Football Finance

As one of the Premier League’s truly global brands and the adopted home of Mohamed Salah, Liverpool have often courted interest from the Middle East.…

Liverpool owners FSG are many things, but sclerotic is not one of them. The Boston-based regime know that we live in an attention economy. Data…

Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest’s multi-club connections are the tip of the iceberg in the Premier League, where 16 teams have ownership links to one…

Newcastle United and the Saudi Public Investment Fund know that in the Premier League, if you don’t have a seat at the big stadium table,…

Football finance has mutated since Stan Kroenke took majority control of Arsenal in 2011, but the value of clubs themselves has only gone one way,…

The Premier League is a marketplace and, as things stand, Liverpool are its top merchant. Their ultimate commodity? Advertising space – and few clients have…

Are you used to calling it the Hill Dickinson Stadium yet? Thought not – but naming rights are just the tip of the iceberg as…

The similarities between Newcastle United and Paris Saint-Germain go beyond their state ownerships. At the end of a 14-year project following Qatar Sports Investments’ takeover…

In Liverpool and their wider sports empire, FSG appear almost religiously committed to one of the maxims of the great investor Charlie Munger: don’t sell…

Bizarre as it may seem to fans frustrated by their limitations in the transfer market, some analysts believe Aston Villa are arguably one of the…

It’s all change at Tottenham. For now, manager Ange Postecoglou and chief football officer Scott Munn remain in situ, but they might not last the…

There are umpteen FSG tribute acts in the football club ownership racket but none who do it quite like John Henry, Mike Gordon and Tom…

Ahead of tomorrow night’s Champions League final, Arsenal fans are wondering what might have been. But for Stan Kroenke, 2024-25 has been an unqualified financial…

The Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) are often characterised as the system that insulates elite clubs like Arsenal from failure but, in reality,…

Liverpool owners FSG and their growing number of big-name private investors command one of global sport’s most valuable portfolios. As a result, they know all…