How Do You Buy a Football Club? | Explained

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The PIF’s takeover of Newcastle is one in a long line of controversial buyouts across football. The Glazers at Manchester United, Sheikh Mansour at Manchester City, Stan Kroenke at Arsenal, and Roman Abramovich at Chelsea have all come in for criticism at different times, but the Newcastle deal has been especially divisive, with many fans and commentators questioning how the new Saudi owners passed the Premier League’s fit and proper persons test.
It’s one part of a long and complicated process required to buy a club, and with greater interest than ever in the financial workings of the game, we’re taking a look at how teams change hands - from how deals are put together, to the aims of different buyers, to the moral questions around ownership.
If you’ve ever wondered who can purchase a football team, start here.
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[@williamrstapleton]

Love this... now all I need is a couple billion pounds and a political agenda

[@mattipra]

I'm one step ahead. Only need the cash. Let's go Brandon.

[@RRfootballshorts]

🤣

[@heyah1447]

@@mattipra I want in too

[@tomasharrison7438]

Same

[@greatestanalyser2354]

😂

[@Bardockssgg007]

Thanks for this tutorial. Been thinking of buying a football club myself.

[@tomrogers7110]

I've done it. It's easy when you're a good-looking billionaire like me.

[@cfcmoi]

This is so helpful for my FM team

[@Confession_Of_A_Dangerous_Mind]

One club I'd purchase is Paris fc, PSG city rivals, they have a history as they were a joint club with psg plus they're in ligue 2, and fan attendance is good, buy loads of young talent and a good coach like ten hag

[@africancoast]

Why is being a joint club with PSG considered history

[@jackpayne4170]

@@africancoast same way there’s history with Everton and Liverpool originally being one club, there’s marketability in it being able to say it’s a derby, plus people realistically would get behind the club and support it since people always rate an underdog as opposed to PSG

[@Confession_Of_A_Dangerous_Mind]

@@jackpayne4170 Perfectly said.

[@walker63163]

So football manager lmao

[@Confession_Of_A_Dangerous_Mind]

@@africancoast They have a rivalry due to how they were separated and what happened after, with Psg being a big club now, that rivalry in this day and age would bring more publicity and marketing to Paris fc, with a few star signings along the line of coutinho, at least one in each group of position... Striker,defender,midfield...buy a FC eindhoven (2nd tier of dutch football) as a feeder club PSV rivals and repeat the concept but with under 20s like Salzburg and FC liefering, with the amount of young talent n France alone plus Netherlands n Europe generally, thats a good plan

[@dexterbridge1963]

As years go by we are also seeing owners looking to buy multiple clubs, like the city group who now have connections with multiple clubs over the world.

[@benunited3630]

like this is something new

[@GeliCarlosJ]

I could see more lower clubs adopt a Brentford approach to ensure financial health and since you're not outspending any of the big boys

[@louielouie3109]

The thing is the more other clubs with that approach the more it will cost for those previously underpriced players

[@greatestanalyser2354]

Naa cause it’s too risky for the clubs at the bottom

[@ugoeze7360]

How to buy a top division football club: 1. Have a stupid amount of money. 2. Follow step 1.

[@Real_SkyRipper]

step 2- bribe the FA to ignore al your past history

[@sahildhanrajani8936]

make more videos on this it was so amazing.

[@jamesbell6878]

When discussing player and team stats, where do you get your information from? A lot of the ones I've tried looking into are usually not kept up to date, not detailed enough , incorrect or a combination of the all 3

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[@lakersiul]

Thanks for tips. I'm going to buy one tomorrow.

[@melanchorly7618]

I'd like to own an amateur club someday. With a good Academy that'll develop potential future professionals

[@CesarSanchezfool]

Thanks. I’ll start saving

[@MassEffect1988]

The fit and proper owner test, worked really well for Pompey... 👍😳 Oh wait!

[@footballclubdao9390]

Football clubs should be ran democratically by the people who know and love the game, not by billionaires trying to wash their image. This video is great because it helps continue to highlight so many of the issues at hand with the current ownership system in sports overall.

[@CharlieCave03]

great content

[@even42]

watching this while debating with myself wether i can afford to buy a new phone or not

[@rezaesmaili10]

Very good

[@RossP17]

Top 10 clubs with the most potential for growth (outside the prem)

[@Christian_Bagger]

Let’s start crowdfunding boys!

[@bentarbuck6161]

great video, being seeing one of the men that almost ruined wigan athletic so far was not fun. god knows how we managed to find someone to buy us out of admin but thankfully we did

[@jayrajthakar6825]

Maybe you could do an explained on club ownership of clubs like Real Madid, Athletic Bilbao and Barcelona?

