The Premier League's "big six" would earn an additional 7 per cent of all foreign broadcast revenue if it were distributed in the same way as the league place prize money.
Club bosses are meeting on Wednesday to discuss what could be the biggest shake-up to overseas broadcast income distributed in Premier League history.
As it stands, all international broadcast income is distributed evenly amongst the division’s 20 clubs.
Last season that worked out at £39,090,596 each.
It’s a policy that has been a central part of making revenue distribution in the Premier League the most equitable of Europe’s major football league’s.
Things could all be about to change though.
Under pressure from the Premier League’s six richest clubs, executive chairman Richard Scudamore has proposed changing the distribution of international broadcast income so that 35 per cent of it is distributed on a merit (final league position).
To see what this would mean in real terms, Mirror Sport has applied the proposed model to the amount of money that was distributed last season.
The league’s merit payments are much less evenly distributed than the overall 1.6:1 ratio that exists between the top and bottom sides.
Top earners Chelsea pocketed 9.5 per cent of the merit pot last season compared to Sunderland’s 0.5 per cent:
Club: Merit payment 2016/17
Chelsea: £38,832,180
Tottenham: £36,890,571
Man City: £34,948,962
LIverpool: £33,007,353
Arsenal: £31,065,744
Man United: £29,124,135
Everton: £27,182,526
Southampton: £25,240,917
Bournemouth: £23,299,308
West Brom: £21,357,699
West Ham: £19,416,090
Leicester: £17,474,481
Stoke: £15,532,872
Crystal Palace: £13,591,263
Swansea: £11,649,654
Burnley: £9,705,045
Watford: £7,766,436
Hull: £5,824,827
Middlesbrough: £3,883,218
Sunderland: £1,941,609
If the amount earned from international revenues were split 65 per cent evenly, 35 per cent on merit last season, then each club would have received £25,408,887 each as opposed to £39m.
If the remaining £273m to be distributed on merit used the same percentages as the existing merit pot then top side Chelsea would have received £26,060,589 in international merit payments and Tottenham £24,757,56. Sunderland would only have picked up £1,303,029 though.
Club: Possible international merit payment
Chelsea: £26,060,589
Tottenham: £24,757,560
Man City: £23,454,530
LIverpool: £22,151,501
Arsenal: £20,848,471
Man United: £19,545,442
Everton: £18,242,412
Southampton: £16,939,383
Bournemouth: £15,636,353
West Brom: £14,333,324
West Ham: £13,030,295
Leicester: £11,727,265
Stoke: £10,424,236
Crystal Palace: £9,121,206
Swansea: £7,818,177
Burnley: £6,513,134
Watford: £5,212,118
Hull: £3,909,088
Middlesbrough: £2,606,059
Sunderland: £1,303,029
Overall, Chelsea would have earned over £12m more than they did from international money while Sunderland would have picked up £12m less than what they received:
Club: Would have received
Chelsea: £51,469,476
Tottenham: £50,166,447
Man City: £48,863,418
LIverpool: £47,560,388
Arsenal: £46,257,359
Man United: £44,954,329
Everton: £43,651,300
Southampton: £42,348,270
Bournemouth: £41,045,241
West Brom: £39,742,211
West Ham: £38,439,182
Leicester: £37,136,152
Stoke: £35,833,123
Crystal Palace: £34,530,094
Swansea: £33,227,064
Burnley: £31,922,021
Watford: £30,621,005
Hull: £29,317,976
Middlesbrough: £28,014,946
Sunderland: £26,711,917
The ratio of earnings between top and bottom this season would have changed from 1.6:1 to 2:1.
Between them, the big six would have picked up £289,271,417 of the international income - 37 per cent of the total.
Under the existing model they picked up £234,545,736 - 30 per cent of the total.
That may not sound like a big change, but with the domestic TV market believed to be reaching saturation point the only main area for growth is overseas.
If revenue from abroad were to increase to £1bn then the top side would pick up £66m from that pot compared to £34m for the bottom side.
The big six would get £370m between them.
The big question for clubs outside of the big six then is do they appease the big clubs and hope the gap between them doesn’t grow further, or do they resist them and hope that they don’t break away and try to form a European super league?