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38 articles
Jul 9, 2025 · finance
FootBiz newsletter #91: D-Day for Lyon, Barca's latest issues and will PL close swap deal loophole?
Plus: UK's football regulator to become law and Chelsea's CWC windfall
Matt Hughes
Jun 13, 2025 · politics
The Club World Cup is here, and with it football's long-awaited new battleground
You can see this tournament in a number of ways, but mainly as FIFA's tanks arriving on UEFA's lawn
Rob Draper
May 30, 2025 · politics · Premium
Sovereign wealth vs private equity: The Champions League final is a microcosm of elite football's modern tussle
One of the most famous state-backed projects takes on a club owned by a US fund - what could be more fitting in 2025?
Rob Draper
Mar 7, 2025 · legal
Competition law and carve outs: How does the Premier League untie its Gordian knot?
Either a collective bargaining agreement, carve out or full rules amnesty and reset could be needed to unpick football's legal spiral
Rob Draper
Mar 6, 2025 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #62: FIFA provides more details on $2bn Club World Cup
Non-participating clubs will share a $150m 'solidarity' fund but questions remain
Matt Hughes
Feb 17, 2025 · legal
Analysis: How Manchester City's latest legal challenge has paralysed the Premier League's attempts at reform
While the league's owners are more united than in recent years, planned changes are now on ice until the legal battles reach a definitive judgement
Matt Hughes
Feb 11, 2025 · newsletter
FootBiz newsletter #55: legal battles for the Premier League and Real Madrid go on the warpath
It's a bumper newsletter today with lots of people in football seemingly very unhappy with other people in football
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 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 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 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
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 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 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 4, 2024 · politics · Premium
By cosying up to power, FIFA knows it can get away with whatever it wants
Once the Trump show is over, we'll face nearly a decade of FIFA ducking and diving important questions on Saudi Arabia's World Cup
Rob Draper
Dec 2, 2024 · politics
What you missed from FIFA's Friday news dump
For premium subscribers: World football's governing body ignored their own human rights sub-committee on Qatar, then published a 'whitewash' report on the Saudi bid
FootBiz Staff
Nov 28, 2024 · media
FootBiz newsletter #26: Real Madrid prepare to welcome private investment
PLUS: a big media case in the US, M&A murmurs, Premier League legal news and States of Play
Matt Hughes
Nov 27, 2024 · data · Premium
How academia helped shape the new school of Portuguese coaches
A country of just 10 million people punches above its weight thanks to a more open mind towards education
Rob Draper
Nov 22, 2024 · politics · Premium
Analysis: The Premier League defeats Manchester City in APT vote
Only Aston Villa, Newcastle and Nottm Forest sided with City on the amendments
Matt Hughes
Nov 19, 2024 · finance
FootBiz newsletter #24: Why Barcelona and Lyon both need to find €100m... quickly
PLUS: England hope to play friendlies in the USA, APT rules set for vote and more
Matt Hughes
Nov 13, 2024 · politics · Premium
As FIFA continues to dodge accountability, is reform even possible?
And does FIFA even acknowledge the need to reform? Unfortunately we know the answer to that, but Rob Draper has some ideas
Rob Draper
Oct 31, 2024 · finance
FootBiz newsletter #19: Amorim, FIFA, PIF, Eagle Football, WSL and a bribery investigation
There is a lot going on in the world of football this week, so we tried to cover everything you might have missed (plus a little more Man United)
Matt Hughes
