As we enter the final weeks of the 2025-26 Premier League season, a seismic commercial shift is looming over English football. Come August, the voluntary collective agreement to withdraw gambling sponsorship from the front of match-day shirts will officially take effect.

Everton have replaced their traditional Director-of-Football (DoF) model with a deliberately “flatter” recruitment architecture that parcels the old DoF remit among four senior specialists working alongside manager David Moyes and new CEO Angus Kinnear. The club argues the structure is more resilient, more transparent and better aligned with modern data-driven decision-making. Yet it also changes the way agents must navigate Finch Farm, raising strategic questions for every agent who hopes to place talent there - or at any club that may copy the blueprint.

NBA Finals MVP Jimmy Butler is part of a U.S.-led consortium preparing a bid of “well over $200 million” for John Textor’s 43 per cent holding in Crystal Palace. The group—fronted by sports-investment bankers Bejan Esmaili and Wajid Mir—has already entered an exclusivity period with Textor’s Eagle Football and expects to lodge its formal offer before UEFA rules on Palace’s Europa League eligibility.

Nottingham Forest have formally written to UEFA questioning whether Crystal Palace should be allowed to play in next season’s Europa League after their surprise FA Cup triumph. However, there could be a twist if Textor is forced into a rapid sale. Is this a carefully orchestrated move by Textor and Forest owner Marinakis? We explore the possible implications.

Like any other business, football teams can have money problems that can lead to insolvency. Even though the sport is popular around the world and brings in a lot of money, some clubs have had trouble making ends meet, which has led to administration and even closure. This post looks into why football teams go bankrupt, what happens when they do, some examples of clubs that have gone bankrupt, and what could be done to avoid these kinds of financial problems in the future.

Football clubs are complicated businesses that make money in many ways. To understand the sport's economics, you need to know how they make money. Let's take a close look at how football clubs make money and what the pros and cons of each method are.

In order to compete with the UEFA Champions League, the European Super League (ESL) was proposed as a yearly club football competition. The plan was to include 20 of the best clubs in Europe, with 15 regular members and 5 teams that would qualify each year based on how well they did in their own countries. Basically, the ESL was made to make a more profitable and popular tournament around the world that would have regular high-profile games between football's biggest teams.

Recent years have seen a big rise in multi-club ownership in football, which has changed the way the sport is played. This model involves an individual or a consortium owning multiple football clubs from different leagues and nations. As the football business grows and changes, owning more than one club brings its own set of opportunities and challenges that will shape the future of the game.