waauw wrote:betiko wrote:sempaispellcheck wrote:nietzsche wrote:What do you guys know of the possible strike in La Liga, starting on the 16th, the weekend Barca visits Atleti?
From what I've heard:
1) The Spanish gov't wants TV revenues split more evenly, and the league doesn't like that, so it's claiming excessive gov't interference in its affairs, and
2) The players are on board with the strike because the gov't proposal gives 1% of revenues to players in other sports, but none to players in La Liga.
sempai
the rights of the liga in spain are negociated club by club in order to give the giggest part of the cake to madrid and barcelona, in an absolutely unfair way.
Last week the LFP came to an agreement to mutualise TV rights to sell the liga as a whole as a product, just as all the other leagues do.
I didn't look too much into what happened yesterday, but f*ck madrid and barcelona. Complete unfair system. Just look at the premier league and how evenly TV rights are split from first till last...
In france a big part of the cake of the TV rights is given to amateur football. It's important to have all those small clubs competing at a more modest level and it's very hard for them to make ends meet.
The spanish league is the worse kind of capitalistic shit system. Not to mention how corrupted it is and how all cheaters get away with their shit. I've never seen a spanish club retrograded to the lower division because of their cheating. At the end of each season tons of money are moved from one club to another to get help from clubs that have nothing in play. There are countless revealed stories and nothing is ever done about it. In france when some story like that comes ot, the cheater always end up playing one division bellow the next year; same thing if their budget ends up in negatives and they can't do anything to cope with their money losses. The spanish don't give a shit about anything and it's all about corruption.
I agree. There is a reason why the german and british clubs are so rich and so much more competitive than the spanish competition. In the long run it's a lot more fun if the champions league tickets aren't always given to the same clubs. In Germany, except for Bayern, you constantly see other teams show up for european tickets. And in England there are way more teams competing for them than there are in Spain. The spanish competition is like a feodal system where the top teams let the others fight for grains while they stuff their faces. It just seems like such an outdated system.
as a real betis fan I can tell you it's really annoying, you have to add the media coverage. Each time I go to spain and I see a TV football show I get really angry. Say you have an atletico-valencia being the only game played that night, and they won't give a shit. They would start talking for hours how cristiano ronaldo looked sad 3 days ago on the field, how messi might not be agreeing with some recent changes in the system, what will happen in both team's games in the next 4 games. 95% of the programs will be about madrid and barcelona casual talking, and that % has just been growing over the years, just as the TV rights they get.
The worse part is that there is barely any football analysis about anything. It's all about rumours of this and that player that are not getting along, what they should recruit during the summer, how bad their coaches are and who should replace them, the new tattoo tiddledee made on his shoulder, tiddledoo that has been seen on a night out drinking, and tiddlewee's new car. Makes me puke, spanish people get totally lobotomized by all that shit. It really wasn't like that 10-20 years ago.
Germany has some awfully shit TV rights dude. When bayern wins the bundesliga, they get like 4 times less TV money than the guy who finishes last of the EPL. In Germany the stadiums are always full and people pay a decent amount of money for their tickets. Clubs are very cautious with what they spend and are very reasonable. The complete opposite of spain where they all spend money they don't have and no one gives a shit about it. So club A sells tiddledoo to club B; but club B ends up not paying because they don't have the money. Club A with that money has recruited other players but now can't pay for it because club B didn't respect its financial agreement. Most of the clubs don't pay their taxes because they are so terribly managed and the government always gives tax credits, nothing is ever done to stop their shit system. Of course, if it's a small club it's ok to f*ck them up, but if you're madrid or barcelona nothing will ever be done to you, it's always threats in the air.
Then if the UEFA does something, spanish people always blame Platini.
