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Sky Sports News understands Marseille and Valencia are also keen to sign the Borussia Dortmund midfielder
Arsenal, Everton and West Ham are interested in bringing Borussia Dortmund's Mario Gotze to the Premier League, Sky Sports News understands.
The golden boy of Germany's 2014 World Cup-winning team has struggled to maintain the form that took him from Dortmund to Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich in 2013.
Sky Sports News understands Marseille and Valencia are also interested in signing the 26-year old, and Dortmund will be keen to recoup the vast majority of the £22m they paid Bayern last summer to bring him back to Signal Iduna Park.
Mario Gotze scored an extra-time winner for Germany in the 2014 World Cup final against Argentina
Since then, Gotze - who scored Germany's winning goal in the 2014 World Cup final against Argentina - has shown signs of regaining top form, but failed to impress enough to find a place in Joachim Low's squad for the impending tournament in Russia.
The attacking midfielder made 23 Bundesliga appearances for Dortmund last season, scoring twice and providing a further four assists.
He has two years left on his Dortmund contract.
Sports-media venture Perform wants to be the "Netflix of sports," but it's got competition.
The U.K.-based company boasts premium rights to the NFL and NBA in Germany, as well as premiere soccer leagues. It's intent on giving fans access to any sport they want, at any time, for a low monthly subscription fee.
On Wednesday, Perform and British broadcaster Sky won the rights to show Italy’s top-flight Serie A soccer matches until 2021 for more than $1.2 billion a season, Italy’s soccer league chairman said.
Last month, Perform debuted in the U.S. market by inking a $1 billion boxing deal with Eddie Hearn, and signed on former ESPN head honcho John Skipper as executive chairman.
"There is opportunity and challenge," Perform Chief Executive Juan Delgado tells Barron's. He was in San Francisco this week to participate on a "TV of Tomorrow" panel. How consumers digest sports content presents openings in different markets and sports, he says.
Perform and a heavy-duty roster of competitors are seeking to duplicate Netflix's (NFLX) success in subscription models for video-on-demand of movies and TV shows; it boasts 125 million subscribers globally. (Perform has "millions" of subscribers, Delgado said, but he wouldn't be more specific.)
A centerpiece of Perform's strategy, unfurled in August 2016, is called DAZN (pronounced "da-zone"), a subscription streaming service bankrolled by billionaire music mogul Len Blavatnik’s Access Industries Holdings, which also owns the Warner Music record label and a stake in music-streaming service Spotify Technology (SPOT).
A year ago, Perform acquired domestic rights to Japan's top soccer J-League for a record $2 billion. It also has deals with Major League Baseball, Formula One, and soccer's UEFA Champions League. DAZN is available on smart-TV apps, mobile devices, computers, and game consoles.
It's an impressive lineup in a field that is increasingly fragmented.
Eleven Sports, owned by Italian businessman Andrea Radrizzani, majority owner of English soccer club Leeds United, boasts rights to Indian Premier League cricket, European soccer, and such niche sports as snooker, darts, and Ultimate Frisbee.
Meanwhile, Hulu, CBS's (CBS) All Access, Dish Network's (DISH) Sling TV, AT&T's (T) DirecTV Now, Alphabet's (GOOGL) YouTube TV, Sony's (SNE) PlayStation Vue, and various sports packages from Disney's (DIS) ESPN+, MLB, the NBA, and FuboTV are vying for eyeballs and advertising revenue.
Here's why: over-the-top video will generate revenue of $30.6 billion in 2022, compared with $20.1 billion in 2017, as high-speed internet access spreads and younger consumers increasingly opt for viewing events on mobile devices, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers.
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