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The Price of Football

BT in talks to sell stake in BT Sport, Bank of England

The Price of Football

Guy Kilty

Sports, Business

4.92.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Kevin and Kieran look into the reasons why BT is looking to sell a stake in BT Sport, analyse the figures behind the Bank of England loans taken out by some Premier League clubs and the FA, and check out the financial benefits or otherwise for Kilmarnock after the club renamed its ground The BBSP Stadium. Follow Kevin on Twitter - @kevinhunterday Follow Kieran on Twitter - @KieranMaguire Support The Price of Football on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/priceoffootball Check out the Price of Football merchandise store: https://the-price-of-football.backstreetmerch.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the prize of football, the shoulder looks at the money behind the

0:15.9

beautiful game I'm Kevin Day and here's Liverpool University's Kiran Maguire. Two buddies

0:21.2

tighter than the race for that coveted 13 spot in the Premier League.

0:25.2

Palace we're pointing ahead with the gaming hand. It's questions day Kiran.

0:30.8

First question being what would a student do in an old traffic? It's coming in boys.

0:34.4

In your come. Yes, they've opened up too much for this crap.

0:37.2

Yeah, so you sit yourself down anywhere you want. So where we're calling while that's going on.

0:41.0

So whatever the game happens we don't know. It is it is someday in our world. It's Monday in yours.

0:45.9

Happy Monday, happy bank holiday if you're in a country with a bank holiday.

0:49.5

Before questions are occurring one very big new story to discuss

0:53.7

off the back of our Premier League broadcasting scoop last week.

0:58.8

And that BT is looking to sell a stake in its PayTV sports business.

1:04.4

If someone offered the enough Kiran would they sell the lot?

1:07.8

I think so. PayTV is never really fit particularly comfortable as far as BT are concerned.

1:16.0

They initially got into it as a defensive measure when Sky were taking market share in terms

1:23.6

of broadband. So BT's response to that, well if you're going to try to nick our broadband customers

1:30.1

we will try to nick some of your TV subscription customers.

1:35.6

And they spent about six or seven years sort of putting each other's tanks on their lawns

1:42.2

and firing off. And that's why the TV rights in both 2014 and 2017 went up by 70%

1:50.7

a time. And then they thought well this really isn't the smartest thing we've ever done.

1:57.2

Why not try to compete on other means which other than just putting loads of money into

2:02.6

football which goes straight through into players' wages and we don't actually receive a benefit

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