are owned by foreign
investors), Englad is, amongst the 5 major
leagues, the one who share the most equitably its
wealth.
The big question, obviously, is on what will be the
sporting consequences of this contract. Inside, its
impact on the suspense in the Premier league,
and the impossibility on having a surprise, seem
almost zero: It is etched in stone and for a long
time. Since the the creation of the PL in 1992,
only Blackburn (1995) was able to stop the
absolute hedgemony of the big 4 (Manchester
United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City). Not
everyone has the chance to follow Ligue1, with its
9 champions in 20 years. In the outside, the risk
that England dominates Europe is very
strengthened, even if this doesnt seem likely in
the short term. Since 1992, England (4 wins) has
won ess champions leagues than Spain (7) and
Italy (5).
Actually, English clubs are already very rich and
they haven't always well spent their money: last
season, Liverpool reveived 122m euros of tv
rights, against 48m to Marseille, and that didnt
prevent the Merseyside club to be wasteful in its
recruitment.
But the gap in resources should mechanically
create a gulf in the long term. The contract of the
century deregulate the transfer market, in the
league where salaries are the highest, and where
the market for English players is completely crazy,
a particular trait that makes it less threatening to
the rest of Europe, however. Most of the best
players play in England, but not all of them: there
are some remaining, and not the least, at Bayern,
Real, and Barcelona. The 2 best, Ronaldo and
Messi, are in La Liga. The earthquake will happen
if they both came to England.
SHARE THE WEALTH, BUNCH OF PIGS
During the first day of the Premier League in
1992, there were 11 non British players on the
fields of the PL. From the season 2004/2005, they
were 45%, a percentage that has only slightly
fluctuated, and that also touches coaches. The
impact of this trend on the national team is a
purely internal debate, but also a little poluted.
Because England is living on the memories of its
1966 World Cup won at home, whereas it wasnt
more competitive when its clubs dominated
Europe with mainly English players in the 1980's.
Today, it only has another excuse.
This influx of money makes England a paradise
for players and agents. But others pay the cost of
this paradise, by their subscriptions to SKY and
BT Sport, or their tickets to stadiums. Since the
announcement of this contract, the debate has
begun on the usage of this money for the profit of
fans. Saturday, at the kick off of Crystal Palace-
Liverpool, the ultras of Selhurst Park, the only
ones in the country, showed a banner "5 billion
pounds, but fans are still exploited. Share the
wealth, bunch of pigs."
Others were more polite. The former Liverpool
defender Jamie Carragher requested 20 pound
seats for away fans. Gary Lineker suggested to
"reduce prices to allow real fans to go to games" .
But the movement seems irreversible: In their
stadiums, PL clubs prefer having 70% of tourists,
often times Asians who pay a lot, than 90% real
fans who spend less.
While this wealth may accentuate the trend of
certain clubs hounding players (Chelsea loaned 27
players this season, who are forbidden to play
against them!), the fundamental gulf, the true
"NBA-ization" of English football will touch its
marketing. The PL already dominateds the world
and will expand this domination, particularly on
the asian market. It will from now be visible from
Friday to Monday. Its the return of the Empire on
which the sun never sets.
VINCENT DULUC

The above is an article by L'equippe. Shitting in their pants already.

CSTR2:
The above is an article by L'equippe.
Shitting in their pants already.

They should. The premier league storm is going to hit Europe so hard, they will all be crying for help.

Man Utd had financial power yet still lost Beckham Ronaldo, and Nistelrooy to Madrid

The only thing it would bring is more silly transfers for exorbitant fees. Andy Carrol would now go for 80m, Lamela would be bought for 100m, Cuadrado would go for 80m

EPL top 4 clubs have spent more money than most other clubs in recent times and still suck badly

Crap, if its by money, Juventus wont have been in the final of the UCL. Everton is far richer than Sevilla but Everton cant smell Europa League

raumdeuter:
Man Utd had financial power yet still lost Beckham Ronaldo, and Nistelrooy to Madrid
The only thing it would bring is more silly transfers for exorbitant fees. Andy Carrol would now go for 80m, Lamela would be bought for 100m, Cuadrado would go for 80m
EPL top 4 clubs have spent more money than most other clubs in recent times and still suck badly

Like I predicted

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/premier-league/11723137/Premier-League-clubs-are-being-fobbed-off-with-overpriced-B-listers.html

raumdeuter:
Man Utd had financial power yet still lost Beckham Ronaldo, and Nistelrooy to Madrid

The only thing it would bring is more silly transfers for exorbitant fees. Andy Carrol would now go for 80m, Lamela would be bought for 100m, Cuadrado would go for 80m

EPL top 4 clubs have spent more money than most other clubs in recent times and still suck badly

Manunited does not have the spending power of real madrid.
Yes, they are probably as rich but they don't spend as much due to various exigencies.
With the new deals coming in England in the coming years, EPL clubs would be so wealthy that they would virtually blow everybody else out of the water.
I don't think a ronaldo will want to go to real madrid to earn €350,000 a week when he can earn €550,000 at manunited.

Bump

Two years later, how's your prediction coming on?



English fans and mouth.

8 years left, best hope they win even once!