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...playing career ended, he worried that studying for his coaching badges might “waste five years of my life”, given that the white men running clubs were reluctant to hire even famous black ex-players such as John...
...And certain club owners — notably Americans such as John Henry at Liverpool and the Glazer family at Manchester United — were always cold profit-maximisers....
...“The economic purpose of an option is a form of insurance,” said Stefan Szymanski, a sports industry academic at the University of Michigan....
...Jim Ratcliffe owns 60 per cent of the company, the remainder shared between co-founders Andy Currie and John Reece....
...When Stefan Szymanski and I published the first edition of our book, Soccernomics in 2009 we assumed that this dominance would decline, that other regions would catch up, but it hasn't happened....
...The FT’s Murad Ahmed and John Burn-Murdoch have the full story here....
...Analysts, such as Stefan Szymanski, a sports industry academic at the University of Michigan, have found the best predictor of a team’s league placing is how much it spends on players....
...Konrad Szymanski — Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline should not be built John Engle — The Tesla Semi is dead Robin Mills — Iran oil and sanctions Dan Reicher — The Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee...
...For instance, before the England vs Germany friendly in November last year, England’s John Stones used Facebook’s “Live With” platform to connect with his Manchester City teammate Leroy Sané in Germany’s...
...Still, Professor Szymanski, whose work influenced Mr Soriano, doubts the business model....
...Analysts such as Stefan Szymanski, a sports industry academic at the University of Michigan, say that the best predictor of a team’s league placing is its wages bill....
...Analysts of the game, such as Stefan Szymanski, a sports industry academic at the University of Michigan, says the best predictor of a team’s league placing is its wage bill....
...But sober-minded analysts of the game, such as Stefan Szymanski, author of Money and Football: A Soccernomics Guide, say that the best predictor of a team’s league placing is its wage bill....
...One of the most influential game theorists, John Nash, the Nobel Prize-winning mathematician, was the subject of the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind....
...“The basic relationship is that talent is something you can buy in a market fairly reliably,” Mr Szymanski said....
...Additional reporting by John Burn-Murdoch....
...Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski are co-authors of ‘Soccernomics’...
...As the authors of Soccernomics, FT columnist Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski, often point out, mediocre performance in international football is what you would predict for England from its size and per...
...The FT’s Simon Kuper co-wrote the book Soccernomics with professor Stefan Szymanski, of the University of Michigan, and in it explored Szymanski’s work analysing the relationship between clubs’ wage spend...
...john.gapper@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this column: An ode to Blatter / From Mr Nick Lanyon...
...There are now six US majority owners of Premier League clubs, including John Henry at Liverpool and Stan Kroenke at Arsenal. They seek to earn money from their clubs rather than winning at all costs....
...“The photograph was now the size of half a double bed,” writes John Carlin in White Angels, his book on Pérez’s Madrid....
...However, Stefan Szymanski, sports economist at the University of Michigan, says not one credible academic study backs this up....
...Yet the other half of Szymanski’s elite are managers scarcely known to most fans: titans of the lower divisions like Paul Sturrock, Steve Parkin, Ronnie Moore and John Beck....
...It was in this climate that Evra reported Suárez’s abuse, and that the Queens Park Rangers player Anton Ferdinand reported alleged abuse from Chelsea’s John Terry....
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