Leaders 2019: Y. Al-Obaidly, A. Agnelli, L. De Laurentiis, P. Hutton among the speakers

"We now live in a world where exclusive broadcast rights are, effectively, wholly non-exclusive. Consumers, young and old, are accessing everything for nothing - via a kodi or a VPN or beoutQ - wherever they are, whenever they like, and this behaviour is being normalised. As the largest buyer of sports rights in the world, because of beoutQ in MENA and piracy generally, we now regard all sports rights as non-exclusive and our commercial offers will reflect that. I am also confident that other broadcasters will make similar devaluations," said Yousef Al-Obaidly.

The CEO of beIN Media Group was speaking at the 2019 edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit, at Twickenham Stadium in London (ENG), on 08 and 09/10/2019. News Tank Football was present at the event.

""The biggest threat in European football is our clubs, because we tend to think individually and not collectively. We want to make sure that we maintain a symbiosis with the domestic leagues. We don't want to kill domestic leagues. We need to think whether the system we have today is simply privileging a small group of…