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Celtic67 said:It's absolutely crazy. Thing is, though, these big clubs wouldn't pay this kind of money unless they thought it was worth it. The money from the Sky deal is crazy, but it's presumably funded by enough people who want to sit at home watching the product.
antdad said:It isn't crazy and tbh the player greed argument is a little tired if not naive...the top tier clubs are global businesses with worldwide fan bases attracting huge sponsorship while generating many many hundreds of millions of dollars.
It simply has everything to do with how many folks chose to pay and watch either live or through their TV subs...Utd and Chelsea for example will undertake US tours during the summer and hundreds of thousands will be paying to see them play and if that were the case for other sports their players could also command stratospheric salaries and frankly deservedly so.
antdad said:It isn't crazy and tbh the player greed argument is a little tired if not naive...the top tier clubs are global businesses with worldwide fan bases attracting huge sponsorship while generating many many hundreds of millions of dollars.
It simply has everything to do with how many folks chose to pay and watch either live or through their TV subs...Utd and Chelsea for example will undertake US tours during the summer and hundreds of thousands will be paying to see them play and if that were the case for other sports their players could also command stratospheric salaries and frankly deservedly so.
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