Untold Money

The economics of football

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Untold Economics is part of “Untold Arsenal” – an ever growing collection of articles and comment on numerous aspects of football from a pro-Arsenal perspective.  A list of other sections within Untold Arsenal is given at the end of this page, and on the home page of the site.

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Club finances

• How knowing who the ref is can help you beat the bookies
• What is wrong with PL refs? Case study: Clattenburg
• Be careful in wishing for new owners

• Financial Fair Play faces its first big test.

Football finance is about to explode: latest from Real Madrid and PSG

• • Arsenal’s worth almost double that of Chelsea; Man City worth less than Tottenham
• Taxpayers money is going to support clubs in debt
• Administration and bankruptcy among football clubs. The story continu

• State subsidy of West Ham United reaches £387m
• Spanish football is about to collapse; warning sign for British clubs

• Why the clubs outside the Premier League are angry, but will soon calm down
• Having a very rich owner who invests in the club, could be a disaster for Arsenal
• Buying clubs in other leagues. Why it is happening, and where if leaves FFP.
• Where are we now, where might we have been
• Transfer spend and league position; Arsenal, Aston Villa and Chelsea

• Is Financial Fair Play really all for (or because of) Arsenal?

Who is going to sue Uefa first?

EC Demands Reform of the Transfer System

Gambling, ref fixing, money laundering… all part of English football’s rich pagent

A fair and balanced competition. The EU is about to act.

FFP creeps into the Premier League

• Premier League Financial Fair Play to be agreed
• Football corruption – not just about gambling, it’s also about influence
• Farewell sad France; Ligue 1 dies as Qatar takes over

What is really going on inside Arsenal? It’s not so hard to work out.

Arsenal, Tottenham, Man U and Liverpool united against Chelsea, Man C, WBA and Fulham

• Transfer fees and FFP: a revolution in the making.

• What can we do about wages

 

• Man City and Chelsea – serious about FFP or just having a laugh? And Arsenal’s youth ready to step up.

• Malaga banned from Europe under FFP

• Agents fees 2011/2012 exceed £77m; an Untold review
• Does Barcelona pay their players to speculate in the transfer market?
• Maybe the money model in football is flawed after all.

• • Arsenal to play in red and blue stripped shirts with blue shorts?
  • Djourou to score 2 goals on Wednesday: 175/1
• Football corruption allegations keep rolling along
• As cheap as the 6th division
• Playing clubs to win and not playing your strongest team
• Money can also buy you troubles

• Munchester City v Arsenal. Tongues of fire and blood stretched above, Shivering with fear, I heard the infinite scream

• Uefa hands out 23 punishments
• Tom Fox suggests there is life in Premier League Fair Play plans

• It is not so much the transfer fees, it is the salaries that are the problem
• What exactly is the thinking behind the transfer policy of Futbol Club Barcelona?
• Man U and Liverpool prepare to out-manoeuvre Chelsea and Man C in a dramatic rule change

• Liverpool’s finances not in the best of shapes
• Uefa squares up to the Billionaire clubs

How Arsenal might play if Mr Usmanov was in charge.

• Is it time for a wage cap in the Premier League

Why bother with internationals, when countries can own clubs?

• How come everyone else spends billions but we don’t

• • • Football as an indication of a source of madness
  • Which club has the most debt
• We must be doing something right if we are annoying Sir F Word
• Welcome to the New Arsenal – Welcome to the new Football

Is £203m per trophy a sane way to spend money?

As Man U’s sponsorship deal unravels, we wonder what’s going on

• The Vapour Transfer: how the mechanisms of football have been corrupted
• The transfer market is on the edge of collapse – and the changes are working in Arsenal’s favour

• The trouble with football is that it keeps going wrong
• New rules on police costs spell danger

• Custodianship and self sufficiency: where do we go from here?

• Untold Economics: How Mr Usmanov wants to use a rights issue in his takeover

• Untold Economics: Red and White are planning a takeover using non-dividend equity.  Beware!

Why should English clubs bother with what’s happening at Rangers?

The clubs whose owners want to bail out, but who can’t find a buyer

 

The Billionaire Files:

• How governments are taking over football
• This is a moment that Arsenal should spend a little cash.  £100m anyone?
• If trophies were on offer, where would you draw the line?
• Arsenal to play in blue and white at home next season
• How football is being taken over, and the dangers that are emerging
• As the billionaires take over football clubs, Fifa urges “direct action”
• Usmanov and Kronke – what a deal would mean for each of them
• The billionaire clubs – their owners and their success

Financial Alert: Could Arsenal be forced to De-List in the near future?

