BusinessOfSport.Net YouTube ChannelBack in July last year, stunning news emerged that the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was being sold for an eye-watering $4 billion to William Morris Endeavor-International Management Group, (WME-IMG), one of the biggest representation firms in sport. The price tag stands as most expensive transaction for an organisation in sports history and was about seven times its gross…
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To football fans 1997 must seem like a lifetime ago. The mercurial Eric Cantona would unexpectedly announce his retirement from the sport, while the Brazilian legend Ronaldo would shatter the world transfer record fee, moving from Barcelona to Inter Milan for a then whopping £19.5 million. It was also the first year that Deloitte, the…
Liverpool has finally got its man. Virgil Van Dijk, the 6ft 4 defender, has put pen to paper on a deal worth £75 million.
Jaws dropped that Chelsea attacking midfielder Oscar was joined Chinese side Shanghai SIPG for a stunning £52 million. Why?
BT Sports deal with boxing promoter Frank Warren could be a game changer for the sport in the UK and threaten rival promoter, Eddie Hearn’s decade-long supremacy in the sport.
The NFL season will be truly landmark moment for sports fans, thanks to the league’s deal with Twitter to live stream ten games for free worldwide . Following on from the NFL's own previous test case with Yahoo, who streamed one game last season, which successfully yielded 15.2 million viewers and 33.6 million video streams,…
Sports Going Online - A Brave New World2016 has turned into a momentous year for sports, just not so much on the field. It can finally be christened the when sports, much like TV series, went finally online. There as so many examples`from the year so far including: Twitter signing a deal with the NFL…