Matt Slater
Senior Football News Reporter at The Athletic
Senior football news reporter @TheAthleticFC . Just links here now - will occasionally chat at @mjslater.bsky.social.
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3 days ago |
nytimes.com | David Ornstein |Matt Slater
Brentford are in advanced talks with UK-based South African businessman Gary Lubner and English filmmaker Matthew Vaughn about a minority investment in the Premier League club. Lubner is the former chief executive of Belron, the parent company of windscreen repair firm Autoglass, and founder of children’s charity This Day. The 66-year-old came to London to study in the mid-1980s and has become a major donor to the Labour Party, having given them almost £9million in recent years.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Slater
BeIN Sports has extended its deal for the Premier League’s live TV rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), boosting the league’s overseas media income and stalling Saudi Arabian hopes of creating a domestic rival to the Qatari broadcaster. The new three-year deal runs from next season through until the end of 2027-28 and is worth approximately £550million ($742.3m), a 10 per cent uplift on the previous three-year cycle.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Philip Buckingham |Matt Slater |Dan Sheldon |Jacob Tanswell
Ruben Selles is a strong contender to take over at Sheffield United with Chris Wilder expected to leave the club. Wilder guided United to the verge of promotion before the play-off final defeat to Sunderland in May, which they led 1-0 until the 76th minute but lost 2-1 following Tom Watson’s goal in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
Potential Sheffield Wednesday owner calls for 55,000 stadium and says club 'way bigger than Wrexham'
1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matt Slater
Sheffield Wednesday should have a 55,000-capacity stadium, one of England's best academies and be "way bigger than Wrexham", according to the co-leader of a North American group trying to buy the crisis-hit Championship club. The four-time title winners are the second-oldest professional club in English football, and were founding members of the Premier League in 1992, but they dropped out of the top flight in 2000 and have spent the 25 years since yo-yoing between the second and third tiers.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Guillermo Rai |Matt Slater
Burnley's owners are in talks over buying a stake in Spanish top flight club Espanyol. If a deal can be reached, Espanyol would be the second club linked to ALK Capital, the investment vehicle run by Burnley's owner Alan Pace. A source with knowledge of the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships, confirmed that ALK had been exploring investment opportunities at clubs in Europe for some time.
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Not a typo, folks, the EFL really did sign this off as Morecambe passed to the other place. Like Mastermind, the EFL had started so it finished, which is good as it meant these guys didn't have to start again with NL. Good luck to all involved. Shrimps v Shrimpers next season.
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗖𝗹𝘂𝗯 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗲𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗢𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗯 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝘀. @Panjabwarriors is delighted to announce that it has received clearance from the English Football League (EFL) to proceed with the acquisition of https://t.co/wFJqs4OaWt
RT @TheAthleticFC: Tottenham won the Europa League on May 21. Four days later they finished 17th in the Premier League. Today they sacked…
A Lazarus-like financial recovery for Man Utd, a company forced to cull staff & perks a few months ago or die. It’s almost like Sir Jim was forced to justify something he had done dozens of times before at companies nobody cares about & just over-egged it a bit. https://t.co/0WQNL6JirQ
