“Imagine there were no transfer fees, it isn’t hard to do, only free transfers, and a couple of loans too” It may not have made John Lennon’s final draft but as an existential questions for football clubs go it is an important one. The 21/22 summer transfer market gave us Read more…
Multi-club ownership groups enjoy a number of advantages over single club structures. Some examples include: Recruiting high potential players earlier in their careers rather than having to wait for them to reach the club’s level. The ability to control the development of these players, and capture value increases, through intra-network Read more…
In this article Olivier Wicki examines the Red Bull Network and looks at what lessons can be applied to other groups of clubs. Learning the lessons from the Red Bull Football Network Multi-club ownership has emerged as one of the most interesting and promising business models in the football industry. Read more…
A quote I’ve recently taken to repeating at every opportunity is from legendary college football coach Bear Bryant: “Have a plan, follow the plan, you’ll be surprised at how successful you’ll be. Most people don’t have a plan, that is why it is easy to beat most folks” But what Read more…
All long-term team performance graphs are produced on FootStats Summary: Design – What do you want your club to look like in 5 years time? Align – get the people and processes in place you need to reach that point. Build – building is disruptive and messy but necessary to Read more…
What do the people in a football analytics company actually do all day? The truth is no two weeks are exactly the same, and transfer windows are as manic as everyone says. The day starts with reading the messages that have come in overnight. Football runs on WhatsApp, and Read more…
Why do some clubs have a much higher success rate at transfers compared to their competitors? At MRKT Insights we are big believers in the concept of current success being a reflection of past decisions. And no decisions made by a football club are more important than signing players. Whatever Read more…
Note for existing Premier League billionaire club owners: Don’t spend money on players…not until you have read this article at least. Imagine you own a Premier League team and have £100m you want to spend to make that team more competitive. How would you spend the money? What would you Read more…
Despite a global pandemic, with spectators locked out of stadiums for the foreseeable future, there is still a lot of interest in club football from investors. There are of course many different types of football club owners; fans of the club fulfilling a childhood dream, very rich people having fun Read more…
Accurately assigning credit is incredibly difficult. In football we may look at a team of eleven players who have just won a game by one goal to nil and try to break down what their individual contributions were. The headlines will always be about the goal scorer. He scored the Read more…
