Why Tottenham will get MORE money than Arsenal for being in the Champions League next season
MANCHESTER City will bank a staggering £53million in the Champions League next season - before kicking a ball.
But Newcastle fans wondering where the club's "£100m jackpot" can be spent might be disheartened to realise the Toon will get barely £25m up front from their fifth place finish.
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Despite finishing third in the Premier League behind Liverpool and Arsenal, the Etihad side will be the highest pre-season earners of the SIX top-flight sides in the Euro elite.
And in a twist that will delight every Tottenham fan, winning the Europa League to earn a shot at lifting the Uefa Super Cup in August means Spurs could end up guaranteed slightly MORE money than their bitter North London rivals.
Under the Uefa cash model brought in last season, all six Prem sides will earn a qualification "starting bonus" of £15.72m.
But the division of the total £717m 'value pillar', based on European performances over the past five and 10 years and the value of the TV contracts in each nation, means a difference of close to £30m up front between City and Newcastle.
TNT Sport pay £305m per season for live coverage of all but 17 of the 189 matches, with Amazon Prime screening the others - the first pick of Tuesday games - and highlights on the BBC.
The combined value of those three deals is only exceeded by the £411m per year cable outfit Canal+ are playing for rights in France.
City, ranked second in the five-year coefficient table despite their early exit this season, earn the biggest share of the "European" part of the pot, worth £28.23m.
They also take the third biggest slice of the "non-European" pot, based on the coefficient over the past 10 seasons and worth a further £9.18m, adding up to a total of £53.13m
Prem champions Liverpool are next among the English sides, picking up £51.64m before kicking a ball, while Chelsea, ahead of Arsenal in both coefficient tables, will earn £48.82m.
Arsenal's £47.86m makes them fourth among the English contingent.
Spurs, who earned their passage by virtue of their exploits in Bilbao despite finishing 17th in the Prem, will earn £44.62m if Portuguese league runners-up Benfica fail to negotiate their two qualifying rounds, or £269,000 less if the Lisbon side do reach the league phase.
But when the £3.38m guaranteed for reaching the Super Cup is added, that could take Tottenham to £48m, a fraction above the Arsenal windfall.
By contrast, Newcastle's relative lack of recent European history will see them add just £9.68m to their starting bonus, totalling £25.4m and some £28m less than City will pick up before the competition begins, even though they were TWELVE places ahead of Spurs in the Prem table.
Tottenham ratings: Bissouma dominates Europa League final as occasion gets to Udogie
BRENNAN JOHNSON was Tottenham's hero as they finally ended their 17-year trophy drought in the Europa League final.
Despite being without James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski for the clash in Bilbao, Spurs came up with a massive win against Manchester United.
Johnson scored the goal as he helped bundle in from a corner in a tussle with Luke Shaw to send fans into dreamland.
But Spurs also owe a huge thanks to Yves Bissouma who was totally dominant in midfield.
At the other end, Destiny Udogie struggled to get up to the pace of the match as he was up against Manchester United's Amad Diallo.
Spurs had just three shots, only 27 per cent of the ball, and completed a mere 115 passes over 90 minutes.
But it didn't matter, as United never really looked like finding a leveller to take it to extra time.
SunSport's Henry Tomlinson gave his ratings for the Tottenham players …
In August's draw, City, Liverpool and Chelsea will be in the top seeding group, with Arsenal among the second set of nine clubs, Spurs in the third section and Newcastle in the final pool.
All clubs meet two teams from each seeding group but cannot play a side from their own country in the league phase.
The prize fund for performances in the competition remains the same as last season, with clubs able to earn a further maximum of £77.4m.
After the eight-game league phase, the team top of the table will collect £8.3m, in addition to £1.76m for every league stage win.
Bonuses for knock-out progression will earn the eventual winners in the Budapest Final a further £55m.
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