The pandemic has affected economically all sectors and football has obviously not been an exception despite the fact that it was able to resume activity after confinement and the present activity is developing with all the normality that this anomalous and serious health situation allows. Among the financial consequences for the beautiful game are the impairment of television rights due to the suspension of the competition in the second quarter of the year, the drop in subscribers and the closure of bars
Thus, as El Economista reports, Javier Tebas has been forced to renegotiate and has reached an agreement with Mediapro, Telefónica, Bein or ESPNm for which a reduction of 90 million in the bill of emission rights has been agreed. of the First and Second matches of the past year (2019/2020). This adjustment represents a 4.7% cut compared to the 1,915 million that were expected to enter before the pandemic.
Although the consequences on the clubs will be known in a couple of months, Sevilla is among the most affected clubs along with Atlético, apart from the smallest, because they are the ones that have the greatest dependence on the exploitation of television rights at the level. National and international.
Furthermore, Javier Tebas has an agenda at the end of the season to negotiate a new cut in the conditions of television contracts to adjust it as much as possible to reality and the impact of the pandemic.