Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Scriptures Prophesied the Messiah Plays 3-4-3

[gho3st]

He did in a sense. Everyone else has upped their level but that's because he came in and basically became a captain and demanded levels from everyone else both in his play and his attitude on and off the pitch.

Honestly i doubted how many of these sort of players were still out there in football today, and to find one in the portuguese league, who seemingly no one really wanted to take a chance on is the biggest slice of luck we've had in years

Only KDB can be argued as better, who's also developed in to all of those things.

Yea but I just don’t like how they come off saying it. Anybody with eyes could see the team had a depth of good young players. They just needed that spark. Once we get the RW/RF, we really gonna take off. And I hope pogba stays. His passing range is irreplaceable.

 

[gho3st]

Premier League blindsided by NBCSN's announcement to shut channel, says source - World Soccer Talk

English football’s Premier League weren’t officially notified ahead of Friday’s announcement that NBCSN would be shutting down this year, according to a source.

Nor were Premier League executives told that many of their games would be moved to the USA network this year until the Wall Street Journal broke the story.

Blindsided by Friday’s news announcement, the timing couldn’t be worse. The bidding process for the next round of Premier League TV and streaming rights in the United States will begin in the next few months with the anticipation that NBC Sports will try to renew their coverage of the Premier League for several more years. NBC’s current deal with the Premier League expires at the close of the 2021/22 season.

The expectation is that NBC Sports will face significant competition from other sports networks and streaming services interested in capturing the rights to the world’s most popular sports league. ESPN+ remains a formidable competitor, as are CBS’s soon-to-be-renamed Paramount+, Discovery+, Amazon Prime and DAZN.

NBCUniversal’s Peacock TV is a distinct possibility too. However, the source revealed that Premier League executives have recently become dissatisfied with the number of games featured exclusively on Peacock TV this season. The Premier League wants greater distribution and reach for its games, and broadcasting high-profile games via Peacock TVdoesn’t help in the short-term.

World Soccer Talk reached out to the Premier League for a response. According to a Premier League spokesman, the league will not be commenting on this or any of the questions about NBC’s decision to shut down NBCSN as a channel in 2021.

Given the inconsistency of broadcasting games on television and being caught unaware of NBCSN’s future closing, the once stable relationship between the Premier League and NBC Sports has been fractured. Questions remain about how much of a priority the growth of the Premier League is to NBC Sports given the recent emphasis on Peacock broadcasting games, including the biggest game of the season between Liverpool and Manchester United. While the USA channel is in more households than NBCSN, USA isn’t synonymous anymore with sports, which was a similar issue that TNT struggled with when the entertainment channel televised games from the UEFA Champions League.

In its next TV rights deal, the Premier League has to consider which broadcast partner is going to offer the league the greatest reach across television and streaming. Its next three-year deal will take the Premier League past the 2026 FIFA World Cup, due to be hosted in North America in a year where the league will be focused on leveraging as much of the attention on soccer as it can. Between now and then, it’ll be more important than ever for the Premier League to forge a tighter relationship with a broadcast partner that has a strong distribution reach.

Will it be NBC Sports, ESPN, CBS Sports or another broadcaster for 2022/23 and beyond? We will have our answer later this year.

Very unprofessional by nbc. I kinda hope CBS can get it.

 

[Jean toomer]

Very unprofessional by nbc. I kinda hope CBS can get it.

For the love of god man, NO CBS.
If I have to hear Micah Richards during premier league games too, I might catch a case.

 

[Montez]

Very unprofessional by nbc. I kinda hope CBS can get it.

NBC's production is so good but after the 1st season, they scaled down the shows and replays.

The NBC Sports Gold and initial Peacock launch move should've shocked the PL, Peacock would never do that to another big league.

 

[TobiOT]

Yea but I just don’t like how they come off saying it. Anybody with eyes could see the team had a depth of good young players. They just needed that spark. Once we get the RW/RF, we really gonna take off. And I hope pogba stays. His passing range is irreplaceable.

Only thing I'll say is some folks say he's our new Eric Cantona, dunno if I'll say that yet.

He brings us a league title and domestic cup, I might bring this up again.

 

[African_brehda]

Will that Liverpool kid recover?

 

[phcitywarrior]

Very unprofessional by nbc. I kinda hope CBS can get it.

CBS' coverage of UCL and UEL has been top notch, but idk if they would be able to replicate that standard for the EPL week in week out.

NBC Sports has done a fantastic job tbh.

 

[FaygoMI]

CBS' coverage of UCL and UEL has been top notch, but idk if they would be able to replicate that standard for the EPL week in week out.

NBC Sports has done a fantastic job tbh.

They have but it's time for the PL to just hit espn.

 

[Montez]

 

[Ukbrotha]

I love goals like this.

 

[The ADD]

They have but it's time for the PL to just hit espn.

How in the world can they afford it?

 

[gho3st]

 

[mastermind]

Very unprofessional by nbc. I kinda hope CBS can get it.

Considering the PL don’t want games on a pay streaming platform, I doubt Paramount + is a viable option.

 

[NSSVO]

 

[TobiOT]

Jay taking a shot at Rants

Flex was like