PREMIER LEAGUE SET TO LOSE $53 MILLION BY CANCELING RUSSIAN TV DEAL

June 7, 2022
3 years ago

The English first class will purportedly scrap its concurrence with Match TV

 

The Premier League and its clubs stand to pass up £43 million ($54 million) when they drop a three-year TV contract with a lead Russian telecaster this week, as per reports.

 

The Daily Mail professes to have discovered that the English first class will destroy its concurrence with Match TV - which was set to begin in August for the impending season - when clubs meet at the AGM in Harrogate, North Yorkshire on Thursday.

 

The Premier League was supposed to defer a choice on its relationship with Match TV because of the slim chance of an arranged settlement and the time before the new arrangement was set to start.

 

However with the continuous Russia's tactical activity in Ukraine end of the three-year game plan looks set to be concluded in the following couple of days.

 

In the midst of UK sanctions on people, for example, previous Chelsea proprietor Roman Abramovich, who had his resources frozen for his supposed associations with President Putin and sold the club last month, the Premier League had proactively suspended a past arrangement with Russia's Rambler Media in March.

 

This paid just £6 million ($7.5 million) a season, yet the Premier League and its clubs are leaving a far greater amount of $54 million more than three years by dismissing Match TV.