Or we aren't?
Leeds United saw 20 of their fixtures selected for TV coverage in the season just gone - but how much money did they make in total?
The Whites were selected for live television coverage 19 times by EFL broadcaster Sky Sports across the Championship season and also saw their FA Cup third round clash broadcast by the BBC. Sky Sports at Elland Road. For the home games against Sheffield United, Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Wolverhampton Wanderers the club earned a set fee of £100,000 a game, while the Whites received £120,000 for the Middlesbrough and Bristol City matches at Elland Road due to the games taking place on a Sunday afternoon.
Away televised fixture fees bring in much less with the visiting team receiving just £10,000 a game for it's selection with United featuring on Sky Sports thirteen times away from home during the 2017/18 Championship campaign.
The Whites also appeared on BBC Wales in January for their trip to Newport County in the FA Cup third round and received £144,000 for the Sunday lunchtime kick off.
In total United received £914,000 for the 20 games that were shown across the season which works out at just £45,700 a game.
For finishing thirteenth in the Championship Leeds earned themselves just £6.8m, which is the same blanket figure throughout the league made up of two payments. Therefore combining both prize money and TV money United earned themselves just over £7.7m for the season.
To put the money into context West Bromich Albion earned £98.5m for finishing bottom of the Premier League, while fellow relegated teams Stoke City (£98.9m) and Swansea City (£100.5m) also bagged hefty sums - next seasons parachute payments for the relegated trio will also be in excess of £40m.
Championship rivals Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Hull City all pocketed £42.4m in parachute payments during the campaign just gone, while play-off finalists Fulham also earned £17.2m along with Cardiff City and Aston Villa who bagged £32.6m respectively.
Read more at: https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/sport/football/leeds-united/here-s-how-little-leeds-united-earned-from-their-tv-appearances-this-season-1-9171531
We're In the Money!
posted on 19/5/18
We’ll be raking it in when AR sells leeds tv rights to Mayanmar.....
posted on 19/5/18
What would they show in the advert breaks?
Cleansing products?
posted on 19/5/18
Probably not products targeted for Muslims...
posted on 21/5/18
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 1 day, 17 hours ago
comment by LIW - RAD = BATES WITH A SMILE (U8453)
posted 7 hours, 16 minutes ago
He’d have to be pretty stupid not to know this
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He would and he's not
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Shame his intelligence does not include knowledge of running a football club.
posted on 21/5/18
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 1 day, 17 hours ago
comment by LIW - RAD = BATES WITH A SMILE (U8453)
posted 7 hours, 16 minutes ago
He’d have to be pretty stupid not to know this
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He would and he's not
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Shame his intelligence does not include knowledge of running a football club.
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He doesn’t need to know. He just needs to get people in that do.
Look at 75% of the Prem owners and tell me how many knew how to run a football club when they first bought in. Mostly it’s either having money to burn, luck or a bit of both.
Radz is learning and hopefully he will get it right. If not he’s already said he will sell after five years if we don’t go up.
posted on 21/5/18
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 1 hour, 59 minutes ago
comment by Kebablegs (U17699)
posted 12 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 1 day, 17 hours ago
comment by LIW - RAD = BATES WITH A SMILE (U8453)
posted 7 hours, 16 minutes ago
He’d have to be pretty stupid not to know this
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He would and he's not
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Shame his intelligence does not include knowledge of running a football club.
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He doesn’t need to know. He just needs to get people in that do.
Look at 75% of the Prem owners and tell me how many knew how to run a football club when they first bought in. Mostly it’s either having money to burn, luck or a bit of both.
Radz is learning and hopefully he will get it right. If not he’s already said he will sell after five years if we don’t go up.
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Fair points but the worry is he takes the club backwards. The wage increase for such a poor season was a disaster not just now but for any future owner too, Every season we stay down and buy badly we go further into debt.
posted on 21/5/18
If not he’s already said he will sell after five years if we don’t go up.
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All is ok, because he will sell in 5 years if we don't go up.
posted on 21/5/18
so don't criticise until 2022.
posted on 21/5/18
He’ll have learnt by then Jack. We know this not just because Kinnear said so, but also because he’s an astute businessman and Because his tv company won the rights for La Liga off sky sports so he is going to spend all that money on our club. All that Money along with the riches from the Far East that we’re going to make due to signing Ideguchi and going to Mayanmar,
posted on 21/5/18
You've cheered me up now. Thankyou!