Mel Morris takes on the EFL

[Luke_1884]

This has been kicking around for a few weeks now but no mention on here. There's a lot of detail but as a brief conclusion we're staging a friendly match at Pride Park in April with Leeds to test the water as far as managing our own media rights go. He believes we (as in everybody) should be generating much more revenue than the current Sky Sports deal from avenues such as social media and online streaming.

It'll be interesting to see how this goes, all 72 clubs were represented at Pride Park yesterday where our chairman held a meeting about his plans.

Derby chairman Mel Morris claimed he could bring in £300million a year for Football League TV rights compared to the £90m-a-year Sky deal he complains is not nearly good enough.

The highly optimistic Morris told a meeting of FL clubs at Pride Park that televising and streaming far more FL matches than the Sky contract allows would narrow the gap to the Premier League.

Bristol City owner Steve Lansdown led the support for Morris, describing the Sky agreement as a ‘bag of nails’ and calls for the Derby chief to lead the FL’s negotiation process for the next TV contract were not opposed, although few owners were present.

The FL say they are recruiting an independent broadcast rights adviser but are happy for Morris to play a part in future TV rights talks.

 

[Hooped Wizard]

What an odd name for someone who claims to have a penis.