Meet the top lawyer challenging Gianni Infantino’s Fifa power play August 3, 2026 Uefa has enlisted a leading US white-collar expert as legal tensions escalate over Gianni Infantino’s unsuccessful Fifa World Cup sell-off. US legal giant Dechert’s former Chair, Andrew Levander, has been nabbed by the European body, which informed Zurich-headquartered Fifa his client was “actively considering legal action, arbitration, and/or regulatory complaints”. Fifa has promised that raising [...]
Trump regime distances itself from Infantino as under-fire Fifa boss faces calls to quit August 3, 2026 The Trump administration has denied answering the call of Gianni Infantino as the under-fire Fifa boss scrambles to save his job. Infantino is facing a possible vote of no confidence from Fifa members following last week’s fierce backlash to his plan to sell stakes in a new subsidiary that would hold the commercial rights to [...]
Liverpool FC eye US retail empire to steal march on Premier League rivals August 3, 2026 Liverpool FC are in talks to become the first Premier League football team to open a chain physical retail stores in the United States. The 20-time English champions already have 26 bricks-and-mortar stores across the world, including in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Africa, and want to grow to 40 by 2030. The move [...]
FA turns up heat on Infantino by pulling support for embattled Fifa president August 3, 2026 The Football Association has heaped further pressure on embattled Fifa president Gianni Infantino by formally withdrawing its support for his re-election. The FA was one of around 200 of Fifa’s members which agreed to back his bid for a third term but has changed its mind in light of Infantino’s plan to sell off stakes [...]
Staveley planning ‘big property play’ as she closes in on West Ham stake August 3, 2026 Amanda Staveley says she is planning a “big property play” in English football as the former Newcastle United closes in on a deal to buy a stake in West Ham United. Staveley, her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi, and others have agreed to buy a 25.1 per cent stake in the Hammers, who were relegated to the [...]
Manchester United’s new stadium is a test of sports finance – but markets have a solution August 1, 2026 Manchester United’s proposed 100,000-seat stadium represents one of the largest sports infrastructure projects currently under consideration in Europe. The development is intended to become the centrepiece of a wider regeneration of the Old Trafford area, combining a new sporting venue with commercial, residential and entertainment uses. For investors, however, the defining question will be less [...]
Fifa won’t fix itself – scrap it now and set up a World FA, led by Uefa and South America July 31, 2026 Football’s world governing body Fifa is beyond reform; a better idea is to abolish it and replace it with a new organisation, argues ethics expert Thomas Beschorner. The games are over, but the aftertaste remains. As wonderful as the matches on the pitch were, Fifa, as organiser of this summer’s World Cup, has once again [...]
Chelsea fined £10m, avoid points penalty and receive Mykhailo Mudryk boost July 31, 2026 Chelsea have been fined a further £10m by the Football Association but avoided a points deduction after admitting more than 70 charges of breaking financial rules. The breaches took place under the previous ownership of Roman Abramovich and related to secret payments to agents, including in the signings of Eden Hazard, Willian and Samuel Eto’o. [...]
Burnham says Infantino ‘wrong man’ to lead Fifa as Brits back World Cup boycott plans July 31, 2026 Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said Gianni Infantino is the “wrong man” to lead Fifa as Brits back Uefa plans to boycott the next World Cup. The football-loving Prime Minister told reporters in Sheffield on Friday that Fifa’s plans to sell of stakes in the World Cup to private investors, spearheaded by Infantino, “was an [...]
Fifa crisis: Uefa exec Nasser Al-Khelaifi ‘not interested’ in ousting Infantino July 31, 2026 Nasser Al-Khelaifi, the Paris Saint-Germain president and high-ranking Uefa executive, has no interest in leading a Fifa coup against Gianni Infantino, according to his camp. Infantino’s future as Fifa president has been plunged into doubt by the civil war triggered by plans to sell off stakes in a new commercial subsidiary to private investors, including [...]