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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.

International Coverage - Asia

Aug 17, 2026

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Jリーグ秋春制元年:世界基準と移籍市場への挑戦

Jリーグの新たな秋春制は、史上最多の観客動員で幕を開け...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

The League That Never Was: Inside the Long Death of Africa's Super League

Aug 16, 2026

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8 min read

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

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7 min read

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.

FIFA blinks, Arsenal cash in and football goes looking for a new kind of shirt sponsor

Aug 11, 2026

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7 min read

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.

Aug 7, 2026

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3 min read

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

The New Economics of Player Trading: Valuations, Amortisation and the Inflation Hypothesis

Aug 5, 2026

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6 min read

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

Club strategies under cost-ratio regimes

Jul 31, 2026

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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

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9 min read

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

Newsletter

Jul 21, 2026

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6 min read

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

Newsletter

Jul 17, 2026

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5 min read

FootBiz newsletter #183: This will always be remembered as Trump's World Cup

Whoever wins it, the bigger story has been political intervention

FootBiz Special Edition: FIFA, Political Interference and the Trump–Balogun Red Card Intervention

Jul 15, 2026

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10 min read

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

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FootBiz newsletter #187: Chelsea’s Ownership Endgame, Germany’s 50+1 Victory and Football Content’s New Buyer

Jリーグ秋春制元年:世界基準と移籍市場への挑戦

The League That Never Was: Inside the Long Death of Africa's Super League

FootBiz newsletter #186: Money, ownership and power across world football

FIFA blinks, Arsenal cash in and football goes looking for a new kind of shirt sponsor

The Future of Football Finance

The New Economics of Player Trading: Valuations, Amortisation and the Inflation Hypothesis

Club strategies under cost-ratio regimes

The Rulebook — How UEFA, the Premier League and Europe's Other Regimes Now Police Club Spending

FootBiz newsletter #184: System over self - this World Cup's lesson for football

FootBiz newsletter #183: This will always be remembered as Trump's World Cup

FootBiz Special Edition: FIFA, Political Interference and the Trump–Balogun Red Card Intervention

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