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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 β€˜umbrella’, each of which were already individually amongst the most significant
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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 that of Yao Ming and

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πŸ€– Why p/e is buying up talent agencies

πŸ€– Unofficial Briefing: Private Equity, Scale, and the Evolution of the Sports Talent Agency Market

Context: This briefing summarises a conversation examining the accelerating trend of consolidation and private equity (PE) investment in sports talent representation, analysing the financial drivers, operational challenges, and future direction of these scaled-up agencies. The series explores "sport and investment and, you know, money in a broader sense and its impact".


1. Market Consolidation and PE Investment

The sports agency sector is undergoing rapid corporatisation marked by significant consolidation. Recent examples include Bruin Capital purchasing four firms to form Nomi Sports/As One

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