+xSo if the article is to be believed, Western United really paid $4 million and Macarthur $2.75 million for their licenses. Not quite.
The deal (which was reported at the time but as usual, with varying explanations in different papers) was that the two expansion teams would buy their licence but would not receive a distribution from the tv deal. Instead they would effectively “get their money back” through a separate distribution.
This had the advantage of not diluting the distribution to the existing ten teams (vital as it’s rumoured Fox were dragging their heals on paying the increase for expansion) and it prevented the State Feds grabbing the money in a distribution of their own.
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