Dr Dan Plumley

Wed 16 February 2022 10:00, UK

Man City are perfectly placed to profit from the “new dawn” in European club football promised by Nasser al-Khelaifi.

That is the view of finance expert Doctor Dan Plumley, speaking exclusively to Football Insider about the historic new Champions League rights deal.

The Times reported last Wednesday (9 February) that the package is projected to be worth £4.2billion per season from 2024.

Al-Khelaifi, head of the European Club Association and president of Paris Saint-Germain, claims the deal is a death knell for the Super League plot.

The Qatari luminary is also quoted as saying the groundbreaking agreement represents a “new dawn of financial stability and opportunity.”

City were one of the only teams in Europe to turn a profit for the season after they reached the Champions League final in 2020-21

And Plumley argues that they will be one of the main beneficiaries from the new broadcast deal.

“It’s structured in a way that puts the likes of Man City at an advantage,” the Sheffield Hallam University expert told Football Insider‘s Adam Williams.

“Unless they change the distribution models, this is always going to skew towards the elite clubs.

“It’s not so much the entry fee and the match bonuses but rather the coefficient payments and market pool.

“Coefficient payments are based on the success of the club over the last 10 years.

“That benefits clubs like City who have a unique advantage from regularly reaching the latter stages.

“The market pool is distributed in accordance with the value of each TV market.

“The English clubs have always benefited more there because of the value of their TV deal. If you put all that together, the bigger clubs will benefit.”

The Premier League is also set to rake in over £10bn from its next rights cycle.

The new cache of investment represents the first time overseas rights have overtaken the vale of the domestic deal.

In other news, ex-Fifa official issues “significant” claim as controversial Man City footage analysed.