Parachute payments

[Edward Alistair]

UEFA have a nice little gig running, but its built on sand. If 2 or 3 big National associations wanted to shake things up UEFA could find themselves sitting in the street. At the end of the day they are just blotter jockies. They like to throw their weight about, but they dont actully own or produce the product.

I wonder when the next round of tv deals happen whether Saudi will blow everyone out of the water and start their takeover of football, imagine if they had their own tv stations that bought out all worthwhile tv deals then set up their own european/worldwide leagues to compete against UEFA/FIFA, who would stop clubs leaving the established order to join them for their billions?

 

[E18 wall]

They've done it in boxing and the sheikh has got Warren and hearn on a string , previous unmakeable fights are sorted in double quick time.