August 17 – Leon Musk, the world’s richest man, may have been joking when he tweeted about his interest in buying Manchester United but another billionaire is reported to be deadly serious.
August 18 – In the dark depths of the covid pandemic football clubs were forced to lock out their fans. But even without match day revenues, the European football market grew by 10% (€2.4billion) in 2020/21 to €27.6 billion.
August 18 – Valencia have confirmed Layhoon Chan (pictured) will become the new president with various boardroom changes taking place at the club.
August 16 – Scottish Premiership clubs have targeted an increase in the SPFL’s annual distributable income to £50 million by 2029, following a Deloitte review of the league’s commercial operations.
August 15 – After all the noise of Barcelona struggling to register their new signings with LaLiga, the club eventually opened their season with a 0-0 draw against and with four of their big money signings cleared to play.
August 15 – Of the 14 promoted clubs starting the new season in Europe’s Big 5 leagues, the promoted Premier League clubs have a combined squad value of more than double the other leagues.
August 10 – Two days after Insideworldfootball and other media outlets reported that debt-ridden Barcelona are being blocked from registering all their summer signings by La Liga, there is still no breakthrough with the Spanish season almost upon us.
August 9 – The CVC-funded Boost LaLiga programme, that will see the venture capitalist invest nearly $2 billion in LaLiga’s commercial business entity, has now see its club membership grow to 40 teams.
August 5 – NHL stars Victor Hedman and Ondrej Palat have invested in League One club Plymouth Argyle.
August 2 – Former Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas will become a shareholder at Italian Serie B club Como following his move to Italy.
August 2 – FC Barcelona has sold a 24.5% stake in Barca Studios, the club’s digital content and distribution hub, for $100 million to blockchain technology provider Chiliz.com, owner of the Socios.com Fan Token and NFT platform.
July 27 – There are 218 players from South America currently playing in Europe’s Big Five leagues, 100 of them from Brazil and 70 of them playing in Spain’s LaLiga.
July 22 – Spanish giants Barcelona have sold another 15% of their La Liga television rights to US investment firm Sixth Street to generate funds to spend in the transfer market.
July 22 – Chelsea’s new owners have raised £800 million in debt to help with future planning in the post-Abramovich era, focusing on revamping the squad and infrastructure.
July 21 – Inter Milan owner Steven Zhang has failed to wriggle out of $255 million of outstanding debts held by Suning Xiaodian, loans that he personally guaranteed.