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koran a pandemic a reporter. just like everyone else and she's looking for answers and thankfully with the help of a living expense. thank you is not life as we know it. our new web series. this is probably the biggest crisis. since world war 2. the death toll from the. rise of rocket shock rises late lug octaves. that and

democrats trying to work hard on the next one nasa doesn't please cover your nose and now think of the country and so. the coronavirus is changing the world as we know it but how is it changing for people people who need those kind of unprepared to do thankless sure there's no question that this will have long lasting consequences not just this year or next year how is it affecting cops players' contracts and wages how's it affecting the transfer market from at least. those who do you. will we still see $200000000.00 euro blockbuster transfers or is this the beginning of something new it's still hard to imagine but if we see football being played at all it will be like this football without fans that's the new normal and will be for the foreseeable future but why is corona such a big problem for football clubs and their business models why are their suddenly

struggling to survive if they're not allowed to play it has to do with affect all football clubs make money these days for example europe's top 5 police have 3 main sources of income match day revenue things like tickets food and drinks makes up to 16 percent on average 40 percent is commercial revenue sponsoring hears and so on and the highest proportion is broadcasting deals with 44 percent t.v. money so $2.00 of these men share revenue and t.v. money are gone if there are no games and for smaller teams that broadcast money even more important. here when i am a list of the 2 main. broadcasters have. informed the league that they would not take until cookbook returns to the village now this huge. impact then will have a domino effect from big clubs from clubs to players. from french though and that's

why europe's tropics are so desperate to finish the season ok besides belgium the netherlands affronts by the authorities have to cancel the season's already p.s.g. for example top of the table crowned champions again but everyone else is eager to resume play because that's the only way to get your hands on that t.v. money and that pretty much keeps the clubs alive. the vote is huge it means not only the loss of the. economic model of many clubs is very challenging at the moment we also need to forecast that we probably will have a significant amount of time a year in 2 years in which the broadcast will look different sponsors may be able to pay less because of the general economic downturn the clubs are not reliant on media rights only they can also make money by selling players that's what most of them actually do think of for example they have known for more than 600000000 euros

in transfer fees in the last 5 years it's a multi-million dollar business the transfer market has been skyrocketing for years between 2012 and 29000 the number of transfers went up every year and transfer fees almost tripled club spent more money than ever on transfers and those transfer fees the whole transfer market is even more important for many perhaps outside europe's top leagues just think of all the players from south america coming to europe every year for those clubs selling their best players to the big leagues in europe that's their business model and that is under threat. constantly they are all they are. johnson who is the elite of the club supposed to be going you're. not. doing the wrong it's rooted in the. wrong. and some of the business even call it is.

like the general manager of the club. we get money from the big leagues and teams from smaller leagues get money from us and the chain breaks it reaches every corner of the globe i want to hear from the other side i have an appointment with a player agent usually they don't talk openly to the media got exclusive access. john is an agent from germany he's got several players on a contract. in the premier league. and the bundesliga and the turkish super league are his players prepared to take wage cuts. because.

this is. a. crisis affecting his business as a player agent. moment on. the. legislation. and the players will lose value but how much recent analysis by the international center for sports studies shows the crisis has heavily affected players estimated transfer values like olympic must say. even giants like buy in munich and real madrid are affected their squad lose up to 30 percent of their well you know for the whole football industry that means an estimated drop of $10000000000.00 euros.

it was really. you know. who are left. out of this. and here's an interesting fact younger players who have a lot of potential aren't affected the same way as older ones take leo messi for example he is 32 years old almost 33 his contract runs out in 2021 messi is now worth less than jade and son show was 12 years younger than him since the corner virus pandemic hit europe both had to accept wage cuts and both lost value messy for estimated transfer value dropped by 20 percent sunshine just 10. so will we still see 200000000 euro blockbuster transfers in the future.

oh yes most doing you know. your name. less and. so on and you. think it also does what it will make. money it's ok. but the end up in this mess isn't the product they still make a lot of money because they're the best in the game but what about millions of other players around the globe and especially the ones with contracts running out most of them aren't very modest wages and have very short contracts so course there's a lot of economic pressure on these players as well after the season when many contracts run out we'll see more players. probably freight as looking for continued

employment than ever before because the extensions that normally would have already happened now i'm probably happening later but they're not happening at all so what does all this mean for future transfers will we see more and more players and employ more loan deals maybe a trend we've seen for years now or a swap deal you off of play and even see from the u.s. ranks and you get that players see you want and return to the interesting question is how will football how will collapse just and me lots of little rock. and these prices are very real let's. pull the. very elite. is this the new world of football the rich getting richer and exploiting the smaller crops or struggling to survive the elite clubs where they finally start

a league of their own from shutdowns straight into the european super league or do we need a more radical solution a salary cap maybe a what if we abolish the transfer market altogether she says. and does not exist. because then has published a study on this and he's not the only one who was critical of the current transfer system actually affect the players' union lobby against transfer fees until the fact came in and they made an agreement interesting question actually what would a football world look like without a transfer market doesn't believe in this bush nor did he really low budget numbers involved here almost 50000000 euro and. peaceful player. with a lot of money my boss you transfer system and in the bonus league it's estimated to be more than. $200000000.00 euros per season that's

a crazy amount of money on the other end though abolishing the transfer market would mean no more gossip and smaller teams $1.00 for 6 transfer fees for the youth academy players the players they have invested in wouldn't give us an issue. gets written in fines or you can also get. speedos looking into fish to go and spend it but that's shooting them full speed that we stood aside not to shuffle the symbolism but i can also keep going on them but i see so long to find that you can testify that you seem to be your office and they decide to discuss it so where does football go from here do we come out of this with a better healthier more equal game one thing's for sure football needs to change the question how we need to see it as a chance to probably also change direction in some areas there's going to be a need less is more concept in the future saving more money. more

time she resented. symptom of what's been. pushed us and. those. districts in the into the by. various groups are constantly the market. and the parents are making all the money it means that we will have a serious and meaningful reform regarding agents of d.v.d.'s regarding the transfer of roles and if we bring order into what seems to be a pretty chaotic punishing landscape if this is what we're talking about is not a totally different vocal then i would applaud that.

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