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Jan 30, 2025 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #52: Champions League finale lacks fireworks while VAR survives vote to kill it off
Is VAR like the sci-fi robot that becomes self-aware and prevents you from killing it? Who are we to rule it out?
Matt Hughes
Jan 29, 2025 · finance · Premium
As other revenue streams flatten, football's arms race on stadiums has begun
State-of-the-art facilities that provide year-round corporate and events revenue are the new edge on elite competition in football
Rob Draper
Jan 28, 2025 · media
FootBiz newsletter #51: DAZN's losses, Man United, el clásico and Champions League denouement
The Swiss format reaches its dramatic crescendo this week, but has Europe's premier club competition improved or just expanded?
Matt Hughes
Jan 24, 2025 · politics · Premium
Parachute payments and oligopoly: is the Premier League becoming a closed shop?
With the three promoted sides looking destined to be relegated for the second successive season, Rob Draper asks if there are structural issues that the league must fix?
Rob Draper
Jan 23, 2025 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #50: Ligue 1 crisis looming? Naomi Girma, Man City accusations and the end of VAR
A packed newsletter to notch up the half-century mark
Matt Hughes
Jan 21, 2025 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #49: Barcelona count cost of Camp Nou delay, Real Madrid elections, Chelsea investment
PLUS: the Champions League makes it January debut and a PSR update
Matt Hughes
Jan 16, 2025 · finance
FootBiz newsletter #48: Chelsea escape points deduction, PIF investing in DAZN and a major US lawsuit
Plus: Wrexham's potential path to the UEFA Conference League
Matt Hughes
Jan 15, 2025 · finance · Premium
Joan Laporta and FC Barcelona are irreconcilable contradictions
The worst-run megabrand on the planet is also a successful club on the cusp of huge new revenue streams. We try to make sense of it
Rob Draper
Jan 14, 2025
FootBiz newsletter #47: Have Leicester avoided PSR reckoning? Plus John Textor re-ignites PSG row, Barca and Milan news
It's PSR day in England, and everyone's waiting to find out if the Premier League's rules were worth anything at all
Matt Hughes
Jan 9, 2025 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #46: Barcelona's stay of execution, inside Graham Potter's return and Arsenal's new sporting director?
PLUS: news on investment in Eagle Football, refinancing elsewhere in the Premier League and some housekeeping
Matt Hughes
Jan 8, 2025 · politics · Premium
Why VAR is doomed. A failed experiment that needs to be scrapped
There are several realities we must accept, and one is that you can’t have common sense refereeing and consistency
Rob Draper
Jan 7, 2025 · finance
FootBiz newsletter #45: Latest on Barcelona mess, identity of Reading buyer revealed
PLUS: Andrea Berta issues the first-ever 'come-and-get-me plea' by a sporting director
Matt Hughes
Jan 6, 2025 · finance
A new era of football club ownership is about to begin
Football is a sport that is addicted to borrowing from future earnings but kept getting its fix. That can't and won't go on...
FootBiz Staff
Jan 2, 2025 · finance
FootBiz newsletter #44: Barcelona's enduring mess, Amazon's strategy and PSR season
If there are any levers left in the Catalonia region, please report to the Nou Camp
Matt Hughes
Jan 1, 2025 · newsletter
The one thing we'd change about football
If you could change just one thing about the sport we love, what would it be?
FootBiz Staff
Dec 24, 2024 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #33: Bumper Xmas edition as Netflix enter football
Sky Sports' new target, a windfall for Liverpool and Arsenal plus too many news items to mention
Matt Hughes
Dec 19, 2024 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #32: is the Unify League even supposed to work?
The rebranded and reworked Super League still has more questions than answers
Matt Hughes
Dec 18, 2024 · legal · Premium
Whatever happens, the Premier League and Manchester City must find peace in 2025
In a fitting message for the festive season, Rob Draper says the league, and its relationship with its members, needs a reset
Rob Draper
Dec 17, 2024 · media
FootBiz newsletter #31: the texts that sent John Textor and Nasser al-Khelaifi's spat nuclear, plus drama in Mexico
Maybe it's the time of year but what a spicy week in the business of football
Matt Hughes
Dec 12, 2024 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #30: FIFA fallout, an INEOS deep dive and more
PLUS: Why did CONMEBOL get taken out of the World Cup rotation in exchange for just three games
Matt Hughes
Dec 11, 2024 · data · Premium
The INEOS curse: what evidence is there Sir Jim Ratcliffe can bring success to Manchester United?
From cycling to sailing via Nice and Lausanne, how can we be sure he knows what he's doing?
Rob Draper
Dec 10, 2024 · data
FootBiz newsletter #29: why Dan Ashworth left Manchester United, plus Nike, Man City and more
A big move by the Old Trafford club analysed and dissected
Matt Hughes
Dec 9, 2024 · politics · Premium
This week's World Cup 'vote' is short on details and democracy
As FIFA prepares for hosts to be announced by applauding acclamation, dissenters appear to have given up
Matt Hughes
Dec 5, 2024 · media
FootBiz newsletter #28: DAZN's Club World Cup deal, Bundesliga TV rights and Premier League lobbying
A bit of a Club World Cup special on the morning of the expanded tournament's draw
Matt Hughes
