Football Finance: Foreign ownership – for better or for worse?

TheBusinessDesk.com, in association with leading law firm Hammonds, looks at the issue of foreign ownership of football clubs.

THE days of football clubs being the sole domain of the local businessman made-good, are numbered.

The likes of Louis Edwards, a Cheshire butcher, or the Moores family, who made a fortune from the football pools business, have been replaced at Manchester United and Liverpool, by overseas owners more interested in asset values and maximising global brand potential than being feted on the ter... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...

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