Everton and Liverpool could be set for a financial boost after it emerged that the Premier League were looking at boosting the value of their media rights deal through added games in the next cycle.
The tender process for the domestic broadcast rights for the period beginning 2025/26 is set to begin later this year and the challenge for Premier League chiefs is to try and raise the bar financially domestically after rights in the UK remained flat from 2016 - largely owing to the rolling over of the last deal during the pandemic in order to provide some financial certainty to member clubs.
The value of the last domestic deal that was agreed for the three-year period between 2022/23 and 2024/25 was around £4.8bn, a figure that was surpassed last year by the value of international rights for the very first time, with more than £5bn achieved, thanks in no small part to the boost that the near £2bn US broadcast deal delivered.
