Apr
23
12:00pm
The European Super League: A Discussion | InSport Education FREE Webinar
By InSport Education
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Kieran Maguire - Author of The Price of Football and Senior Teacher at the University of Liverpool
Rowena Samarasinhe - Managing Director of GenSPORT
Tim Dowd - Insight, Strategy, and Media Rights Valuation Consultant. Formerly of Sky
Faye Carruthers - Sports broadcaster and journalist with talkSPORT and Sky Sports
Dr Rob Wilson - Academic Director at InSport Education and Head of Department at Sheffield Business School
The short-lived rise and fall of the proposed European Super League has laid bare many of the systemic tensions within the football business ecosystem.
Privately owned clubs want to de-risk their assets by moving towards 'closed-shop' competitions, where TV monies are reliable year-on-year, and not tied to on-field performances.
Fans, players, managers, pundits and even politicians, meanwhile, hold the competitive element of football to be sacred and protested against the "greed" of the 12 European clubs who set up the ESL.
But now, as discussion turns towards a post-mortem of the ESL, public scrutiny is re-examining the anti-competition elements already built in to the football ecosystem:
- Financial distribution of TV rights weighted towards top clubs
- Financial Fair Play proposals that advantage the 'Big 6'
- Higher win bonuses and new "heritage payments" in Uefa competitions
- A decline of solidarity payments
- Privately-owned clubs operating as for-profit business ventures
Many within the football business space are now talking of the need for a re-appraisal and re-balancing of the status quo.
How will the 'Big 6' repair their relationships with fans? Will we see a mass exodus of management - and even ownership - from these clubs?
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