Adam Williams
@Adam___Williams
Head of Football Finance and Governance Content at GRV Media | Trying to make sense of the business of football for fans | [email protected]
🧵 The Crystal Palace sage is the tip of the iceberg. By my count, 16 Premier League clubs are part of some sort of multi-club network Spurs, Wolves, Burnley, Fulham - if you don't see your club's name, your team has ties to another somewhere else in the world Here are all 16🔽
Worth looking at Roma think they went 2 years without signings
Everton fans - very interesting thread on intra-TFG player transfers, how the owners might meet cash needs (not PSR), and potential complications with further diluting the club's 2k minority shareholders.
Thank you. I’d start any analysis of Everton’s finances with the caveat that we need to be cautious as there’s so many areas where we have incomplete info. But I would think that any spending this summer needs new funding. Current operations are unlikely to generate funds.
Joint statement on Gaza from @AFP, @AP, @BBCWorld and @Reuters
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool, PSR & a myth about PL spending rules debunked Wirtz, Frimpong, Kerkez, Ekitike... and Isak? FSG made key financial call last September that means LFC could potentially spend ∼£400m this summer yet still breeze through PSR. 🤑 tbrfootball.com/fsg-have-secur…
RedBird Capital (Liverpool part-owners via FSG) set for The Telegraph takeover. They fended off competition from Chelsea owner Todd Boehly's Eldridge Industries. Man City’s Sheikh Mansour retains 15% of the newspaper after HoL vote... Premier League² theguardian.com/media/2025/jul…
The (deep) underlying point here is none of this would even be a discussion if multi-club ownership was outlawed and clubs were properly treated as sporting and community institutions, rather than commodities to be traded
For @EFLAnalysis_ , some more detail on Ipswich Town owners considering investment at Championship-record £325-375m valuation. As first reported by the excellent @JoinFootBiz eflanalysis.com/news/ipswich-t…
A piece with the very talented @Adam___Williams taking an in-depth look at how much money #AFC will have left to spend after deal for Viktor Gyokeres ⤵️ tbrfootball.com/how-much-cash-…
Football Governance Bill passed Opponents to the bill were 86 Conservative 3 Reform 1 Labour 6 Unionist 2 Indeoendent (Lowe and Easton)
Shared by former #rovers women’s player Rachel Dugdale on instagram. If anyone can help please reach out to her directly. One day I won’t have to spend my time asking why this club can’t treat these women at the bare minimum decently, with compassion and common sense.
Must admit, I’m at least pleased to see dynamic pricing working in a downwards direction for once 😂
Now $11.15 (£8.17) to watch Chelsea V Palmeiras.
The threat of being booted out of Europe is the key thing here, imo. If UEFA issue financial penalties only, FFP at European level would basically just function like a Major League Baseball-style luxury tax. Boehly's Dodgers paid $100m luxury tax last year, as it happens...
Will be very challenging for Chelsea to avoid a ban without substantial changes to it's football earnings situation. CWC may now be critical as will a replacement FOS sponsor. "The Club will be in breach of the Settlement Agreement in the following cases: • If the Club…
Now that he can officially be named and talked about I do hope that there are more questions asked to the club about how they handled the situation with Thomas Partey. This cannot be just swept under the rug and forgotten about now that his contract as expired, especially with…
Right after his Arsenal contract expired. What are the chances of that?! What a coincidence!
BREAKING: Thomas Partey, the former Arsenal midfielder, charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault telegraph.co.uk/football/2025/…
A beautiful tribute from Andy Robertson 💔
Is it even possible for Man Utd to be consistently profitable? Sir Jim's investment brokers say yes, despite: ♦️£500m lost since '99 treble ♦️PSR-immune inflation ♦️TV boom over? ♦️Growth swallowed by costs 🔎📊 for @UnitedInFocus w/ @KieranMaguire unitedinfocus.com/news/ineos-tak…
Please share this as far and wide as possible. Jason Whittingham has a simple choice to make today: do the right thing, or risk the destruction of people’s livelihoods, the truly wonderful football club that we all love, and 105 years of proud history.
The Board of Directors of Morecambe Football Club wish to make the following statement. #UTS 🦐
John Textor's cosy relationship with Nottingham Forest continues... I make that eight moves between Textor-owned clubs and Forest.
Understand Nottingham Forest have completed the signing of Brazilian striker Igor Jesus from Botafogo.