On the listImagine spending 80 million plus on this fat bastard.
Summer Silly Season 2016
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And we haven't bid for him?
Give it time, if Pardew was used his 'smarts', he'd bid £10m plus Bolaise for Benteke.
Seems you were right. Bolasie to Everton for up to £30 million.
If this was footy manager, I'd be switching it off for being ridiculous now.
It's getting plain daft now. When an OK but hardly starry player like Bollocksie goes for £30 mill.you seriously have to start wondering when the football bubble is going to burst.
Leicester have made a €27m bid for Santos forward Gabigol, according to Sky Italia.
Sounds like a word Ranieri might have been expected to say anyway, even if they didn't sign a player by that name.
He'll be a superb signing for them, really hoped we'd be the ones to sign him.
Probably not for at least another 3 to 4 years.
BT challenging Sky for football rights in the UK has sorted the money out for good.
BT has 9m customers, thats 9m multiplied by a minimum of about £17 a month just for your basic line rental. Lets say the average BT customer with TV pays £30 a month thats 3.25bn a year thats not including the businesses who use open reach and the 30m customers they aquired for 12.5bn from deutsche and france tellecom through EE.
And lets face it Skys TV revenue is probably astronomically higher than that.
With both companies putting sport at the heart of what they do and with the customers happy to pay it I cant see any bubble bursting anytime.
We see the player fees and think its mad, we hear what these companies pay for rights and think its mad, but then you think even in base terms at what they get back and you start to see that as an investment allowing United to afford 89m for Pogba is a pretty good return on the investment.
Unless en masse the public decide they dont want pay TV it will ever increase because you can be damn sure your TV subscription is going up a quid a year and that alone is enough to double the TV deals.
BT has 9m customers, thats 9m multiplied by a minimum of about £17 a month just for your basic line rental. Lets say the average BT customer with TV pays £30 a month thats 3.25bn a year thats not including the businesses who use open reach and the 30m customers they aquired for 12.5bn from deutsche and france tellecom through EE.
And lets face it Skys TV revenue is probably astronomically higher than that.
With both companies putting sport at the heart of what they do and with the customers happy to pay it I cant see any bubble bursting anytime.
We see the player fees and think its mad, we hear what these companies pay for rights and think its mad, but then you think even in base terms at what they get back and you start to see that as an investment allowing United to afford 89m for Pogba is a pretty good return on the investment.
Unless en masse the public decide they dont want pay TV it will ever increase because you can be damn sure your TV subscription is going up a quid a year and that alone is enough to double the TV deals.
Rafael van der Vaart to FC Midtjylland.
Alongside Brian Laudrup the biggest star in the Danish league ever when the deal is finalized. Will be interesting to see whether he's here for a prolonged well paid holiday (£400k a year - and to be with his girlfriend) or he actually wants to find his top level again.
Alongside Brian Laudrup the biggest star in the Danish league ever when the deal is finalized. Will be interesting to see whether he's here for a prolonged well paid holiday (£400k a year - and to be with his girlfriend) or he actually wants to find his top level again.
It's going to go the way of the Spanish model if not in the next cycle, definitely the one after that. Where teams do the deal direct with broadcasters, i.e. Liverpool games all shown on Sky, BT, Amazon, et al. There will be overlap where 2 channels potentially showing the same game, but that's the route we are going down. At least it will mean we only need to sign up to one, rather than Sky and BT (although I've binned BT off this year given the lack of European action this year).
I'm kind of hoping people will get sick of paying for these channels and increased match streaming cause Sky/BT etc. to start losing money off the back of these broadcasting deals. Can't see it happening though.
I don't think it'll be that soon.
I think the test for any kind of individual club deal will be on the sat 3pm games. As they're not currently included in the deals & the legislation blocking them being shown is technically grey regards online distribution (it was written when only tv broadcasts were available) it's an ideal jumping off point.
I can see that being pushed next cycle, but it'll be controversial for a number of reasons so I can't see it happening overnight.
Once the individual club deals are struck it will mean that five or six clubs will be pushing for individual tv deals for all games.
Having said that, the premise of all clubs sharing tv rights money is intrinsic to the premiership setup & as such I think there'll be a fight, with the inevitable & futile threats about a European superleague being thrown about by us & Utd amongst others, in order to get an increased share of revenue as a compromise based on what they could get going solo, & keeping the revenue from the previously unbroadcast sat 3pm games to themselves.
