Finance guru: Liverpool could cause ‘conflict’ at Premier League HQ with bid to soar past £266m
Liverpool and their elite Premier League peers could cause “major conflict” within the Premier League in the event that the league attempts to start its own in-house highlights platform.
That is the view of finance expert Doctor Dan Plumley, speaking exclusively to Football Insider about Serie A’s move to introduce an OTT streaming service.
As relayed by Sports Pro on Monday (11 July), the Italian league’s decision-makers are planning to launch a new media platform in time for the 2022-23 campaign.
Liverpool earned £266.1million in media income in 2020-21, the last financial year on record.
But the Reds were central to both the Project Big Picture and Super League plots, which made provisions for top clubs to sell their own rights in a move that analysts agree would be disproportionately lucrative for the top-flight’s elite.
Plumley therefore anticipates that Liverpool would push back against the Premier League if they attempted to emulate Serie A and sell the rights themselves.
“I think the Premier League would consider it,” he told Football Insider’s Adam Williams.
“I think the friction, however, would be between the league and the clubs. At the Premier League level, the bigger clubs like Liverpool would probably think they could do it themselves and get more for it. That would cause major conflict.
“So yes, the Premier League would consider it. But they would need a majority vote to get that over the line.
“The ‘Big Six’ would be key to that. They would look at the value of any deal and likely think they could do it themselves.”
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