There aren’t many chairmen of a top flight football club who are frequently found on social media but Dave Cormack is an exception. However, the Dons supremo might have been advised to steer clear of Twitter on Sunday night after releasing his afternoon statement defending the current SPFL deal that is on the table from Sky.
Cormack would have found plenty of critics of the proposed £30million-a-season extension to the current agreement in place with the broadcasting giants. The deal on offer would see the maximum number of games they are entitled to show increase from 48 to 60 a campaign – beginning from 2024-25 – with annual payments increased from £25million to £30m by 2028-29.
In addition, there would be the option of two additional bundles of 10 games at a cost of £4m each and if Sky decided to trigger that then they could screen 80 games a season with the deal going up to £38m per year. But there is of course no guarantees they would take that up and in that case it would be offered to other broadcasters.
