The Premier League announced new rules including an Owners’ Charter, committing club owners to the “core principles of the Premier League.”
Manchester United fans stormed the stadium, shouting and setting off flares. Anger against team owners swelled after the Super League fiasco.
BT Sport, the sports-broadcast division of British telecommunications BT Group, could be sold to a U.S.-based media company.
The British government could clear the way for the English Premier League to avoid a rights auction this year.
NBC Sports wants to renew its U.S. media rights deal with the English Premier League. NBC’s $1 billion, six-year deal is up in May, 2022. But rival ESPN and CBS Sports are likely to make a play for Premier League rights.
The European Super League is falling apart at the seams, with Chelsea and other founding clubs quitting before the competition even gets started.
A dozen European teams have agreed to found the breakaway European Super League, pitting major global forces against one another.
A representative for Boris Johnson said the U.K. Prime Minister did not “intervene” in Saudi Arabia’s attempt to purchase Newcastle United.
DAZN is considering an IPO. The move would make it the first global sports streaming company to be listed publicly.
Agent fees totaled about $240 million annually in 2016, but were more than $376 million between February 2020 and February 2021.
