🇺🇸 Hollywood actor Will Ferrell has joined Leeds United as a minority investor, as he buys a small stake in the Championship club to join the club’s general partners 49ers Enterprises, who already have a number of high-profile minority stakeholders.
⭐️ Ferrell, who is already a part-owner of MLS side Los Angeles FC, follows a number of celebrities to try their hand at football club ownership in recent years.
💰 The Leeds United investment group created by 49ers Enterprises, who completed a £170 million takeover last summer, is split into two sections, general partners and limited partners.
Will Ferrell falls into the category of limited partners, with celebrities who have invested at a lower level compared to the general partners, who are the source of the most serious funding.
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🇺🇸 New York City Council has approved a $780 million project to build New York City's first-ever football-specific stadium for NYCFC, with 25.000 seats, 2.500 affordable homes, a new public school, retail stores and a hotel 🏟️.
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The 12 European clubs that will compete at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup in the U.S. have been found 🌍🔒.
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Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen have created European football history for most games unbeaten (49) since 1945 🇩🇪🏆

Huge achievement from the Bundesliga club 👏
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The 🔟 most profitable European top-tier clubs 🌍.

🇪🇸 FC Barcelona reported an impressive €303.71 million profit after tax in the 2022/23 season, which helped reduce their huge debt to €552 million.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tottenham Hotspur’s board and its long-term adviser, Rothschild & Co., have begun talks with potential investors over a stake in the London football club.
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The squads with the most major trophies won amongst the Premier League ‘Big Six’ teams, since Jürgen Klopp was appointed as the new Liverpool manager.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The Women’s Super League (WSL), and Women’s Championship, have reportedly secured a 3-year deal with Barclays, who’ll pay a record £9m-a-season for the new title sponsorship rights, as they double their investment in the two leagues.
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Bayer Leverkusen spent a total of €32.2M on Grimaldo, Frimping, Wirtz and Boniface… they’re now worth €261M combined 🇩🇪🤯🤑

Great business from Bayer Leverkusen 🔴⚫️!

He joined as a teenager, he leaves as a club legend 🇫🇷👑

Kylian Mbappé has announced that he’ll leave PSG after this season, with a move to Real Madrid now in the cards 🔜🇪🇸.

According to Fabrizio Romano, Real Madrid plan to announce the signing after the UCL final ⏳.

The newly updated Golden Boy Football Benchmark Index has arrived 📊⚽️.

The 🔟 most valuable La Liga squads 🇪🇸💰.

🔝 Not only does Real Madrid top the La Liga table, they also top this list with a combined squad value of €1137M, which is €122M more than FC Barcelona in 2nd.

Real Madrid have now reached their 6️⃣th Champions League final in the last 14 years 🇪🇸🏆
Will they win the UCL this season?

The 🔟 most expensive club manager sackings, in terms of payoffs to the manager 🤑.

The list includes 5 former Chelsea managers, who were paid a total of £84.2M in payoffs following their sackings 😨.

The countries with the most players amongst the 100 most valuable in the World 🌍!

💰 The countries with the most players in the top 100 are as follows:

🇫🇷 France - 15 players
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England - 11 players
🇵🇹 Portugal - 11 players
🇧🇷 Brazil - 10 players

The top 🔟 most valuable players in the World according to the May 2024 update for Football Benchmark’s Player Valuation 🌍💰.

Jude Bellingham takes the spot as the MOST valuable player at €187.8 million 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🔝.

What do you think?👇

The man to beat in the Champions League 🏆👀.

Carlo Ancelotti has reached his 6️⃣th Champions League final as a manager 👏!

Will he win the UCL with Real Madrid this season?👇

🚫🖥️ The Premier League clubs are set to vote at their annual general meeting next month on a proposal to abolish the video assistant referee (VAR) system from the start of next season, according to The Athletic.

Should VAR be removed?

The 🔟 English clubs with the highest average stadium attendance in the 2022/23 season 🏟️👏.

Manchester United tops the list, with an average of 73.798 fans attending the games at Old Trafford, meaning on average 99.3% of the stadium was occupied on matchdays 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

💰 The clubs with the highest total operating expenses, amongst those who have published their 2022/23 financials so far.

🇪🇸 FC Barcelona tops the list with operations expenses of €990M, which is broken down like this:

👤 €639.3M in staff costs
🔍 €350.3M in other costs

🇪🇸 Pep Guardiola is the first manager ever to win 4️⃣ Premier League titles in a row, making history again.

His trophy cabinet now holds:

🏆 6 Premier League
🏆 4 Club World Cup
🏆 4 Carabao Cup
🏆 4 UEFA Super Cup
🏆 3 Champions League
🏆 3 La Liga
🏆 3 Supercopa
🏆 2 Copa del Rey
🏆 3 Bundesliga
🏆 2 DFB-Pokal
🏆 2 FA Cup
🏆 2 Community Shield
🏅 First manager ever to win Treble twice.
🏅 First manager ever to win four PL in a row.

Truly one of the greatest managers of all time 👑!

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