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Sep 10, 2026
Sponsorship, Gambling and Commercial Risk in the Premier League
The final part of Paul Quinn’s four-part series on concentration and third-party risk in Premier League broadcast and commercial income, focusing on sponsorship, gambling exposure and regulation.
Paul Quinn
Sep 9, 2026
The Counterparty Risks Behind the Rights Deals
Part 3 of Paul Quinn’s four-part special series: ownership changes, demonstrated failures and renewal exposure.
Paul Quinn
Sep 8, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #193: When Football Assets Stop Appreciating
Leicester’s £200m rebuild, Bordeaux’s latest collapse, Wrexham’s first sporting director, Serie A’s private-equity return and Barcelona’s €1bn year.
FootBiz Staff
Sep 7, 2026
Who Controls Premier League Broadcast Income?
Comcast, Canal+, Disney, Paramount and the concentration behind global distribution.
Paul Quinn
Sep 4, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #192: Premier League Spending Breaks Another Record
The £3.46 billion transfer window, Everton’s investor search, Starbucks’ Toulouse shirt deal and Bordeaux’s unfinished takeover.
FootBiz Staff
Sep 3, 2026
Concentration and Third-Party Risk in Premier League Broadcast and Commercial Income — Part 1: The Global Rights Map
Behind football’s record revenues, rising valuations and ambitious ownership models sit two increasingly important questions: who controls the income, and who supplies the capital. Across seven parts, Paul Quinn first examines Premier League broadcast and commercial-income risk, before turning to private credit—how it works, who funds it and where the risks ultimately sit. Regular FootBiz editions will continue as usual, with these special reports published periodically over the coming weeks.
Paul Quinn
Sep 1, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #191: The Emerging-Markets Fund Betting on Northampton
Premier League crypto money frozen, Jamie Vardy becomes a broadcaster, Everton enters the ratio era and deadline day becomes balance-sheet day.
FootBiz Staff
Aug 29, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #190: When Footballers Become Club Owners
Thomas Müller’s move into club ownership, Nigeria’s $7.5m league deal, Barcelona’s new airline and football’s changing commercial map.
FootBiz Staff
Aug 25, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #189: Saudi Football’s Ownership Endgame
Plus: Venezia’s boat business, Serie A’s reach gamble, Wrexham’s new banker and Chelsea Women’s Stamford Bridge experiment.
FootBiz Staff
Aug 21, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #188: Football Sponsorship After the Betting Ban
Google’s AI play, Burnley’s 42-day sponsor, Salford’s Accenture model and the season ticket in a scarf.
FootBiz Staff
Aug 18, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #187: Chelsea’s Ownership Endgame, Germany’s 50+1 Victory and Football Content’s New Buyer
Plus: European football passes €40bn, Canadian investment reaches Cliftonville, CAF packages three AFCON cycles and Deadline Day approaches.
FootBiz Staff
Aug 17, 2026 · international coverage - asia
Jリーグ秋春制元年:世界基準と移籍市場への挑戦
Jリーグの新たな秋春制は、史上最多の観客動員で幕を開け...そして移籍金とセルオン条項を巡る静かな戦いも始まっている。
Shinya Kizaki
Aug 16, 2026
The League That Never Was: Inside the Long Death of Africa's Super League
Seven years after FIFA president Gianni Infantino promised the continent a $100 million competition, the African Football League has played 14 matches, crowned one champion and vanished. Patrice Motsepe says it is coming back later this year. However, the calendar says otherwise.
Owuraku Ampofo
Aug 14, 2026
FootBiz newsletter #186: Money, ownership and power across world football
This week's issue: Leicester's £200m sale search, the Bezos-backed Liverpool minority stake reportedly worth £4.4bn, the Premier League's post-gambling shirt-sponsorship scramble, and why Championship clubs are spending 96p of every £1 on wages.
FootBiz Staff
Aug 11, 2026
FIFA blinks, Arsenal cash in and football goes looking for a new kind of shirt sponsor
Plus: Charlton are back on the market, Serie A looks east, MLS prepares for life after Garber and the West Ham ownership story refuses to go quietly.
FootBiz Staff
Aug 7, 2026
The Future of Football Finance
In this fourth and final installment of Paul Quinn’s deep dive into the new era of club finances in Europe, we break down three plausible scenarios for European football’s cost-ratio era—and the decisions clubs should make now.
Paul Quinn
Aug 5, 2026
The New Economics of Player Trading: Valuations, Amortisation and the Inflation Hypothesis
Why cost-ratio rules reward young talent, amplify player-trading profits and create incentives to inflate prices.
Paul Quinn
Jul 31, 2026
Club strategies under cost-ratio regimes
How stadium revenue, commercial growth, academy production and wage discipline determine what clubs can spend.
Paul Quinn
Jul 29, 2026
The Rulebook — How UEFA, the Premier League and Europe's Other Regimes Now Police Club Spending
Financial Fair Play's loss-based era is over. In its place, a harder question every major league is now answering differently: how much of your revenue can you actually spend on players? UEFA's answer is already being enforced — with the first confirmed fines now on the board. The big five leagues are still working out their own.
Paul Quinn
Jul 21, 2026 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #184: System over self - this World Cup's lesson for football
How nations join the elite and why those running football don't care
FootBiz Staff
Jul 17, 2026 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #183: This will always be remembered as Trump's World Cup
Whoever wins it, the bigger story has been political intervention
FootBiz Staff
Jul 15, 2026
FootBiz Special Edition: FIFA, Political Interference and the Trump–Balogun Red Card Intervention
Political neutrality under the FIFA Statutes, the FIFA World Cup 2026 disciplinary intervention of 5 July 2026, comparative enforcement precedent, and the governance and commercial risks of perceived political capture
Paul Quinn
Jul 10, 2026 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #182: FIFA's legitimacy crisis posing on-field questions
People doubting the credibility of the product on the pitch is a huge issue for FIFA
FootBiz Staff
Jul 7, 2026 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #181: The Balogun affair is not about Folarin Balogun
It's a FIFA credibility crisis playing out on the biggest stage
FootBiz Staff