Also this week
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Live cases & developing stories
Decision published
Premier League v Manchester City
The Independent Commission’s Core Decision, read in full, with its consequences for clubs, the league and the regulator.
Case hub · 8-part case file
Developing
The sale of Everton
The Friedkin Group’s sale process: what a buyer would inherit, and what the accounts show.
Club hub · Everton
State of the Game
The Independent Football Regulator
The regulator’s statutory duties, licensing and owners’ tests, and its first State of the Game report.
Regulator hub · IFR
Browse by topic
The IFR, Football Governance Act, PSR, squad-cost ratios, UEFA and FIFA rules
Forensic readings of annual reports, group structures and cash flow
Takeovers, valuations, multi-club and sovereign ownership
Credit, Lending & Systemic Risk
Private credit, factoring, inter-club debt and contagion
Commissions, appeals, compensation claims, CJEU and CAS
Finance, ownership, the stadium and Talking the Blues
Cricket governance, stroke survivorship and policy
From the library
Hubs
Ten years of accounts, owners, the stadium and the Premier League cases.
Ownership, lenders, losses and sanctions.
The 115 charges, the Core Decision and its consequences.
Statutory duties, licensing and the owners’ test.
Podcasts
Everton, on and off the pitch, with Andy and George Costigan.
Longer conversations on football finance and governance.
Life after stroke, from lived experience.