[@Peter_2504]

So basically they're owned by the fans, meaning members each have a small stake in the club so someone buying a club like real Madrid is impossible as it needs every member to agree to sell which will never happen. So each couple years, the club holds election to hire a president to lead the club like Perez laporta etc, they are voted in and run the club. Its a democracy, good way in running a club

[@contentBebop]

Is there any reason you can’t IPO a football club and sell shares to build a transfer/wages budget (assuming the club owned the stadium)?

[@misters6749]

9:25: Daniel Levy in Darth Sidious’s voice “You have become a RIVAL”!!!!

[@Aust1n316]

Sundays vibes idea which team this season is a hidden gem

[@Riyaz__]

I was wondering what i should do with the $100 my grandma gave me. Thank you

[@heyah1447]

I wish every prime league owner was like the Lecsciter City owners

[@themilkywayuniverse6962]

What about lower league clubs in other countries???

[@FozzQuaker]

1:02 Unless your Red Bull Liepzig and use 50+1 to your advantage and sell the fan memberships for absolute exorbitant prices

[@afaan9493]

Now let me make a billion dollars 😂

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[@Natanyahu]

⭐QUESTION : Why don't just PSG reduce the wages of the players and in compensation Al Khalaifi gifts the players a couple of super cars and then the players could sell those cars and earn money they lost through wages....so that the club could easily bring new expensive players without breaching FFP?🐒

[@fraserbright8836]

Because “gifts” that big would be classed as income so you’re back at the start. If you go for lower ticket items then it’s not worth the cost due to devaluation and time spent

[@ishanmisra7472]

next is west ham

[@LordZontar]

How to buy a football club. Well, Step 1, have lots and LOTS of money. It is generally agreed that without achieving this first step, it will not be possible to move on to Step 2.

[@allisonbrautigam1444]

"360 Billion behind them" let's not act like they're going to sink the whole nation's wealth into a football team. That's like saying the US national team has trillions behind it.

[@smontana9520]

People don’t seem to understand that… with that much money they could buy the city of Newcastle 😂

[@glenopoku9764]

By becoming very rich

[@mrpyro4217]

Or you can just be Everton since we basically own the reds NSNO

[@besmirmurati2382]

I can't even listen to 10 minutes info but I'll give my idea how to buy a club in 5 second explanation: You need money to buy it😅

[@craigmullen9046]

I wouldn't bother. Even if I had the money be like pouring your money down the drain

[@heyokaikaggen6288]

No you won't take a stand, the Rubicon has well and truly been crossed.

[@Redenzo29]

Just gonna get a small loan off a million quid to buy a club now

[@mr.september7292]

Get billions of money first....

[@Dany-wp5zu]

I think that Arabia is gonna buy all of European football

[@cryptobond0079]

COTI 🔼🚀🔼 DONT MISS IT 1USD COMING 🔼🚀🔼

[@caprious454]

Its good for the game like it was mullah mansours family do it and a russain

[@jason22spurs]

Watch your heads Newcastle fans :))

[@n1kurd]

👍👍

[@FootballClubGroup]

We need to stop letting billionaires run our clubs.

[@MIKE_YATES]

✔✔

[@badofcheese]

Quite a staggeringly poor piece by all accounts. Talking about the PIF takeover, the line was it’s “not about money”. Sheikh Mansour has spent a supposed £1.3bn into the club he bought for £210m and it is now valued at £4bn. He’s actually sold shares in the club totalling almost £1bn. That’s an incredible return by anyone’s standards. PIF is an investment fund and will be banking on something similar. The outlay may be larger and the value smaller but there’s some pretty big margins to play with in there. They’ll undoubtedly be expecting to invest in a valuable asset. Of course that’s without even factoring in the benefits of sports-washing and and the publicity the State will get around the world. It’s much harder to put a value on it but they’ll absolutely know that it has a value. Another casually covered and poorly considered point made is the tripe about clubs wanting reform towards the end of the video. They don’t. They want reform about as much as they want competition, the greedy six at least. When the PIF takeover almost went through and everyone was aware it was piracy, rather than human rights violations that prevented it, the door could have been slammed shut then. When it comes to potential competitors, the door is welded shut, never mind slammed (FFP, knee-jerk banning of related party sponsorship etc). The reason there was no appetite then and there’s no appetite now is that if you lock out the handful of people in the world who actually have the means to purchase and finance a Premier League club, you’re making your asset virtually worthless. How many people would be left in the world who could ever purchase or acquire a stake in the greedy six if they stop bad people being able to? It would be financial suicide. Very lazy and poorly thought out video.

[@vlaf3196]

If you are rich and you see this message, buy Iraklis FC.

[@serenity6443]

Sure bud! As if the people who can buy football clubs are searching youtube to get advice from amatuers earning money from YT ads on how to invest billions of their money. 🤪🤪🤪

[@caprious454]

Everyone a humans rights expert now cuz its newcastle...

[@QazwerDave]

Seeing so many Neqcaatle fans celebrating Saudi Arabia is just disgusting !!