Row brews over Premier Rugby's £152m TV rights deal with BT Vision "The Heineken Cup was set up by the Unions and fair play that they created it," Wray said. The English and French clubs contribute by miles the biggest part of the revenue and we don't get our just reward. That must be put right. The structure is clearly wrong in that we have to knock each other out to get into the tournament and all the other guys stroll in. And that's not right - we have to fight to get in and we provide most of the revenue. The terms have to be changed. Traditionalists would have been staggered to hear BT Vision chief executive Marc Watson speak yesterday of "owning" a new tournament. "We are looking to set up a dazzling new European tournament with a fantastic new format with, we hope, all the best clubs," said Watson. That tournament will be the successor to the Heineken Cup. It was thought that an Anglo-French alliance would be a unified element in the negotiations. Although there is total agreement between the two countries as to the need for a revamp, Wolff revealed to The Daily Telegraph that there were concerns as to the means of bringing this about. "It is inappropriate to give news about TV rights in Europe," said Wolff, vice-president of the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and one of two French representatives at next Tuesday's all-important ERC board meeting in Dublin. I was disappointed. It is not appropriate that this is to be put on the agenda. We do not know for sure if ERC or the clubs or another organisation owns these rights. Of course I understand that this is the usual pressure exerted before negotiations but I was sorry to see financial issues being discussed before we talk about how the competition needs to be improved. We don't want to start all this by having lawyers there arguing about TV rights. We must talk first about the sport. Premier Rugby's decision to announce a pre-emptive deal is a show of power, a leverage point in negotiations to come. However, it was always felt that Premier Rugby's trump card was that it could march off side-by-side with the French clubs if they did not get their way. Wolff revealed that any putative Anglo-French competition to take the place of a Heineken Cup is a last resort. "This is not the story at the moment, this Anglo-French competition, only if there is a complete failure of negotiations," said Wolff. He believes that the Celts will come to the table on Tuesday willing to negotiate, although Thomas was still smarting last night. "Premier Rugby haven't got the Welsh, the Irish, the Scottish or the Italians and they haven't got the French at the moment," he said. They have only got the English teams in it. They are making massive assumptions. Wasps are expected to bring to an end to months of uncertainty over their future today by announcing the completion of a takeover deal by a consortium.