I knew 'Serviette maths' would get attention.
From Martyn Ziegler's column on Saturday.
UP in The Times
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Forget MCOs, MAGs are the next problem
Why does private equity want to be a football agent?
That was a question posed by Daniel Geey on Other People's Money, our sports finance podcast series.
Jonathan Booker has written an interesting set of newsletters on this topic.
Good point here:
What is notable, and what warrants serious attention, is the scale at which this has now occurred in the world of football/soccer agency. For example, the mergers and/or acquisitions that saw American giant CAA bring together the UK behemoths Base and Stellar under the CAA ‘umbrella’, each of which were already individually amongst the most
Post Son - what happens to Spurs' Korean fanbase now?
Yang Min-hyuk has just been signed on loan by Coventry City, his third loan club since his transfer to Tottenham in 2024 as an 18 year old K League wunderkind.
It’s far too soon to label him the Next Son Heung-min (This is almost a great joke, albeit probably racist).
Son Heung-min has left Spurs for the MLS.
The impact of his departure is felt far beyond the pitch. South Korea account for just over 50% of Tottenham's global fanbase according to a previous Turnstile report.
The same report compared the Spurs-Sonny relationship with
Global fan as hallucination
The global fan is one of those stories I’m beginning to lose faith in, like the conversion funnel and the pursuit of happiness.
The global fan exists because Netflix, Amazon and Apple want it to exist. And for as along as they want it to exist, the rights holders will play along.
At Sportel last year, Marissa Banu-Lawrence of Fox Sports put it well (on a very good APAC panel hosted by Imran Yusuf of SportBusiness): Australia is hyper localised. Even within Oz you have to go state by state. Australian sports fans are nuts for
