A separate TV rights deal?

Anyway back on topic, I wouldn't mind selling our broadcasting rights to the highest bidder, but I'd loathe to see us become part of a european super league, unless they done with the european cup and the europa and just put the teams into a league format that seen midweek games as european games and the current premier league stayed as it was.

It is so nice to see all my friends together in a single thread ... I've started to miss you over the past few weeks ...

On topic. If I am going to have to warn one user for going off topic I will warn you all.

Havent posted in a while but some of the stuff in here is way over the top whether people agree with opinions or not some of the stuff is a bit much. It aint good to read right back into lurking mode

Havent posted in a while but some of the stuff in here is way over the top whether people agree with opinions or not some of the stuff is a bit much. It aint good to read right back into lurking mode

Welcome back Corb, been waiting in the Adam thread for ye

It won't happen,as much as the vast majority of us would want it, there are 14 other reasons why it wont, and after Whelan's inane comments he will be leading the other 13 chairmen making sure they all say no, the other clubs such as Mancs,Chavs,Citeh and the Goons are already in the secure position of having stadia to sustain the revenue coming thru the turnstiles,

 we are the only club out of the top six who do not yet have that luxury, Spuds will be sorted once the Olympic charade has disappeared over the horizon, and then move into their tax-payer/lotto funded new home,

 so Dave whelan you can go F**k yourself,and what will it matter to you anyway, your,''we will rely on hand-outs from the big clubs, and parachute payments''  shitty wee club from the land of the egg shaped ball, are heading for oblivion, sinking like a concrete block chucked off Wigan pier, and the only disappointing thing about that is, your not f***in tied to it.
KUNT

I would be absolutely ashamed if clubs were to go to the wall because of the greed of the bigger clubs. Our league system is the best league system in the world. Just look at the lower league attendances. The top clubs are pricing the average Joe out of going week in week out, so some of  those fans like to go to the lower league games. I know i did anyway. Its the Spanish that need to get their house in order, maybe they should look at how we do it rather than us look at them. I wouldnt want sucess if it meant 5-10 clubs shutting down regardless of who they are or where they are situated.

so Dave whelan you can go f**k yourself,and what will it matter to you anyway, your,''we will rely on hand-outs from the big clubs, and parachute payments''  sh*tty wee club from the land of the egg shaped ball, are heading for oblivion, sinking like a concrete block chucked off Wigan pier, and the only disappointing thing about that is, your not f***in tied to it.
KUNT

brilliant

Ian Ayre's Proposal to Negotiate Separate Television Deal Will Help Liverpool Keep Luis Suarez and Win Battle of Brands

Liverpool managing director Ian Ayre wants to move away from the collective sale of overseas television rights. The proposal is a bold step toward taking "The Liverpool Way" deep into the future.

Ayre is fighting this battle over the largest source of income for English clubs to ensure "Brand Liverpool" continues to reach its existing 40 million fans and creates many more in the years ahead.

If he wins, Liverpool will be able to attract and retain top players like Luis Suarez. The team will invest in infrastructure that will allow it to compete with the biggest and richest clubs in the world under UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules, which come into effect in 2012. They require clubs to balance their books at the end of each season, meaning they can only spend a proportion of the income they generate. Simply put, the more money Liverpool generates, the more it can spend.

"The Liverpool Way" and "Brand Liverpool" are the set of values the club –- players, staff, supporters and legends -– champions and the world admires. The values include are the spirit of unity, justice, collective effort toward a common goal and excellence in results (among others). The Reds' history of on-field excellence is a mere reflection of these values. Those connected with the club have adopted and internalized these values, regardless of their location.

Make no mistake, these connections span the globe. Liverpool FC is a global club, whose live games are watched by its global fan base. Anfield may be located on Merseyside, but Liverpool belongs to the world now.

The Reds may play the bulk of their games against English competition on weekends, but the club's ethos is in direct competition with those of the other super-clubs in the global marketplace. This market is open every day, as the airwaves and Internet are filled to the brim with soccer, soccer-related discussion and commerce.

Barcelona's "mas que un club," Real Madrid's white-shirted Royalty, AC Milan's cosmopolitanism dressed in designer Italian style, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal and others have appealing philosophies that attract eyeballs and dollars/pounds/euros from across the globe.

"The Liverpool Way" is in direct competition with these philosophies and needs to maximize television revenue to compete in this market. Ayre is correct. Bolton, Sunderland and even Aston Villa are not in the same league.

Detractors say allowing individual clubs to negotiate TV deals will increase the rift between the haves and the have-nots in the English game and make Premier League less competitive. News flash: The EPL created that rift, and the league is not that competitive to begin with. Every year, the same four to six teams compete for Champions League places, and only two or three of them have realistic chances of winning the league. Those outside that select group go deeper into debt with each passing year just to maintain the facade of "competitiveness" for another round of television negotiations.

Liverpool's domestic income is close to topping out. The aging stadium is filled on weekends, ticket prices are higher than ever and every red scouser owns at least one LFC shirt. As 2011 draws to a close, Liverpool cannot compete at the top end of the salary market (which, by the way, has the highest correlation to winning). World-class players like Suarez demand world-class salaries and those demands are always increasing.

Overseas television rights for live EPL games went for £1.4 billion ($2.2 billion) for the years 2010-13. That number is expected to increase in the years 2013-16, surpassing the £2.1 ($3.3 billion) value of the domestic deal.

By taking a greater share of that cash, Liverpool will have a better shot of knocking Manchester United off its perch and possibly winning "it" (the European Cup/UEFA Champions League) five more times.

Yes, Liverpool's proposal to get a separate TV deal is motivated by self-interest. But that interest is rooted in the desire to share a noble cause known as "The Liverpool Way" with the rest of the world.

http://www.nesn.com/2011/10/ian-ayres-proposal-to-negotiate-separate-television-deal-will-help-liverpool-keep-luis-suarez-and-win-battle-of-brands.html