Why leveraged takeovers are bad for football
By Tom Dunmore • Jan 24th, 2008 • Category: Politics and Economics
Are leveraged buy-outs bad for football? Two experts slug it out.

Are leveraged buy-outs bad for football? Two experts slug it out.

What Glazer, Hicks and Gillett could learn from a quiet American.
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Manchester United Chief Executive’s house “attacked” by angry anti-Glazer protesters.

What’s going on with the rich men running Liverpool and Newcastle?

Did the Glazers mislead the government when they promised not to raise ticket prices?

Is the disbanding of the G14 a victory for anyone other than the self-serving elite of world football?

Why Man Utd’s record profits aren’t something supporters should celebrate.
You may have heard Fergie’s rant about the fans at Old Trafford for the 1-0 win over Birmingham on New Year’s Day — “That was the quietest I have heard the crowd, it was like a funeral,” Ferguson said, “The players need the crowd sometimes but the atmosphere inside the ground wasn’t good.”
But what most […]
Superleagues, ego, politics, diplomacy, money, money, money. The chess battle between UEFA and Europe’s biggest clubs continues to go on, but today, there was a strong indication the endgame is here.
The G-14, the now misnamed grouping of eighteen elite self-selected European clubs, seems likely to extinguish itself soon with a new organisation apparently to […]