The BPL isn’t shown here so it’s not making the impact of the IPL. The IPL has the very best players the same marketing for this league.
Be interesting to know how popular it actually is outside the cricket nations mind, if it’s the example for this then I wouldn’t watch it.
BPL is shown in regional Star networks so it’s available across Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and SL. That’s a good enough market.
I didn’t understand your second point/paragraph.
I’m not convinced by the loss of competition argument. And good piece btw…
Its not supported by evidence from other sports that have gone this road before.
Like all new things there is apprehension and then peeps get used to it.
Last conservative I voted for.
Now you know why he left…
What will happen if this ESL fails? I don’t see FSG sticking around for long. Who will be the new owners? Saudi Prince! Chinese oligarch!
We could always have a whip-round on TAN.
They have knocked back groups interest in buying us over the last few years, I think they’ll take up the next decent offer
The club is valued at around 1B. What kind of people have that kind of money 
No one who could be trusted to do it for the right reasons
Hopefully they pull out now. Surely if City have we will
Evidently they’re meeting tonight to discuss scrapping the whole thing. Feels like it’s only delaying the inevitable, though. this will happen eventually.
Massive gambit. Absolutely f*cked. Only a matter of time before Atletico and Barca pull out. Then what?
The latest investment we got was probably contingent on the ESL going through. What happens there? This feels like Gillett and Hicks all over again.
Don’t worry. There are plenty people to buy a club worth 1B 
To be honest Hicks and Gillet is something I was envisaging three or four years down the line when they couldn’t recoup the costs of this tournament because their new fans weren’t as lucrative as the old ones
FSG needs to make right decision now. We are ran very well financially, we don’t need that financially windfall from participating in ESL.
Do the right thing, be a Man!
Its mind boggling how this shitshow got off the ground in the first place. I think the cabal of plutocrats whether it’s big tech or venture capitalists or private equity are so divorced from the reality of the rest of the world that they just cant envision outcomes like this despite having some really clever people on board.
I know FSG have been in on wanting to shake up the viewing rights etc and there total disdain for the fans is appaling, however, is the complete an utter failing of the FFP a factor in their decision making and they said fuck it if we can’t beat em, join em?
FSG are so used to the N.A model of sports franchises. They need to realize it’s a different model here in Europe. However, I do agree that each team should be given more autonomy in selling their own broadcasting rights and so on.
There’s a great point in here. UEFA has shown that FFP has absolutely no teeth to it at all, so the idea that there is anything resembling a “level playing field” is a complete myth. I think the ESL was a shitty, ham-fisted way to acknowledge that, and basically take advantage of it in an attempt to consolidate power at the top with the richest/biggest clubs in Europe. The fact that they acted so secretively without input from anyone else is probably what fucked it more than anything, tbh.