Football club owners can take teams to the heights of the Champions League or send them out of existence entirely. They have to tread a precarious tightrope, navigating the issues presented by super leagues, rapidly escalating wages, transfer fees and financial fair play.
Who Owns Football? uncovers the jeopardy, strategies, transformative successes and horror stories, steering you through the complex world in which the people who control our game live and operate. There's the owner who was a safe-breaker, the man who tried to burn down his own stadium and even one who was accused of war crimes.
This insightful guide is full of fascinating characters, high finance and shady deals. Miller examines the forces at play and discusses how today's football club ownership models face up to an impending crisis. But among the potential doom, there are some bright lights, people who are doing things differently and might make you think there is some hope after all.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Andy Mitten is editor-at-large for FourFourTWO and writes for The Athletic. He founded the best-selling United We Stand fanzine and has interviewed over 500 famous footballers past and present in over 100 countries. Born and bred in Manchester, he divides his time between the city of his birth and Barcelona. He appears regularly on the Talk of the Devils podcast for The Athletic and can be found on X as @AndyMitten
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Sport
Published: Nov 7, 2024
Price: £18.99
ISBN-10: 1399417169
ISBN-13: 978-1399417167
Hardback: 256 pages
Dimensions: 163 x 242 mm
