“Give me an English club and I will move the transfer market & rdquor ;. Paraphrasing to Archimedes, So we could very quickly summarize how the football industry works in the summer and what sustains the profitability of many European teams each year. And it happens for obvious reasons: they have an audiovisual market that doubles that of their competitors, hence in part that the premier league be light years ahead in TV revenue; They have a shareholding map that guarantees that some clubs go to a loss every year if necessary, and their currency, the pound, is worth more than the euro, which makes it easier for them to pay higher salaries.
Hence, the British competition is the great key to the money in the marketas can be the Bundesliga for the entire Central European football ecosystem. And that has been one of the great evils of The league in times of covid. The idea of stopcocks is copyright of a general director of Spanish football, who uses that term with the idea that the money passes through a pipe from England to Spain -and any other country- and from there it begins to go down through the different conduits, which are the clubs and that goes from top to bottom.
A clear example is that of Sadiq, to which the UD Almeria has been able to sell to Real society for 20 million, taking advantage of the fact that the people of San Sebastian took 70 million for sending Isaac to the NewcastleUnited. In turn, that money has gone in small amounts to other teams that, with the bills, have acquired one or several pieces. And so the money flows and feeds back into the system, always in need of a first agitator.
That domino effect is what Spanish executives have been waiting for over the last two years, as LaLiga took the monkey wrench to close the national stopcock to contain losses during the pandemic. Some clubs asked for flexibility to boost the domestic market in the face of the drought in exports, since that operation did not come from the Premier that opened the floodgates of money. Confronted between supporters of austerity or stimulus, the truth is that The league is -if the effect of the restructuring of the Barca– the great competition that has lost the least money between 2019 and 2021.
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How important is England to Spain? Very much. The Spanish clubs are the ones that invoiced the most in the international transfer market between 2010 and 2020, with 6,200 million dollars (1,000 million more than England), according to data from FIFA. And the corridor between the two countries is the one that has moved the most money: 2,435.8 million dollars in 367 transfers from Spanish to English clubs.
An eSports place that is worth more than a club
Electronic sports are called to be -if they are not already- one of the great entertainment products. And proof of this is the value of the places to compete in tournaments like LEC, which would be like the Champions League of League of Legendsthe video game that has best worked the adaptation of the gaming to the football business model. It is a Super League, in which the teams have a fixed place upon payment of a million. How many? Team Heretics, one of the most important teams in Spain, has invested 35 million euros in acquiring its place, a significant revaluation compared to the 26.5 million that Schalke 04 -yes the Bundesliga team- pocketed when it sold their rights in this tournament.
Much or little? Think that the valuations that were used in the sale processes of CD Leganés or Real Sporting set the valuation of 100% of the capital below 40 million euros. In other words, esports teams are already paid more than some of LaLiga. To consider.