MANCHESTER CITY are set to bank as much from next season’s Champions League as Liverpool did this year – before they even kick a ball.
And it means Pep Guardiola’s men could earn DOUBLE the amount Liverpool banked in 2017-18 if they go all the way to Madrid next term.
The new TV deal, which saw BT Sport pay £1.2billion to keep screening the competition for the next three years, has brought a major cash revamp and a cash pot of £1.78billion.
City, Manchester United, Spurs and Liverpool are guaranteed a windfall that could be worth nearly £150million if they go all the way.
Uefa’s new-look competition sees the top four from Spain, England, Italy and Germany all going straight through to the group phase, which brings an initial £13.32m per club.
For the first time, “historical” achievements are used to calculate the co-efficient rankings of the clubs, with a sliding scale used to determine the split of a £511m pot.
United, ranked fifth in that table after two Champions League wins and their 1968 European Cup triumph, will bank £27.1m, with City taking £21.3m, Liverpool £20.3m and Spurs £14.5m.
Another £255m will be shared between the 32 teams according to the value of the “market pool” based on the money paid in by the national broadcasters.
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BT’s huge input means the English market pool is likely to be around £157m, which will be split in two chunks, half up front and the rest based on performances.
As champions, City will take around £31.4m, with United on £23.6m, Spurs, who finished third in the Prem, £15.7m and fourth-placed Liverpool £7.85m.
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It means City are already guaranteed £66m just for qualifying, with United to earn £64m, Spurs £43.55m and Liverpool £41.5m.
Every group stage win is worth £2.36m with cash prizes for reaching each stage.
Any team that won all six group games and went all the way to win the Final in Atletico Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano would earn an additional £58.7m.
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With the second tranche of the market pool then allocated based on the percentage of matches played by teams in each country, City could make around £148m.
Last season, United, who qualified as Europa League winners, received a share of the second half of the market pool, which meant that Liverpool ended up earning £67.7m for their journey to Kiev.
But the riches on offer next term show how much failing to make the top four cost Chelsea and Arsenal, who, along with Burnley, will take a share of the £499m total pool for Europe’s secondary competition.
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