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I'm not sure Liverpool is an accurate barometer, but if the amount of people binning off sky & bt here in favour of kodi boxes is anything to go by then they'll really start to suffer this coming year. I know only two close friends with sky or virgin now, both are planning to bin it off as soon as their contracts up cos they have kodi setups, two years ago I could have named at least twenty people with it.
Netflix has made people realise watching on their own schedule is easier & they're used to streaming as an alternative, add in quality streams of games & the ridiculous prices sky charge & it's hardly surprising people are jumping ship.
Are Kodi set ups really that simple?
Piece of piss. Five minutes to add a film & tv addon the first time (two minutes once you know how), another couple of minutes to add a sports addon & if you're prepared to pay about £7 a month for a premium sports one then you have an epg & hd streams with English comms that honestly rivals sky, so you have every tv show & film, including the early hd rips from abroad of films & everything from every broadcaster & on demand site plus all the sport including 3pm kick offs.
It's a no brainer. Were it not for the kids wanting their kids channels I wouldn't even pay my £8 a month for my dodgy virgin channels.
Look at the steps to install exodus. Once this is installed you have pretty much film & tv show you could want.
https://seo-michael.co.uk/how-to-install-exodus-for-kodi/
Bang kodi on your tablet or phone & follow that guide to try it out if you want.
Add kodi to a laptop, phone or tablet & follow that guide I linked.
If you like it grab a raspberrypi 3 or another kodi tv box & you're done. I've got a twenty quid cheapo android box in the bedroom that performs perfectly with kodi on, even the remote works well.
I've only done it on Android, dunno about windows mobile but I'd be surprised if it's not on there. If it's Apple you're out of luck unless it's jailbroken cos Apple are dicks.
If it's android you can just install from the play store.
Yes I have a Tab S so will give it a go, I've just checked on Ebay and there are literally hundreds of boxes on here most saying fully loaded for less than £40. What the hell does that mean? You may want to split this thread and move it to gamers and geeks ha ha.
Juventus and Inter, among others, have also bid. Dont think he'll go to Leicester.
Yeah, makes sense to split it. There's already a kodi thread somewhere there. I'll do it later when I'm on the laptop, splitting threads is a bitch on tapatalk.
Don't buy a fully loaded box. It will be full of mostly outdated addons that are shite & as such will run like shite. Better off getting a cheap kodi android box to start with & adding exodus & a couple of other good ones, it'll run better & you'll know how to add any new addons in future.
Plus the box will almost certainly be half the price if it's not fully loaded.
Don't buy a fully loaded box. It will be full of mostly outdated addons that are shite & as such will run like shite. Better off getting a cheap kodi android box to start with & adding exodus & a couple of other good ones, it'll run better & you'll know how to add any new addons in future.
Plus the box will almost certainly be half the price if it's not fully loaded.
I don't want to derail this thread, but, as someone who's set quite a few of these up, I'd say no. Ish.
If you're tech savvy, and are quite happy with getting involved in configuring them then yes, they're fairly easy to mess around with but do need managing.
e.g, my mother, a pensioner, has her sky/bt box and she work out the planner, series link, recording things, deleting things etc. There is no way she is comfortable with having one of these things or configuring it. Same goes for my sisters.
The main problem I have with them is that they mainly revolve around using free streams for most, and as anyone knows, free streams can and regularly do go down and vary in quality. I have a paid sub to a couple of streaming websites and they offer excellent quality streams and between the two I have 100% uptime, and they both have 'plugins' for kodi (meaning I can watching the streams from their websites or via the kodi box by installing another little app inside kodi like you would on your phone). But everyone I speak to that doesn't have a paid sub are ALWAYS having issues with their kodi boxes and their free streams going down and/or crap stuttering quality, which means you have to do a bit of digging on the net to find a new source and add those into the kodi config. It's not difficult, but it is pissing around. It's not fire and forget like a sky/bt box, but then you're also not paying stupid money for footy every month. People with paid subs seem to have no kodi issues once they're past the original configuration, until their source gets busted (I lost LOF and have never got it back although I think it might still be up).
They are good, but it's not as simple as 'buy box, turn it on, works without you touching it, works for ever'.
I've set up ten plus boxes for people (mostly raspberrypi 3's) & none have issues with tv & films. Sports if they haven't paid for a premium one, yeah, but everyone who's seriously into sports tends to pay for a good sports site.
Specto & exodus haven't had issues in a year or so, as long as the broadband is reliable there shouldn't be problems.
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