Turner Broadcasting successfully bought the broadcast rights to the Champions League and Europa League beginning for the 18-19 season and will launch a stand-alone sports streaming service that will broadcast the vast majority of matches.

Many of the most important Champions League games, including the semifinals and final, will still be broadcast on cable television.

But eighty percent of matches will only be available to fans who pay for the new subscription service.

Turner, which owns cable networks including TNT, TBS, CNN and Cartoon Network, and already owns some rights for games in Major League Baseball, the N.B.A. and the men’s N.C.A.A. basketball tournament, will build its new product around soccer, at least to start.

Turner paid $60 million for the rights.

Turner president David Levy said viewers should not expect any games from the other sports for which it owns the rights, such as the N.B.A. or Major League Baseball, to appear on the streaming service, at least not at the beginning.

“This isn’t about taking current rights and putting them on this platform,” he said. “This is a new platform, which is untethered to our existing businesses.”

NBC created a similar service for the Premier League priced at $50 that puts about a third of the schedule in their streaming-only product. 

The average MLS team is now worth $223 million, which is up from 20 percent last season.

The cost of an expansion fee has jumped from $40 million five years ago (Montreal Impact) to $150 million (Minnesota and Atlanta).

The LA Galaxy is now the league's most valuable team with a value of $315 million, a 19% increase from last year. The Galaxy generated $63 million in revenue last season.

The Sounders, now worth $295 million, remain a close second.

1. LA Galaxy: $315 million
2. Seattle Sounders: $295 million
3. Toronto FC: $280 million
4. New York City FC: $275 million
5. Orlando City SC: $272 million
6. Portland Timbers: $268 million
7. Sporting Kansas City: $260 million
8. New York Red Bulls: $245 million
9. Chicago Fire: $240 million
10. San Jose Earthquakes: $235 million
11. D.C. United: $230 million
12. New England Revolution: $225 million
13. Houston Dynamo: $218 million
14. FC Dallas: $185 million
15. Philadelphia Union: $170 million
16. Real Salt Lake: $155 million
17. Vancouver Whitecaps: $150 million
18. Colorado Rapids: $135 million
19. Columbus Crew: $130 million

Premier League executive chairman Richard Scudamore is glad Neymar didn't join his league at the type of fee Paris Saint-Germain paid.

"There is a point where you say actually 'no'," Scudamore said to Sky Sports.

"I am glad that is not us who has got that particular record.

"That is an unusual set of events I think. The Qataris - who own PSG - have suddenly decided they want to make a statement.

"And the rather perverse thing with having these buyout clauses is they are meant to prevent players moving.

"This one was tested and it does not worry me at all and I am kind of sitting here glad it was not a Premier League club who spent that much money on a player."