During this live session, Partner Simon Leaf was joined by Kieran Maguire (Academic, Broadcaster and Author of The Price of Football), and leading sports counsel and financial fair play expert, Nick de Marco QC (Barrister - Blackstone Chambers) where they discussed the key developments in the financial management of football clubs in the UK and around Europe including:
- the economic controls on Spanish clubs
- the introduction of salary caps
- how PSG could afford to buy Lionel Messi
- whether clubs can buy their way out of FFP.
We also received insight from football business experts Dr André Soldner, Gianluca Cambareri and Ángel Juárez.
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