Samuel T. Posin

March 27, 2024

Manchester United PLC

‘It’s by design, not by luck’: Man Utd’s new CEO on the strategy behind his former club City’s treble win

...“I don’t see it taking over but I do see it as becoming more important.”...

January 28, 2024

FT Live

Business of Football Summit

The global gathering of leaders in football and finance

Sport

Formula E puts new grid spot up for sale as it tests electric racing demand

...“When it’s gone, it’s gone, we can’t have a 13th team on the grid,” Dodds said. “We can’t sell it twice.”...

April 5, 2024

News in-depthParis Olympics

Paris prize money opens Olympic divide

...“People who win gold medals in track and field don’t need extra money....

April 12, 2024

Paris Olympics

Athletics federation to pay gold medal winners $50,000 at Olympics

...“Whether it’s a good idea or not . . . they can’t all of a sudden before Paris pull a rabbit out of the hat,” Payne told the Financial Times, adding that the move “will put other federations under pressure...

April 10, 2024

Football

‘The growth potential is incredible’: Change at the top for women’s football

...“If it was horrible football, I wouldn’t be sitting here. It’s not. It’s amazing,” she added. Investors have also started to show an interest....

April 13, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

ReviewBusiness books

Business books: what to read this month

...Samuel Agini ‘Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI’, by Ethan Mollick If you are interested in how to make the most of the transformative potential of artificial intelligence — and Ethan Mollick...

April 11, 2024

F1

Red Bull Formula One boss Christian Horner cleared by barrister-led probe

...“My job is to push as hard as I can for the best interests of this team [and] if I wasn’t doing that I wouldn’t be doing my job properly,” Horner once told the Financial Times of his approach....

February 28, 2024

The Big Read

Formula One’s growing pains

...“[Previously] when the circus came to town, [F1] didn’t know who attended, didn’t know why they attended, didn’t know what their real preferences were and what they wanted,” he says....

March 1, 2024

Christian Horner

Red Bull suspends female staffer at centre of Christian Horner claims

...“I can’t comment on anything that’s confidential between an employee and the company,” Horner said in a press conference on Thursday....

March 7, 2024

Six films to watch this week

The Book of Clarence — raucous stoner comedy comes to biblical Jerusalem

...But more pious yet is the place Samuel finds for Jesus himself, played by Nicholas Pinnock as nothing if not the real thing. The movie doesn’t just vouch for miracles....

April 18, 2024

777 Partners

Everton FC bidder 777’s funding structure starts to unravel

...He added: “We don’t agree with their position.”...

March 12, 2024

Football

European football needs innovation and drama, says Real Madrid and FC Barcelona investor

...Clubs that may have had global recognition historically could become “melting ice cubes because they don’t do the right things from a business and fan perspective and they don’t invest in the experience”...

February 25, 2024

Football

Ratcliffe wants Man Utd to vie for Premier League title in three years

...“I don’t think I’ll ever lose money,” Ratcliffe said when asked about the valuation. “I don’t believe it’s going to devalue. I don’t believe I’ve been financially stupid.”...

February 21, 2024

Simon Samuels

Will this year bring investor activism to Europe’s banks?

...Yet while the banks have honoured their promises, the equity market hasn’t delivered on its side of the bargain....

January 7, 2024

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Summit

Guiding business in a new global age

Premier League

Premier League transfer spending tumbles as financial rules start to bite

...“We haven’t really seen any significant transfers that make a waterfall effect across the market,” said Calum Ross, an analyst at Deloitte’s Sports Business Group....

February 2, 2024

News in-depthFootball

‘A PR nightmare’: Lionel Messi’s Hong Kong no-show hits Inter Miami brand

...We won’t know until he’s gone.”...

February 9, 2024

Liverpool Football Club

Jürgen Klopp calls time on Liverpool FC saying he has ‘run out of energy’

...“The one thing I didn’t know and I underestimated was the fact that my energy source is not endless,” he said. “I know that I cannot do the job again and again and again and again.”...

January 26, 2024

Travel & leisure industry

The 26-year-old owner of Sunderland football club betting on youth

...“Football isn’t new to me,” he added, “it isn’t something where my passion came overnight.” He took control of Sunderland in 2021, aged just 23, and now owns a 64 per cent stake....

February 18, 2024

The Big Read

The European football clubs turning stadiums into cash cows

...“We can’t treat football fans as a captive audience. They do have choice....

January 7, 2024

ReviewFilm

Dance First film review — chapters in the life of Samuel Beckett

...It would be strange for a film about Samuel Beckett to be a triumph; maybe even treachery. Failure and futility were his lifeblood....

November 2, 2023

Special ReportNorth America Innovative Lawyers

Legal eagles punt ‘trophy assets’

...“I realised, wow, this is not going to be the highest valuation forever — something’s happening here,” says Eisler, “I don’t think this record is going to hold.”...

December 5, 2023

News in-depthSport

World sport rattled by rulings that open route to goal for new entrants

...“Don’t forget, this is a 70-year monopoly. Those things don’t get undone overnight.” Additional reporting by Javier Espinoza in Brussels...

December 22, 2023

Special ReportThe Business of Formula One

F1 team valuations continue to rise

...“There is economic and financial rationale for sponsors, investors and team owners because, otherwise, people wouldn’t do that just for fun.”...

November 24, 2023

News in-depthManchester United PLC

Ratcliffe’s tough experience at Nice offers lessons for Manchester United

...“Jim and Dave know what they don’t know.”...

December 27, 2023

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