Head of Commercial @fcbusiness, the business magazine for the Football Industry. @ManUtd & @dunstonutsfc supporter. [email protected]
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Corsie Means Business: The digital version of fcbusiness Issue 177 is available to read online ➡️ bit.ly/fcbusiness177
Scottish women's football legend Rachel Corsie has transferred from the pitch to the boardroom at @AberdeenFC. Here she tells us why she became a director and her role in growing the women's game in Scotland.
Also in this issue…
- In The Money: IFR Report
- On The Edge of Financial Disaster
- @LTTsports: Saving Football From Itself
- One Global Goal: Two Paths
- Women’s Football’s Growth Story
- @leytonorientfc’s Eastern Promise
- Groundcare: EU Rubber Crumb Ban
In Focus Featuring…
- @FulhamFC /Music
- Hill & Smith
- Leisure United
- @BTGUK_
- Swan Retail
- @yinzcam
- Red Rose Technologies
- @socceraid
- @Dallmeier_com
Plus much more…
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NEW
Bank of England daily stats have just confirmed my overnight story…
Pound Sterling reached its post Brexit referendum high last night, against a basket of global currencies of 86.53. Highest since the day of the Brexit referendum June 23rd 2016
NEW
Pound sterling at its post Brexit high…
(trade weighted, Bank of England basket of currencies)… rising against $ and esp €… but also notably other European currencies SFR, krona etc…
Relative stability, comparatively solid growth, expectations of rate rises, no drama Budget, EU rapprochement all mentioned as factors.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6ly…
£ fell sharply after referendum, and at various Brexit/ no deal/ red lines stress points, and Covid, and the mini budget
reached joint high yesterday of 86.4 (Jan 2005=100), went higher today, (ac to my BBC calculations to a new high since June 24th 2016, TBC by BoE tomorrow morning).
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The @EFL is seeking a new Chief Executive Officer to lead the organisation through the next stage of its development, with applications open until midnight on Friday 20 November 2026.
fcbusiness.co.uk/news/efl-se…
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The shambles of recruitment at certain clubs revealed in latest report by the always excellent @CIES_Football who have calculated the appreciation or decrease in player signings since they joined their clubs (excludes academy players).
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Announcing: The Women's Football Online Archive 2009 - 2026!
The Women's Football Online Archive includes:
⚽ 17+ years of women's football content
⚽ 100+ issues of She Kicks and Her Goal Magazine
⚽ 3200+ articles
⚽ 4000+ players
⚽ 1500+ clubs
Visitors to the archive can choose to browse via:
⚽ The digital library (105 issues accessible online)
⚽ The searchable archive (search by player, club, tournament, year or keyword)
Access to the women's football archive is currently available to visitors at a nominal charge.
However, Baltic Publications is seeking a title sponsor for the Women's Football Archive to enable us to provide access FOR FREE, to every women's football fan.
12-month sponsorship package includes:
Title Sponsorship: The [Sponsor's Name] Women's Football Archive ⚽Full page advertisement in 6 issues of @hergoalmagazine ⚽ Weekly posts to promote the [Sponsor's Name] Women's Football Archive on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and YouTube ⚽ branding for 12 months on the website.
It’s a chance to put your brand on the history of the women’s game, across all Her Goal Magazine channels and in front of women's football fans who go looking for it online.
Interested parties are invited to send me a message requesting further information.
#womensfootball #womensfootballarchive #womeninfootball #sponsorship
Kev Howland retweeted
Simon Heffer’s review of Liz Truss’s new book Bank Job in the Telegraph.
‘Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged. If you are seeking a Christmas present for someone you really don’t like, give them a copy.’
🎄🎅🎄🎁
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Michael Carrick will doubtless pay the price with his job for this deserved defeat to an excellent Bournemouth side and another lifeless display by his Manchester United team. Some of his selections and tactics have been questionable, United were again so open in the centre. But Carrick was not responsible for recruiting Youri Tielemans, who lacks physicality and mobility (and Aston Villa haven’t missed him) and Andrey Santos, a Chelsea reserve.
Carrick was not responsible for the board’s damaging failure to strengthen at centre-back and left-back. Carrick was not responsible for his main striker Benjamin Sesko being injured and the board’s failure to provide him with cover. Carrick was not responsible for the club he loves being in the grip of co-owners like the Glazers whose priorities are focused more on business than the sport. The direction from the top has been negligible, arguably negligent. No real leadership. No expertise.
