Americans own dozens of elite European soccer teams – and are seeking changes to protect their investments.
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Sacking managers is a costly business.
Who is responsible for sticking to financial regulations?
Ruben Amorim needs leadership tactics.
Manchester United is in turmoil again and the scientific discipline of ‘systems thinking’ outlines why the club’s approach is failing.
Football has little patience for failure, as Manchester United’s Erik ten Hag knows.
The impending takeover of Everton FC means a majority of Premier League clubs will be fully or part-owned by US investors. This billion-dollar American revolution all started with a row about a horse.
Inter Milan become the latest elite European football club to be taken over by a US investor.
Football club ownership is risky, but the Glazer family have played by their own rules.
A sports law expert explains why Cristiano Ronaldo’s controversial Piers Morgan interview didn’t get him fired from Manchester United.
Social media calls for a boycott of the club’s upcoming match against Liverpool seem to mostly becoming from outside the UK.
The deadline for formal bids to buy Chelsea FC is March 18. Expect some very rich US businessmen to be in the running.
Running a successful club requires more than money. But the money certainly helps.
Big names, big gains?
Is the decades-old policy of not broadcasting 3pm football games in England still necessary?
From the emergence of Premier League to Cricket’s newer formats, the history of professional sport is full of breakups.
More competitive games between top soccer clubs is desirable but creating a ‘closed’ system would harm a soccer culture built on dreams, says the man who predicted the Super League two decades ago.
Everyone seems united against the new proposals, but can they really be stopped?
The American money men are replacing Russian oligarchs and Arab oil tycoons as the next wave of club buyers.
The clubs no longer ‘belong’ to the fans - they have become instruments in an ideological war between Western capitalism and the rent hungry sheikhs of the Gulf states.
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