
Dan Sheldon
Southampton FC Reporter at The Athletic UK
Football News Reporter at The Athletic UK
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5 days ago |
nytimes.com | Dan Sheldon |Matt Slater
Chelsea Women are the most valuable women's team in world football. They were sold for £200million, surpassing the $250m (£188.5m) Willow Bay and Bob Iger paid to buy National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) side Angel City in 2024. The only issue with the price Chelsea Women was sold for was that they were bought by their parent company in a move that helped the men's team comply with the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules (PSR) in 2023-24.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Dan Sheldon |Chris Weatherspoon
Behdad Eghbali and Jose E Feliciano's Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly have spent more than £1billion on players since buying Chelsea for £2.3bn in May 2022 - and have now borrowed over a £1bn through a revolving credit facility and a redeemable preferred equity agreement. When the club released their full accounts for the year ended June 30, 2024, on April 5, they received plenty of attention.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | John Hollinger |Adam Jahns |Dan Sheldon |Jacob Tanswell
As a proud Harvard Business School alum, I am partial to case studies as an instructive tool to understand dynamics in management, innovation, investment or attention. Each Friday, I'll select a few recent stories - case studies, really - published by The Athletic's team that might yield insights about what works (or what doesn't) inside of organizations, surrounding athletes and impacting their success (and our fandom). - Dan Shanoff, Managing Editor, Sports BusinessA case study in ...
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Dan Sheldon |Chris Weatherspoon
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Dan Sheldon |Jacob Tanswell
In less than a year, Southampton went from the highs of a champagne-filled Championship play-off win celebration to walking off the pitch on Sunday as the first Premier League team relegated with seven games still left to play.
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RT @TheAthleticFC: Chelsea's accounts are always essential reading - 2023-24s are no different: ■ £200m sale of women's team ■ Premier Lea…