Money and football : why Chievo Verona, Unterhaching, and Scunthorpe United will never win the Champions League, why Manchester City, Roma, and Paris St. Germain can, and why Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United cannot be stopped / / Stefan Szymanski ; introduction by Simon Kuper

• Autore: Szymanski Stefan <1960->
• Pubblicazione: New York, New York : , : Nation Books, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 796.33
• Soggetto topico: Football; Soccer
• Persona (resp. second.): KuperSimon
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontcover; Contents; Foreword; Author's Note; 1 - DOMINANCE AND DISTRESS; 2 - PLAYERS; 3 - STADIUMS; 4 - REVENUE; 5 - DEBT; 6 - OWNERSHIP; 7 - STRATEGY; 8 - INSOLVENCY; 9 - AMERICA; 10 - REGULATION; CONCLUSION; Notes; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Modern soccer is big business. From the ill-received takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family to Paris Saint Germain's current shopping spree for the best footballers on the planet, soccer finance has become an increasingly important part of the game.Barely a summer goes by now without a cherished club going into administration or a wealthy businessman funding a mid table team's ascension to Champions League competitor. Meanwhile, the twice-annual multi-million dollar merry-go-round of transfer season sees players (and now managers) signed for sums thought impossible just a decade a
• Titolo autorizzato: Money and football
• ISBN: 1-56858-527-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797275303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II