March 28 – Clubs worldwide have secured a whopping 70% increase in their share of World Cup revenues for the 2026 and 2030 tournaments. FIFA has increased its payments to clubs for the release of players to $355 million. For the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the figure was a combined $209 million.
March 28 – Chelsea reported losses of £121 million in 2021-22, with the club citing the sanctions imposed on former owner Roman Abramovich as a major factor.
March 28 – American player agency CRD Sport has opened negotiations for the acquisition of Bulgaria’s top tier club Pirin Blagoevgrad.
March 24 – The race to buy Manchester United is hotting up with little-known Finnish entrepreneur Thomas Zilliacus entering the fray.
March 22 – Wolverhampton Wanderers owner Fosun reportedly wants to invest in KV Oostende, a Belgian top flight club currently struggling at the bottom of the table and owned by Pacific Media Group (PMG).
March 22 – A second round of bids to buy Manchester United is due later today with Qatar’s Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani reportedly set to make an improved offer.
March 14 – Miami-based private equity firm 777 Partners has bought a 64.7% majority stake in Hertha Berlin, buying the shares of disaffected owner Lars Windhorst, held by his Peil Investment group.
March 9 – Germany’s football league (DFL) wants to tighten rules to stop investors taking full control of clubs.
By David Owen
March 8 – Leicester City, the Midlands club enduring what by their recent standards is an undistinguished season in the lower reaches of the Premier League, have reported a near tripling of pre-tax losses for the year to end-May 2022.
By David Owen
March 7 – Chinese-owned Wolverhampton Wanderers, currently experiencing an upturn in on-field fortunes under Spanish manager Julen Lopetegui, have posted a £46.1 million pre-tax loss for the year to end-May 2022.
March 7 – Serbian Dragan Šolak, a majority shareholder in owner Sport Republic who are having a torrid time with their ownership of Southampton in the Premier League, has said that he pulled out of buying leading Bulgarian club Levski because of the huge debt the club had built up.
By Paul Nicholson
March 3 – LaLiga’s CEO Javier Tebas took another swipe at Europe’s state funded clubs who he says have broken and continue to break all the financial rules, saying it has “taken too long” for the Premier League to bring financial breaches charges against Manchester City.
March 3 – The English Premier League has been urged to re-examine a legally binding promise made by Newcastle United’s Saudi owners that the Middle East state would not have control of the club.
By David Owen
March 1 – Liverpool’s remarkable 2021-22 season has helped to restore the Merseyside club to profit. The Reds have served notice that pre-tax profit weighed in at £7.5 million in the year to end-May 2022; this compared with a loss of £4.8 million the previous year.
February 24 – At the beginning of February, Deloitte crunched the numbers for Premier League transfer spending, looking back at the recent January Wwindow, as well as the spending in the summer of 2022. As Deloitte pointed out, the figures were startling, with records being broken on all fronts.