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...Plus we look at moves afoot to reinvent Paris Saint-Germain as a truly global “brand” following its recent investment deal with US fund Arctos....
...He showed them to his friend Michael Collins, who was then the picture editor of The Telegraph Magazine, and they helped Billingham publish them as a book....
...Highlights The Qatari owners of Paris Saint-Germain agreed to sell a minority stake to US investment firm Arctos Partners, which has accumulated passive positions in teams across sport....
...Corinthians and reigning title-holders Palmeiras can only dream of the kind of international brand recognition built up over years by European counterparts such as Barcelona, Manchester United and Paris Saint-Germain...
...This is especially true of his new Paris outpost, a 100sq m studio/pied-à-terre in Saint Germain-des-Prés....
...Kylian Mbappé, one of the world’s most marketable football stars, has told the Qatar-owned French champions Paris Saint-Germain that he wants to leave the club in the summer....
...Michael Winum, Fabrice Scott and Maxime de Toledo star....
...Michael Klein, a veteran dealmaker with links to Middle East investors, is forming an investment bank with Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency....
...Kylian Mbappé, the biggest star in French football, has told Paris Saint-Germain that he wants to leave the Ligue 1 champions at the end of the season....
...The last things I bought and loved were two artworks by Michael Schouflikir, compositions made of recycled pieces of wood and metal, built on vintage frames....
...“Soccer should be our number one business,” Michael Rubin, the billionaire chief executive of the sports retailer told the Financial Times. “We’re playing catchup.”...
...Saudi football club Al Hilal approached Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain with a €300mn bid to buy out Kylian Mbappé....
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...Transfer Market Five months after buying Olympique Lyonnais, John Textor has taken on the day-to-day running of the club, replacing Jean-Michael Aulas, Lyon’s long-time president....
...Michael Jordan is finalising the sale of his majority stake in the Charlotte Hornets basketball team to hedge fund billionaire Gabe Plotkin and private equity titan Rick Schnall....
...On Saturday night, Lionel Messi will play surely his last match for Paris Saint-Germain, against little Clermont. He has been looking as if he can’t wait to finish....
...Helpfully, the duo played together for years at Paris Saint-Germain....
...Both play for Qatari-owned Paris Saint-Germain....
...From £105, jeakeshouse.com BS Hôtel de l’Abbaye, Paris This Saint-Germain-des-Prés stalwart is on the larger side of homely – 43 rooms and counting – but the quiet setting makes up for it....
...Yet Qatar is already enmeshed with the French capital and its top football team, Paris Saint-Germain, which has been owned by the Qatari state for more than a decade....
...Michael Eisner, former chief executive of Disney, owns Portsmouth in the third tier of English football....
...Ronaldo’s great rival, Lionel Messi of Paris Saint-Germain and Argentina, became a global brand ambassador for crypto fan token company Socios in March....
...“All the capital raises are always for M&A, we don’t raise capital for our operations,” Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin told the Financial Times. “We’ll continue to be acquisitive.”...
...The vegetable seed salesman who built a $27bn sports empire Like many entrepreneurs, Michael Rubin started out young, selling vegetable seeds when he was just eight and putting $2,500 of bar mitzvah money...
...Their Eagle Football Holdings group will have to invest wisely to compete with Paris Saint-Germain, owned by Qatar Sports Investments, a government-backed vehicle....
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