Chelsea’s Champions League victory will mean that the three other English qualifiers for next season’s competition will earn million of pounds less. The split of Uefa television money will reflect the fact that Chelsea start in the group stages.
Manchester City will get about £9m rather than £12m, Manchester United £7.5m instead of £9 and Arsenal £4.5m not £6m.
Chelsea’s Champions League victory will mean that the three other English qualifiers for next season’s competition will earn million of pounds less. The split of Uefa television money will reflect the fact that Chelsea start in the group stages.
Manchester City will get about £9m rather than £12m, Manchester United £7.5m instead of £9 and Arsenal £4.5m not £6m.
The biggest hit has, of course, been taken by Tottenham Hotspur who have been relegated to the wastelands of the Europa League. It does produce some entertaining matches but the combination of unknown teams, the apparently interminable length of the competition and Thursday night games means that it fails to excite most fans.
For a normally mid-table team like Fulham, of course, being in Europe and getting to the final was a big boost. But as Middlesborough found some years ago you can lose rather than make money by the time you have paid for trips to far flung parts of Europe.