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Liverpool looking too break EPL collective TV rights

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Liverpool want a bigger slice of EPL's TV money.As a lifelong United supporter individual tv rights would most likely benefit us the most,however its the even spread of tv money that means our league is the most unpredictable from week to week.It was only a matter of time before one of the foreign owners made this play,shame a company owning a "traditional"(as can be in franchise usa) baseball team(red sox) was the first one too break ranks.This really cant be allowed to happen but im afraid it will.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...-us-agree-our-own-tv-rights-deal-2369072.html
 
User Guide said:
its the even spread of tv money that means our league is the most unpredictable from week to week.

I beg your pardon?

I think the Ligue 1 (France) or the Bundesliga (Germany) are far more unpredictable, both in terms of weekly results and in terms of who finishes where.
The last time another team than ManU, Arsenal or Chelsea have won the title was 1995 (Blackburn). In the same period, there have been 7 different champions in France (a.o. Nantes, Lens or Lille who have also all been in the Ligue 2 since 1995 - that wouldn't happen for the big English teams; it just wouldn't) and 6 different champions in Germany (a.o. Kaiserslautern as a newly-promoted team or Wolfsburg).
Granted, Olympique Lyon and Bayern München have won more than half of the titles in the last 15 years.

But saying the English Premier League is the most unpredictable is wrong in my eyes.

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That said, I agree that spreading the TV money (relatively) even is the best way to distribute them. Look at Spain to see what happens if you don't; Real Madrid and Barcelona are light years ahead of the rest.
 
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Fus087 said:
I beg your pardon?

I think the Ligue 1 (France) or the Bundesliga (Germany) are far more unpredictable, both in terms of weekly results and in terms of who finishes where.
The last time another team than ManU, Arsenal or Chelsea have won the title was 1995 (Blackburn). In the same period, there have been 7 different champions in France (a.o. Nantes, Lens or Lille who have also all been in the Ligue 2 since 1995 - that wouldn't happen for the big English teams; it just wouldn't) and 6 different champions in Germany (a.o. Kaiserslautern as a newly-promoted team or Wolfsburg).
Granted, Olympique Lyon and Bayern München have won more than half of the titles in the last 15 years.

But saying the English Premier League is the most unpredictable is wrong in my eyes.

EDIT:
That said, I agree that spreading the TV money (relatively) even is the best way to distribute them. Look at Spain to see what happens if you don't; Real Madrid and Barcelona are light years ahead of the rest.
You are absolutely right,Im also sure that the scottish 3rd division is less predictable still.I should of clarified in that is much more unpredictable in relation too its main competitor La Liga.