• As Bankia fails:  Real Madrid is teetering on the abyss

Money doesn’t guarantee success in the EPL but it helps

It is possible to beat teams like Chelsea and Man C, but it takes care and patience

Is football all about trophies?  Not any more it isn’t

How Rangers FC came to own shares in Arsenal, and what happened to those shares

Untold Finances: Reading FC – a suitable case for investigation.

With money in the bank will Arsenal now spend?  Here’s why not.

The Summer that was: transfer fees, wages and the “best” approach to the market.

Lenny Henry, Shakespeare, Crisis, Making it Up, Money

UNTOLD ECONOMICS

Money Laundering and Football – an investigation

When a club is bought, spends big and collapses.  How money laundering in football works

Money laundering is not complicated, you just need a cash generating business.  Football is a cash generating business

• ECONOMICS: Could Man U be in financial trouble?
• FINANCE: As Man C, Man U and PSG find out, money doesn’t always buy success
  

ECONOMICS: “A world class organisation with a winning mentality”

Could it be that Swiss Ramble has made a mistake?

Arsenal has opened Pandora’s Box

Football in economics crisis: Glasgow Rangers

Football in economics crisis : Birmingham

The Royal Bank of Football

Dream or nightmare: a European superleague

What to buy this weekend at the Emirates, and how clubs are swindling the taxman

Are Spanish clubs fighting back at last against Barca and Real Mad?

Rangers like Everton are right on the edge

If we didn’t have world wide scouting we would be like Everton: at the edge of the world

Are Arsenal a selling club

Theirry Henry cost Barca €500,000 a game and brought them to financial ruin.  Is Mr Wenger about to pull off the same trick with Cesc?

The AST isn’t happy

Financial Fair Play.  Where now?   Where next?

Roman Abramovich and Michel Platini. Who is kidding whom?

The purchase of Paris St Germain is going to affect the EPL big time.

Barca beat Man U in the bankruptcy final.  Billy the Dog on the problems still to come

Arsene’s transfer war chest.  Does it exist?

The Premier League faces record losses, and disaster is just around the corner

For the first time in around 100 years, one man owns most of our club

Financial fair play – a load of fuss about nothing

Arsenal third in the rich list

Man U loses reach record levels

Football on TV – will we now at last get some sort of improvement

Arsenal Supporters Trust make representation to the Enquiry into Football Governance

Untold’s Submission to the Commons Enquiry on Football: let’s sort out the EPL/Championship divide

What exactly is wrong with football accounting: part of our submission to the Common Enquiry into Football.

Arsenal and Man U: a comparison in debt

Premier League and club by club analysis

Latest:

Financing the Emirates

The Commons Inquiry into Football Governance

How fast can a club go into free fall?  Tony Attwood on the case of Leeds, Liverpool, Man U and Rangers

Is Mr Usmanov about to take over the club?

How EPL clubs and their owners avoid paying tax

Football stumbles to financial insanity

It is time to stop clubs using administration law as a way of funding their gambling

Why Man IOU will not qualify for Europe

In football we are running out of benefactors,

Football: law suits, player revolt, useless medics, pathetic Uefa, bankruptcy, and “not that kind of manager”

Tottenham’s journey to the East End and Liverpool’s descent into the blackness

New appeal over showing live football in pubs on saturdays

Can Man C and Chelsea really meet UEFA’s financial requirements?

Beyond the financials, what does it all mean?

Arsenal’s financials: the in-depth analysis

Arsenal’s financial miracle.  Compare, contrast, enjoy

Liverpool: the endgame

Liverpool are likely to become the first EPL side owned by the state

Manchester City get involved with squad doping

How Arsenal became the largest brand in English football

The twinkle of a fading star: How Liverpool reached rock bottom

Could Arsenal be heading for a leveraged buyout?

How to be incredibly stupid

Half a league half a league half a league in debt and onwards

Why football finances are so hard to believe, and the particular case of Tottenham – concluding our series of articles on the Totts numbers

Tottenham – False Profits

Liverpool: The world gone wrong

Newcastle Newcastle Newcastle! Where to begin?

The Premier League: where is it all going wrong?

Manchester United – well organised, profitable, but…

Chelsea – the operating loss to end all operating losses

Arsenal – a story of profit and planning

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The background reports

Barca on the edge of defaulting on their debts

Barca teeter on the very edge

Liverpool - why no one wants to buy one of the biggest clubs

How the bankers are taking over football

New UEFA financial regulations are starting to have an effect

UEFA accept new financial regs

Financial doping regs - background and details

UK tax authorities issues writ against whole Premier League

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