Sir Gallagher wrote: » We are being paid in 625,000,000 packets of Banshee Bones, 10 by the week. Deal should be wrapped up in about a million years or so. Of course the whole landscape of football will have changed by then. Liverpool F.C will be renamed The Peoples Republic of Cabra, captained by none other than a humanoid created through advanced robotics and the DNA of Freddy Adu, who fortunately has ceased living by being encased in a giant globule of amber. His DNA will have been extracted, of course, using the same method as Richard Attenborough's character in Jurrasic Park. If anyone tells you otherwise, they are a fibber.
Fescue wrote: » I would imagine that's it for Martin Kelly. Also likely to be the end of Wisdom at the club if they are pursuing someone younger and less experienced. There are a lot of players facing the axe in the coming weeks.
Turtyturd wrote: » It will be knocked off the fee next season when 'Louie' comes 'home'.
mormank wrote: » It's crazy that they get away with that tbh. It gives them such an advantage over other top European clubs. An unfair one imo.
ArmaniJeanss wrote: » But ultimately if an EPL team wished to go it alone then there would be nothing to stop them.
The absence of Emre Can was noted too, with the Germany Under-21 international sitting out because of the injury sustained against Preston at the weekend.
Early observations were made, both useful and irreverent. Jordon Ibe looked happy and confident; Fabio Borini looked determined; Jordan Henderson had seemingly grown even taller; Glen Johnson had grown his hair.
Once a ball was introduced, the players came alive. They split into two groups and worked through the familiar drill of one player being placed in the middle, while those who circled him passed it around. Whoever gave the ball away became the defender. Close control, movement and first touch were essential. Colin Pascoe, who took one of the groups, exhibited all three routinely. In that group, Philippe Coutinho, Raheem Sterling, Ibe, Gerrard and Adam Lallana contributed to a score of 31. In the other group, Lazar Markovic shone. His touch was fantastic, even when the ball was drilled at him; the Serbian had even caught the eye earlier, his balletic movement when dribbling a ball quite something.
All this in front of what had now become 40 or 50 spectators, peering through the chainlink fence. Some were fanatical, while others just wanted to see the players in action; one person even dedicated his time to showing Borini a lot of love through song.
rarnes1 wrote: » Sure about that?
K-9 wrote: » Good blog piece on the tour. He must have got his own private jet over seeing as according to twitter reports he wasn't on the plane yesterday!
ArmaniJeanss wrote: » Not really that crazy, other clubs are also free to make their own TV deals but have chosen to go a collective route. But ultimately if an EPL team wished to go it alone then there would be nothing to stop them (though it would cause a major earthquake throughout the English game obviously).
Underpaid Mike wrote: » If tv cash was paid out on viewership figures for each team over the season it would look like this. (not done by me but by some nerd on reddit fyi)
ardinn wrote: » If Barca are a day late with the rest of the payment for Suarez we should take him back! And keep the 54m. That'd be great business!!
Rayne Wooney wrote: » Is that not just for BT?
Every club gets an ‘equal’ share of £52,198,111, which derives from domestic TV income (£21,631,444 per club), overseas income (£26,295,817) and commercial income (£4,270,850). Every club then gets another sum depending on league position, worth £1,236,083 per place in the table, from that sum for bottom-placed Cardiff to £24,721,600 to winners City. Each club also gets a variable amount depending on how many times they were shown live on Sky or BT this season. Every club got a minimum of £8.6m from this pot, even if they were shown as rarely as Stoke (just seven live televised games). Liverpool, shown 28 times, got £21.9m in these ‘facility fees’. This season’s rewards are a huge leap on last season’s TV income, with Liverpool earning £42.7m more than season than last, for example. Clubs have three main revenue streams: match day income (from tickets, corporate dining etcetera), media income (of which the payments listed are the largest but not the only part) and commercial income (from kit deals, sponsorship, merchandise, tours and so on).
Underpaid Mike wrote: » Full overview of the cash herehttp://www.sportingintelligence.com/2014/05/14/where-the-money-went-liverpool-top-premier-league-prize-cash-in-2013-14-140501/
Rayne Wooney wrote: » I'm not talking about the cash part, I think those viewership figures are based on BT alone which is a bit misleading because they showed more Liverpool games than any other team and therefore would have had a lot more Liverpool subscribers than Sky or Setanta.
Each club also gets a variable amount depending on how many times they were shown live on Sky or BT this season. Every club got a minimum of £8.6m from this pot, even if they were shown as rarely as Stoke (just seven live televised games). Liverpool, shown 28 times, got £21.9m in these ‘facility fees’.
Underpaid Mike wrote: » Did you not read the article? It says they were shown 28 times across sky and BT and explains where the money comes from including MOTD etc
K-9 wrote: » Just looking at the total number of games and nothing else (don't know enough otherwise tbh) it looks like it is all games. BT were limited in the amount of games they could show from one club, about 10 IIRC, and that was used up in January. Obviously didn't expect us to be in a title challenge or competing for 4th for that matter! Added bonus of not listening to Owen for half a season.
K-9 wrote: » I seriously don't know where people get this view of Wisdom, he seems to be getting treated the right way, loan to Championship, then WBA and should be ready to fit into the squad next season. Whiff of Sterling about this stuff. Good blog piece on the tour. He must have got his own private jet over seeing as according to twitter reports he wasn't on the plane yesterday! Johnson growing more hair is a good sign, shows a competitive streak {get it?) in the important luvly hair competition. Nothing particularly new there, well apart from Markovic should be a "fine" player at least. My personal bit was the Borini song. suarezistheman?
Rayne Wooney wrote: » So Liverpool were watched 36 million times last season on all channels?
Fescue wrote: » Why send Wisdom out on loan and then draft in another young right back from Spain with less experience and a year younger? I thought after his fine year at Derby he would challenge Glenjo this season. Signing Manquillo suggests to me Wisdom is not rated by the club.
Underpaid Mike wrote: » Ok first off its not my table It is an follow on from a sporting intelligence article which I posted A guy on reddit adjusted the table out of curiosity to see what it would look like if there wasnt a set fee agree for tv rights like in other countries. The 36m viewership figure is simply his total revenue figure divided by the £m per viewers number in the right hand column. It is far from data science. It is meant as a "what if" And for the third time it will make more sense if you actually read the article instead of asking me questions about it :eek:
Raif Severance wrote: » I don't think Rodgers and Co. see Wisdom as a RB for Liverpool. I think he's being Groomed to be a Future CB for us. That's why he's being Sent on Loan, to Gain more Experience.
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