Barcelona could end up playing in he French League!!

Yet again non politicians giving stark warnings about independence votes to try and convince people that they should stay. Technically Monaco aren't part of France yet play in the French league. Berwick Rangers are in England yet play in the scottish league. It can be done and will likely be done to keep Barcelona and other Catalan clubs in the league. Scaremongering and nothing more.
 
If they would require some kind of vote amongst the teams to let Barca into the league should the region gain independence I could see the other teams using it as leverage to get a fair tv deal.

It's currently around 140mil for Barca and Real, each, while Atletico got 42mil and the rest of the teams get ever lower amounts down to 12mil.

EPL ranges from 100 to 60mil pretty much at the moment but isn't team dependent. If For instance Liverpool finished 20th and QPR finished top then QPR would get closer to 100mil and Liverpool closer to the 60mil. It isn't biased based on size of team, but half equal share and half is split via games on tv and position finished in league.

The other teams would have a huge amount of power in blocking Barca staying in the league and could get them to start to negotiate a league deal. Could be a huge huge deal for the lowest teams, group bargaining would help them push the deals higher in the future as well but could mean say the bottom teams moving from 12 to 20-30mil, if they can get a better overall deal they can hope for 40-50mil a piece in the future. AS it stands when tv money goes up Real/Barca get most of it, the others get very very little.
 
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