Cambodian prince offers €100m for Saint-Étienne
September 22 – Cambodian prince Norodom Ravichak has expressed interested in taking over Saint-Étienne, reportedly offering €100 million for the Ligue 1 club.
September 22 – Cambodian prince Norodom Ravichak has expressed interested in taking over Saint-Étienne, reportedly offering €100 million for the Ligue 1 club.
September 21 – Ares Management Corporation, an American global alternative investment manager, has closed a $150 million preferred equity deal with Inter Miami CF.
September 20 – Juventus have recorded a mammoth loss of €209.9 million for the 2020/21 season, but still remain convinced of a future European Super League as the solution to the club’s deep financial problems.
September 20 – Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund has agreed to the raising of €86.5 million via an increase in share capital. The new money will be used to cover the economic impact of the global pandemic on its finances.
September 20 – English championship club Derby County, twice crowned champions of English football back in the 1970s in the old first division, have filed for administration amid continued financial problems at the club.
September 17 – Barcelona’s president has painted a grim picture of the full extent of the club’s financial crisis, saying its debt had risen to an eye-watering €1.35 billion.
September 13 – With transferred players bedding themselves into their new clubs for the coming season, FIFA has published its International Transfer Snapshot (June – August 2021), that looks at player transfer activity during the last transfer window.
September 10 – Manchester City continue to top a ranking of club spending on transfer fees to assemble their squads, but Manchester United are getting close.
September 7 – Italy’s Serie A is reportedly back in the hunt for private equity finance plans with Bloomberg indicating they are looking to sell a €1.7 billion stake in the league’s new media rights business.
September 4 – The Pacific Media Group (PMG) has completed the takeover of Dutch club FC Den Bosch following the green light from the local licensing committee.
September 1 – English Premier League clubs spent over £1 billion in the summer transfer window that closed on Tuesday – but overall spending dropped for the second year in a row.
September 1 – Spanish second division club Real Oviedo have belatedly opted in favour of La Liga’s €2.1 billion agreement with private equity firm CVC.
August 31 – An eye-watering $48.5 billion (€41.1 billion) was splashed out on international transfer fees over the past decade, almost half of which was spent by the top 30 clubs with English clubs leading the way, according to a new FIFA report.
August 25 – Europe’s top five leagues took a €2 billion revenue hit last season because of the season being forced to be played behind closed doors due to global health crisis, according to a report by consultancy KPMG.
August 24 – Florentino Pérez is not a man to be held hostage. After rebelling against the CVC-La Liga agreement, the Real Madrid club president has opened negotiations with JP Morgan for a deal of his own.