Big moment in Belgian football, as 25 professional clubs vote in favour of establishing Beneliga = a merger with Dutch Eredivisie. @ProLeagueBE to play 'active role' in the project. Domestic TV deals end in 2025 in both 🇧🇪 and 🇳🇱
Jon Rest
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Jon Rest
@jonrest
Global News Reporter @SportBusiness
- EXCLUSIVE: @RangersFC land £20m kit and retail deal with #Castore sportcal.com/News/Search/13… (£) - 5 season, £4m a year deal - Puma and Macron were also in running - Retail component secured after end of Sports Direct deal
- Replying to @jonrest and @ProLeagueBEthis has been talked about for years but seems first time there's been unanimous support for it. Comes in first year of Eleven Sports' five-year rights deal worth €103m per season. Fox 12-year deal with Eredivisie worth average €80m per year.
- SCOOP: Liverpool set to swap Nike for Adidas from 2025/26 #lfc #adidas sportbusiness.com/news/exclusive…
- Breaking: January remains JanuaryThe dates of the January 2020 transfer window for Premier League clubs have been confirmed The window will open on Wednesday 1 January and close at 23:00 GMT on Friday 31 January 2020 More: preml.ge/Zuh8Sv
- Just saw a bloke buy a paper to 'find out West Ham score'. 1. Who waits for next day's paper to find result 2. Imagine the bloke's horror
- Replying to @jonrest and @ProLeagueBEworth remembering this is the first step on a long, long road. No guarantee it will happen, but significant all Belgian clubs in favour of pursuing the project. Would also require change to Uefa statutes over cross-border comps
- Replying to @GaryLinekerRather that than be attacked by loads of Ladyboys
- *Personal news klaxon*. I'll be leaving @sportcal next month. After more than 10.5 years it's definitely time to move on. To where, is for another time. Got to travel the world attempting to understand the nuances of the business of sport. I think/hope I managed it. Been a blast
- Ronaldo circling Europe on his private jet, trying to get a move. Like a high end @OdemwingieP
- "I still think they're the team to beat", says @themichaelowen of Liverpool. They've just been beat Michael. #insight
- 3 PL wins in succession for Chelsea aided by woeful GK errors by McGregor, Begovic and Green
