From: http://scousenotenglish.yforum.biz/...xec-breaks-from-the-pack-on-foreign-tv-rights -Jesus christ, the bitters are gonna be apoplectic over this! Ian Ayre has (finally) come out and said what the big clubs haven't had the bottle to say - that we should negotiate our own foreign TV rights. His premise is simple - and sensible - in that when it comes to TV rights in the UK from Sky then fair enough, the Premier League have a more or less level playing field because Blackburn fans for example buy Sky to watch the Premiership as much as anyone else. I'd argue the case on that but all the same, I can see the benefits of having a group deal there. However, he was rightfully keen to stress that abroad, this is absolutely not the case and that those fans abroad typically follow the big clubs like Liverpool and Manure. Therefore, it's not the Premier League they're really following but the individual clubs. Erto, we deserve a bigger share of the rights and we now want to negotiate them ourselves instead of allowing the Premier League to keep robbing us blind to the benefit of the small clubs like Everton. Seriously, how many people in Asia do you think crowd round the telly at the weekend in the dead of night to watch Everton? Very ****ing few. Diametrically, we have an enormous fan base abroad. Barcelona and Real Madrid negotiate their own rights and it's about time we did too. Why the **** should our fan base abroad be paying to prop up the little clubs when it's the big clubs they wanna see? Naturally, if Liverpool are playing the likes of Stoke then sure, Stoke should get something from foreign TV rights as they're on TV. But don't tell me that anyone tunes in abroad in any great numbers to watch Stoke versus Sunderland for fakes sake. It's all over the press anyway and I listened to a very considered and well presented argument from Ian Ayre on City earlier, I just hope we make it happen. More than anything, it will send the blue noses into a seething ****ing rage of bitterness 'cos they're likely to lose out massively. Thing is, they ain't losing out, they're just currently gaining unfairly. It'll be like they've fiddled the lecky for years and now British Gas have sorted the meter out to it's proper rate yet they will still ****ing moan about it. Beautiful. Yet more evidence that our owners and their board are very switched on and that they're putting Liverpool's financial welfare first above anyone else.