August 11 – European football awoke from its spending slumber last week with mammoth deals for Moises Caicedo (Liverpool though Chelsea may have landed him last minute) Josko Gvardiol (Man City) and Rasmus Hojlund (Man Utd) taking centre stage, alongside Portuguese striker Gonçalo Ramos (PSG).
August 11 – Liverpool have agreed a British record transfer fee of £111 million with Brighton for midfielder Moises Caicedo, seemingly grabbing the Ecuador star from under the noses of Chelsea.
August 11 – Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa, whose shares are trade on the New York Stock Exchange, will pay a $95 million settlement to a group of investors who claimed that Televisa’s alleged bribery to obtain broadcast rights to four World Cups cost them millions of dollars in share value.
August 10 – The Premier League is investigating potential financial rule breaches at Chelsea under the regime of previous owner Roman Abramovich.
August 8 – Portugal star Gonçalo Ramos is joining PSG from Benfica in a one-year loan deal, with a which has a 65 million obligation to buy at the end of the loan. The fee could rise to €80 million including add-ons for the -23-year-old.
August 4 – It’s been a quiet week for big spending in Europe, with the top deal coming from Saudi club Al-Hilal’s inflated signing of Malcom from Zenit St Petersburg for €60 million.
August 3 – Ex-NFL star Tom Brady has entered a partnership with Knighthead Capital Management LLC to become a minority owner of Birmingham City in the EFL Championship.
July 31 – Allan Saint-Maximin has become the latest player to swap the Premier League for the Saudi Pro League after leaving Newcastle United to join Al-Ahli for a reported transfer fee of £30 million.
July 28 – Young players are again high in demand this summer, as teams around Europe undergo a ‘rebuild’ phase.
July 26 – Joe Lewis, the Bahamas-based British billionaire and veteran owner of Premier League Tottenham Hotspur, has been sensationally charged in New York with “orchestrating a brazen insider trader scheme”.
July 21 – AA Gent will remain in Belgian ownership hands with Sam Baro taking control of the Flemish club, replacing current owner Ivan de Witte.
July 18 – The owners of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers have assumed full control of English tier-2 club Leeds United after the English Football League formally approved a £170 million takeover by 49ers Enterprises.
July 18 – Manchester City’s Erling Haaland has overtaken PSG ‘want-away’ Kylian Mbappé as the world’s most valuable player, according to the latest update of Football Benchmark’s Player Valuation platform.
July 10 – Belgian club KV Kortrijk will remain in the hands of owner Vincent Tan after a proposed takeover by the Kaminksi Group failed to be completed.
July 4 – Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia has reduced its debt to the National Revenue Agency (NRA) by nearly BGN 2 million (€1milion). Levski had come under criticism from fans for not providing any accounting for the donations from the supporters.