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Matt Slater

Guildford

Senior Football News Reporter at The Athletic

Senior football news reporter @TheAthleticFC

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  • Are Chelsea Women really worth £200million?

    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.

  • Ligue 1 faces financial crisis as talks between clubs and DAZN over TV deal break down

    1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matt Slater

    French football is facing a financial crisis after peace talks between its clubs and DAZN, their domestic media partner, broke down on Tuesday. The UK-based streamer is only one year into the four-year deal it agreed with the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) in 2024 but has been trying to renegotiate the terms of that agreement for the last four months.

  • Brentford owner Matthew Benham close to agreeing deal to buy Spanish third-tier side Merida AD

    1 week ago | nytimes.com | Matt Slater

    Brentford owner Matthew Benham is close to agreeing a deal to buy Spanish third-tier side Merida AD. Based in western central Spain, near the Portuguese border, Merida AD are currently fifth in the Primera Federacion's group 2 with six games to play, which would qualify them for the playoffs for a spot in LaLiga's Segunda Division.

  • World Cup expansion proposal to 64 teams a 'bad idea'

    3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Matt Slater

    UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has dismissed a proposal to expand the 2030 World Cup to 64 teams as a "bad idea", saying it would damage both the tournament itself and Europe's qualifying competition. The topic of World Cup expansion has been back on the agenda ever since Uruguayan football official Ignacio Alonso surprisingly proposed it at a FIFA Council meeting last month.

  • UK aiming to include new Manchester United stadium in 2035 Women’s World Cup bid

    3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Matt Slater

    English Football Association chief executive Mark Bullingham wants to include Manchester United’s proposed new stadium in the United Kingdom’s bid for the 2035 Women’s World Cup. The joint Home Nations bid was confirmed as the sole candidate for the tournament by FIFA chief Gianni Infantino at UEFA’s Congress in Belgrade on Thursday.

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Matt Slater @mjshrimper
10 Apr 25

RT @CWeatherspoon_: Fairly big story here: Bournemouth would have breached Premier League PSR had they not been allowed to include a £71m l…

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Matt Slater @mjshrimper
10 Apr 25

RT @Seb_Anderssen: Both the accounts for Blueco 22 Properties Ltd (B22P) and The Hotels at Chelsea Ltd (H@C) have been published. H@C is ow…

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Matt Slater @mjshrimper
8 Apr 25

RT @TheAthleticFC: 🚜 A fleeting sense of hope in Ipswich 🔴 Acceptance and communion among Southampton's players and fans 🦊 Anger and recrim…