http://football.guardian.co.uk/comme...143703,00.html
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Bundesliga imports
Summer 2006
Dimitar Berbatov, Leverkusen to Tottenham: £10.9m
Khalid Boulahrouz, SV Hamburg to Chelsea: £7m
Tomas Rosicky, Borussia Dortmund to Arsenal: £6.8m
Michael Ballack, Bayern Munich to Chelsea: Free
Emile Mpenza, Hamburg to Manchester City: Free
Summer 2007
Owen Hargreaves, Bayern Munich to Manchester Utd: £17m
Kevin-Prince Boateng, Hertha Berlin to Tottenham: £5m
Roque Santa Cruz, Bayern to Blackburn: £3.8m
Andriy Voronin, Leverkusen to Liverpool: Free
Claudio Pizarro, Bayern to Chelsea: Free
Steven Pienaar, Borussia Dortmund to Everton: Loan
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It is uncharitable to advance financial gratification as the players' primary motivation, even though all of the imports have topped up their wage packets, some handsomely so, with Ballack raking in £121,000 each week at Chelsea. Money inevitably is at the root of the trend, however, and it is the disparity between the cash-rich Premiership and the relative pauper that is the Bundesliga to which the cause of the drift can truly be traced.
Sky TV spoke of a "whole new ball game" when it launched its coverage of the Premiership in the early 90s and the German pay-TV station, Premiere, envisaged making similar inroads into the sport. But whereas Sky, followed latterly by Setanta, has profited from the soaring price of viewing packages, the German rival has not kept pace. Sky says its new deal, which runs to 2009-10, is worth £567m a season. The contract in Germany comes in at a mere £157m a season.
Premiere has been hampered by the strength of its terrestrial cousin, ARD, whose Sportschau airs at 6.30 on Saturday evenings with highlights of the afternoon's six Bundesliga matches plus the game from the previous evening. Premiere offers the choice of watching any Saturday-afternoon match live, via an interactive option, and also has a choice of two live matches on Sundays at 5pm.
German viewers, though, supported by the popular press, are staunchly against moving ARD's slot and thus diminishing its influence. Fans guard traditions zealously and, although stadiums remain full, nobody gets fabulously wealthy with simultaneous kick-off times.
"There is a big appetite for subscriber football [in Germany] but due to free TV coverage at 6.30 this appetite is not as big as in England or France, Spain or Italy, where the free TV coverage is pushed back," a source at Premiere said. "That is what we are fighting against and that is why the Bundesliga does not make as much out of its TV contract.
"It's pretty obvious why Bundesliga stars go to England: to make money. The Premier League is the top league in the world. Make money and all the top players will go."
The TV money filters down to English clubs but the players who have left Germany for England also crave the stage and profile of the Premier League. Whereas Premiere's viewing figures for a weekend are two million, Sky claims it can get that domestically for one live match. In terms of worldwide reach there is no comparison. "I've always wanted to come to England and Owen Hargreaves told me I could do very well with my style, " Pizarro said. "I don't think it's harder than in Germany but it's definitely faster. "
Many young Germans are also Premier League devotees and one of their number, the Under-21 midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng, has been lured from Hertha Berlin to Tottenham for £5m. He will not be the last. "The young lads in Germany now are different to those of 10 years ago," said Boateng's agent, Karel van Burik. "They know everything about English football. Kevin thinks that if he can play in England he can show everyone in Europe that he is the best. The Premiership offers that stage. The players are also drawn by the passion of the crowds and the super mentality of English football."
The Deutsche Fussball Liga yesterday had a new chief executive, Reinhard Rauball, and he is determined to reclaim a fourth Champions League spot and to negotiate an improved TV deal. It is difficult to say which is the more important.
09-08-2007, 05:06 AM
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