Barcelona has agreed to receive no more than four times as much in media-rights income as the lowest-paid team in the Spanish Liga from the 2016-17 season as part of a new centralised model for the top division of football in the country, according to the Bloomberg news agency.
The Liga has been trying to broker an arrangement under which Spain’s two biggest clubs, Barcelona and Real Madrid, would agree to become part of a collective rights sales model, ending the current individual sales approach.
Both clubs currently receive €135m ($172m) per season in deals with the Mediapro agency – about 6.5 times the value of the rights income generated by the Liga’s lowest-earning club.
The report said that Real Madrid wants more time to consider the proposals.
Under the proposed new approach, the rights income for Barcelona and Real would remain unchanged for between two and four years to allow the Liga to negotiate collective deals so that the gap of income between the two biggest clubs and the rest could be reduced.
The Liga is hoping to incorporate the proposal into legislation by the end of this year.