The Billionaires Club
The Unstoppable Rise of Football’s Super-rich Owners WINNER FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR, SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2018
$47.49
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2018
Summary
A compelling examination of football club ownership in the era of the super-rich
Once upon a time, football was run by modest local businessmen. Today, it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game?
While almost cloaked in secrecy, the billionaire owner ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472923127 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147292312X |
| Author: | James Montague |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Sport |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2018 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
The business-minded and the football crazy… will find [this book] hard to resist * Sunday Times *The Billionaires Club seeks to understand why the global super-rich suddenly became interested in football, and what the consequences of this trend have been * Irish Times *A fascinating read for the many football fans interested in the developments off pitch * Financial Times *Both surprising and insightful … The book does a fine job of examining just why rich men choose to plough oodles of money into football * FourFourTwo *Montague… proves himself adept here at rustling up enlightening stories on the game from relatively far-flung outposts and placing them in the context of a broader global picture * When Saturday Comes *
About The Author
James Montague
James Montague is an award-winning journalist who writes about football, culture and politics across the globe. He has reported from over 65 countries for the New York Times, World Soccer and the Bleacher Report, amongst others. He also features regularly on the BBC World Service’s World Football podcast. His previous books are When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone and Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football’s Outsiders, which won Football Book of the Year at the 2015 British Sports Book of the Year Awards. Sports Illustrated described him as ‘the Indiana Jones of soccer writing’.
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