PLUS: how do you help a new signing settle? Player care Q+A with Hugo Scheckter
With everyone in football setting out their own position on a new regulator, UEFA's unexpected intervention has heightened tensions
In a bumper edition of the newsletter, we also hit Man City's 115 charges, FIFA's clearing house and a hedge fund billionaire helping out US soccer
There is a lot at stake for the league, for City's owners in Abu Dhabi and many more besides
Including: the problem with cost control measures, John Textor's plan, the rise of the buyback, where scouting fits in the modern recruitment operation and much more