Matt Slater

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Dan Sheldon |Matt Slater

The UK Government has declared it is prepared to take Roman Abramovich to court in a bid to extract the frozen £2.5billion generated from the sale of Chelsea Football Club in May 2022. The UK Government, then led by Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, forced Abramovich to sell the Premier League side after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Abramovich was described by the Government as a "pro-Kremlin oligarch," and his assets were sanctioned.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matt Slater

Faith loves her football club and has followed their ups and downs for as long as she can remember. But her love has been tested in recent seasons by their refusal to suspend a player who has been accused of sexual assault by four different women.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matt Slater

FIFA is still "far away" from resolving the row with Europe's domestic leagues and global players' union FIFPro over the international match calendar, according to the Premier League's director of international football relations Mathieu Moreuil. Last October, European Leagues, the body that represents leagues in 30 countries across the continent, teamed up with FIFPro to file a formal complaint against world football's governing body at the European Commission.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matt Slater

The Premier League's status as the richest domestic league in global football has been underlined by a new report into European club valuations, with nine of the top 20 coming from England. Now in its 10th year, the Football Clubs' Valuation report is published by the Budapest-based Football Benchmark Group and it ranks the top 32 clubs in Europe by enterprise value, which is the total value of the club's equity plus its net debt.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matt Slater

A decade after a police raid at a Swiss hotel plunged FIFA into crisis, a joint statement signed by academics, campaigners and fans groups has accused football's global governing body of being "more poorly governed" now than it was then. Seven senior officials were arrested at Zurich's Baur au Lac on the eve of a FIFA Congress on May 27, 2015, as part of a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into widespread corruption in the game.