📰 Club Football

SportBusiness

Todd Boehly and Mark Walter are close to selling their Chelsea stakes to Clearlake Capital.

The Athletic

Cherry juice is the Premier League's new must-have supplement, roughly four seasons behind marathoners.

Front Office Sports

The Premier League's twenty clubs spent a combined $4.7 billion in the European transfer window.

Front Office Sports

Further reading from the day's section on the Clippers penalty and billionaire team owners.

Front Office Sports

Premier League clubs spent a record $4.7B in the window, more than LaLiga, the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Serie A combined.

ESPN

Stan Kroenke's $4B Angels purchase makes him the only owner with a franchise in the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS and Premier League.

The Athletic

The Premier League window closed at a record £3.5bn, headlined by Enzo Fernández to Manchester City for $170m.

Observer

Rory Smith examines how Chelsea and Manchester City became expert price-gougers of their own Premier League rivals.

Men in Blazers

Enzo Fernández's $170m move to Manchester City made him the first player ever to sell twice for more than $135m.

The Athletic

The rights-market consequences of Sky's buyout of ITV for football-watching in the UK.

Private equity

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's reading list.

Financial Review

Premier League clubs committed €2.7B to transfers in a league that hasn't collectively turned a profit since 2018.

Off The Pitch

Nine clubs in UEFA's 11th-to-30th ranked leagues won their first title in over a decade last season, and none was its league's biggest spender.

The Athletic

The Athletic investigated why Mark Walter and Todd Boehly are selling up at Chelsea.

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's reading list.

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on sports team ownership changes.

Global Game HQ

The Premier League opened 33 days after the World Cup final, running simultaneous watch parties in 15 US cities.

The Athletic

Mark Walter and Todd Boehly are selling their Chelsea stake.

CNBC

Fenway Sports Group sold 30% of Liverpool FC for about £1.65bn to 1892 Holdings, backed by Jeff Bezos and Eduardo Saverin.

Liverpool FC

A Bezos-backed consortium took about a third of Liverpool from FSG at a valuation just over $7 billion.

The Athletic

Liverpool confirmed a roughly 33% minority sale at a $7B-plus valuation to a consortium including Jeff Bezos, his first pro sports investment.

SportBusiness

UEFA, the AFC and Concacaf are pushing for Gianni Infantino's resignation.

The Times

Infantino is backing CONMEBOL's push for a 64-team 2030 World Cup to lock in South American votes.

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on the Lakers sale, team valuations and venues.

The Athletic

UEFA, Concacaf and the AFC jointly called for Infantino's resignation, and Trump said removing him would be a terrible mistake.

The Stadium Business

Further reading from the day's section on sports business.

Stadium financing

MLS

MLS owners named LAFC co-owner and former Apollo partner Larry Berg commissioner, succeeding Don Garber on January 1, 2027.

Puck

John Ourand reconstructs a four-round MLS commissioner vote that ended with Larry Berg.

The Athletic

FIFA scrapped its $4.2 billion deal to sell 21% of its commercial operations to Josh Kushner's Thrive Eternal after UEFA, Concacaf and the AFC rejected it.

Semafor

FIFA abandoned its plan to spin off its commercial arm as a $20 billion private entity after a revolt across world soccer and a UEFA boycott threat.

The Athletic

UEFA's 55 member associations voted to boycott all FIFA competitions, men's and women's, including the upcoming Women's World Cup.

The Athletic

Concacaf rejected the plan, as did the Asian Football Confederation, together with UEFA close to two-thirds of FIFA's 211 members.

The Athletic

Infantino defended the stake sale as a golden opportunity after UEFA voted to boycott the World Cup and all FIFA competitions.

The Athletic

Apollo proposed a $1.1B loan to the Bundesliga backed by twenty years of media rights.

Streaming rights

The Athletic

MLS owners will hear proposed roster and spending rule changes at the Charlotte board meeting.

Awful Announcing

Further reading from the day's section on who owns the upside in sports business.

The Athletic

Further reading from the day's section on the trade deadline, the WNBA commissioner and prediction markets.

The Athletic

Spain and Morocco are openly competing to host the 2030 final, which CONMEBOL says will balloon to 64 teams.