7 h. ago Cathie Wood and UAE in $300mn crypto bet on football business Brera

Owner of stakes in teams from Italy to Mongolia will begin stockpiling solana tokens

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44 h. ago Hugo Viana makes Man City goalkeeper claim after £53m transfers

Manchester City signed three new goalkeepers this summer and director of football Hugo Viana has opened up on that transfer business.

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6 d. ago Cathie Wood’s flagship ARK fund balloons by $3.5bn ahead of Klarna IPO

Traders say rush to create new ETF shares echoes unusual trading pattern around last month’s listing of Bullish

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9 d. ago Wales football hero makes £15m fortune in one deal after starting completely new life

Former Wales forward Hal Robson-Kanu has swapped his football career for the business world and recently secured a huge eight-figure investment in his company

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2 w. ago Mallorca president Andy Kohlberg: ‘We’ve made it about the club belonging to the island’

Mallorca’s owner talks America, the appeal of La Liga’s ‘unique market’ and Saturday’s visit to the Bernabéu“Most of the other owners and presidents I talk to say it’s the worst two hours of the week,” Andy Kohlberg says. And is it? “Probably, yeah.” And with that, the former professional tennis player, minority owner of the Phoenix Suns basketball franchise and president of Real Mallorca starts laughing. On Saturday, the New York born 66-year-old travels to see his football team at the Santiago Bernabéu, where they last won in 2009, since when they have been down to the third tier and back, and even if they do secure a first victory there in his decade at the club he won’t be able to celebrate.It’s the little differences. “It’s certainly unusual for Americans: I tell them I have lunch with the Madrid president and they can’t wrap their heads around it,” Kohlberg says, sitting under the Son Moix stand, rain falling on the pitch outside. “In the NBA you might say hello, shake hands, ...

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3 w. ago Football Daily | Cole Palmer v French vineyard is football’s latest random copyright battle

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Victoria Beckham taking on and losing against Peterborough United in a battle over the nickname “Posh”. Cristiano Ronaldo trademarking the combination of his initials and shirt number, “CR7”, to boost his brand. Kylian Mbappé nabbing the rights to his iconic crossed-arms goal celebration when it almost certainly would have been far more lucrative to seize ownership of that ubiquitously annoying “cry more” gif so beloved of dullards on several Social Media Disgraces. In a football business already swamped with cash and opportunists eager to get their mitts on as much of it as they can, it ought to come as no surprise that the very top players, clubs and Peterborough try to maximise their income by making their personal “brands” off limits to potential counterfeiters, bootleggers and other ne’er-do-wells.I don’t want any players who don’t want to come to the club. If they don’t want to come here and wear this fantastic badge, we don’t...

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