Spain will not make clubs strike joint TV deals

A battle over hundreds of millions of euros of income from TV deals escalated this month when some richer teams said they planned to create a separate first division.

Poorer clubs urged the Socialist government to introduce the collective negotiation used in rival European leagues to boost their income and help them avoid insolvency.

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