Burnley have already secured one of the two automatic promotion spots, but Middlesbrough and Brighton are tied on points going into their final game of the season – with Boro ahead on goal difference.
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“This is a combination of the extra revenue they will earn from playing in the Premier League in 2016-17 (at least an extra $185 million (£95 million), mostly from central distributions) and guaranteed parachute payments in 2017-18 and 2018-19 should they be relegated after one season (totalling $146 million (£75 million) across the two seasons)”.
Deloitte says whichever it is “will see an uplift in revenue of at least $246 million”, with that eye-watering amount increasing to “at least $420 million if they survive their first season in the Premier League”.
Richard Battle, senior manager in the sports business group at Deloitte LLP, said: “Promotion to the Premier League provides clubs with the resources to make strategic investments on and off the pitch”.
Bruno, 35, played in the Champions League while with Valencia, and has experienced plenty of important games before.
“We are not frightened by the challenge, they are favourites being at home, and we will have to do something to win it”.
Karanka, a former Real Madrid assistant to Jose Mourinho, missed the next match before returning to the club and rebuilding his relationship with his players well enough to take them to the brink of a promotion that would end their seven-year Premier League exile.
Karanka said: “I don’t know how to prepare for a game to draw”.
“I was looking to see if I could get from there to Leicester in time but I don’t think I can”.
Former Sunderland midfielder Leadbitter insisted: “We look to win games and that’s what we’ll do on Saturday”.
“Even when we couldn’t win the last three games the performances kept me calm”, Karanka told BBC Tees.
Boro could have a psychological advantage, having outgunned Brighton 3-0 away in December, wrecking the Seagulls’ unbeaten 21-game start to the season.
If Brighton are promoted, it will be their first time among the elite since 1982-83 – a campaign that ended with relegation and defeat in the club’s only FA Cup final appearance when they came within a Gordon Smith miskick of defeating Manchester United before losing in a replay.
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“The club has spent well and we’re a stronger group of players; better players and more experienced players who have been through a lot”. If we want to get a result on Saturday, we’re going to have to play well to do that.