Carrick may be out of his depth but many United fans sang his name during the painful demise to Bournemouth because they know he cares and they know the problems lie elsewhere. The Stretford End again sang in protest at the wretched Glazers.
Noticeable that there were few songs in support of Bruno Fernandes. He is supposed to be captain, rallying the players, Footballer of the Year, Player of the Year, not arm-waver of the year, underachieving and complaining. Yet Bruno will be at United longer than Carrick.
Carrick was praised for United finishing third last season and getting in the Champions League. But he will doubtless go partly for his own failings and mainly the failings of others. And United will be trapped in this doom loop again. And again until the core problems are addressed in the boardroom - and the Glazers sell up - and flaws in the recruitment department. #MUFC #MUNBOU
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I’m afraid it’s sacking territory for Carrick. Mad how United can go from destroying City 2-0 (should have been 6!) to this rabble but they have no plan, cohesion or fight. Injuries hurt but that’s no excuse. I’d go for Conte and watch the world burn.
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The Stretford End will welcome back the famous ‘ticker’ flag tomorrow.
It has been updated by The Red Army.
For @TheAthleticFC
nytimes.com/athletic/7674131…
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Whatever it is, we’re guilty. Expel the Glazers as punishment. It’ll be hard to move on, but somehow we’ll manage.
And strip us of every Premier League trophy we’ve won in the last decade.
Fair punishment.
£800m in, £800m out - Why Man City scandal shines light on Man Utd finances bbc.in/4dQChhq
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It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything.
Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report.
The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took.
It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems.
This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday.
📝 @jwhitey98: nyti.ms/4z5sgoL
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I don’t know what’s the bigger revelation
That Man City cheated and inflated their finances to the tune of £900 million
Or that Roberto Mancini’s real name is Roberto Sparkleglow 💖💅
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🔺REVEALED: Manchester City will claim sponsorship cash was paid by government — not owners
Club’s appeal also expected to challenge use of word ‘sham’ by independent commission and sheer amount of time it took them to deliver guilty verdict
✍️@Lawton_Times
thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC?
We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax.
There should be a criminal investigation.
Thread:
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Ok mate. But did you, like Mancini, also have a second and secret illicit contract when with City? Thanks in advance for your prompt response.
I want every single @ManCity fan to know I am here; more than ever. I am, always have been, always will, be behind my club, my owner, my chairman, Ferran, the players, staff, Enzo and you, our unique supporters.
Let me be clear: we will get through this together.
I love you all 🩵
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Man City’s Disguised Funding Scheme:
Sponsorship Fees:
Season - Total (Actually Paid)
2009/10 - £27.0m (£4.5m)
2010/11 - £41.25m (£12.75m)
2011/12 - £86.75m (£16.0m)
2012/13 - £121.75m (£16.0m)
2013/14 - £127.5m (£16.0m)
2014/15 - £123.2m (£16.0m)
2015/16 - £136.17 (£16.0m)
2016/17 - £140.59 (£11.0m)
2017/18 - £145.73m (£11.0m)
Total - £949.94m (£119.25m)
So sponsors were only liable for the £119.25m total figure, with the £830.69m additional shareholder funding disguised as ‘commercial partner revenue’.
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🚨 BREAKING: Manchester City have been found guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.
An independent Commission has found City guilty of all charges relating to serious financial breaches over a nine-season period between 2009/10 and 2017/18, as well as the majority of charges relating to the club’s failure to cooperate with the Premier League investigation.
The Commission found that Manchester City used “sham” commercial arrangements to artificially inflate revenues and reduce costs by more than £900m, filed misstated accounts and significantly breached both Premier League and UEFA spending limits.
Premier League chief executive Richard Masters described the decision as “the most significant in Premier League history”.
No punishment has yet been decided. A separate hearing will now determine the sanction, with possible penalties under Premier League rules including fines, points deductions and other sporting sanctions.
Manchester City have the right to appeal the findings.
#MCFC
premierleague.com/en/news/47…
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Football Leaks was launched exactly 11 years ago. On 29th September 2015, the first revelations emerged from a project that promised to expose, without filters, the corruption, fraud and other criminal practices that had been kept hidden behind the curtain. Back then, the game we all love was rotten. Third-party ownership was widespread, and even FIFA, football's international governing body, was facing a corruption scandal that sent shockwaves around the world.
Eleven years later, much of what was brought to light remains part of football's reality. Football changed, the money grew, the game became a global business, but beneath the glamour, the same questions about power, money and accountability remain.