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Samuel Agini

Sports business reporter

Sam reports on the business of sport for the FT. His coverage includes football, Formula 1, golf and rugby. Before he joined the FT, he was a correspondent at Dow Jones, where he covered trading, market structure and exchanges.
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  • Thursday, 1 August, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can athletics win a big audience outside the Olympics?

    The sport has less media coverage and prize money than many rivals. Three new projects are competing to raise its profile beyond the Games

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  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Manchester United PLC
    Ratcliffe’s race to reboot Man Utd extends beyond the pitch

    New billionaire owner has embarked on sweeping changes in an effort to restore club’s fortunes

    FT montage from left: Jim Ratcliffe, Rasmus Hojlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Diogo Dalot
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Football
    Chinese groups take centre stage in Euro 2024 advertising drive

    Move underlines global pulling power of football and live sport to help companies boost sales and profits

    England’s Harry Kane in front of the sponsors’ wall for Euro 2024 with the logos of brands including Atos, Strauss, BYD, Coca-Cola, Hisense, Betano and Alpay
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Football
    Staveley to sell Newcastle United stake to PIF and Reuben Brothers

    Top shareholders strengthen their grip on Premier League club with buyout of British dealmaker

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  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Football
    France’s football league in last-ditch talks over TV deal

    DAZN and Amazon return to negotiations as pressure grows to find solution

    Kylian Mbappé reacts after scoring a goal during the UEFA Champions League group F football match between BVB Borussia Dortmund and Paris Saint-Germain in December 2023
  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
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  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Special ReportThe Business of Formula One
    Racing simulator venues show power of the Formula One brand

    The name above the doors is helping to accelerate F1 Arcade’s expansion

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  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
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    ‘F1 festival’ secures Silverstone’s Grand Prix future — at a price

    Circuit bets on music to attract crowds but rising ticket costs are drawing fans’ ire

  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
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    ‘Cash for gold medals’ call prompts debate on Olympian scale

    Pressure is on to innovate as new business models, competition formats and events come to athletics

  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Premier League
    English Premier League clubs forecast to post record collective revenues

    Teams expect to benefit from changes to European competitions, higher ticket prices and stadium capacity

    Manchester City’s Erling Haaland kicks the ball past Luton Town’s defender Daiki Hashioka
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Everton Football Club Co Ltd
    Dan Friedkin, the stunt-pilot billionaire circling Everton FC

    US car sales tycoon and AS Roma proprietor owns Hollywood production studios and flew a Spitfire in film ‘Dunkirk’

    Dan Friedkin with an AS Roma trophy.
  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Everton Football Club Co Ltd
    Everton enters exclusive sale talks with billionaire Friedkin family

    Texas-based owner of AS Roma starts due diligence after collapse of 777 Partners deal

    Everton’s Abdoulaye Doucouré in action at Goodison Park, Liverpool
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Sport
    Olympian Michael Johnson eyes athletics revival with new league

    US champion is commissioner for fan-focused ‘Grand Slam Track’ launching next year

    Michael Johnson
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Fifa
    Footballers launch legal action over workload and Club World Cup

    Global players’ union faces off with governing body over ‘overloaded and unworkable’ calendar

    Jude Bellingham of England at a training session
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Northern Ireland
    N Ireland’s chance of Euro 28 football boost being ‘squandered’ by lack of funding

    Refurbishment of Belfast’s derelict Casement Park stadium has stalled as UK government financing has failed to materialise

    Casement Park
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Premier League
    Aston Villa billionaire owner calls for Premier League spending rules reform

    Nassef Sawiris lambasts opaque penalties faced by clubs for breaches and says system cements status quo

    Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins playing against Premier League rivals Brentford
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Premier League
    Man City legal challenge exposes Premier League splits on spending rules

    Top-tier football clubs divided on what to do about financial regulations they say are not working

    Man City players Erling Braut Haaland and Ederson celebrate becoming Premier League champions last month
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Everton Football Club Co Ltd
    Everton’s lenders battle to take control of Premier League club

    Owner Farhad Moshiri is entertaining offers from rival creditors after sale to 777 Partners collapsed

    Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin, right, in action against Manchester United earlier this year
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Kylian Mbappé
    Kylian Mbappé seals move to European champions Real Madrid

    World’s top player joins club football’s most successful side

    Kylian Mbappé celebrates after scoring a goal
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Sport
    World Athletics unveils plan for new competition with record $10mn prize pot

    Ultimate Championship event will aim to lure elite athletes in effort to expand the sport’s global appeal

    Runners in Heroes’ Square, Budapest, during last year’s World Athletics Championships
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Everton Football Club Co Ltd
    777 deal to buy Everton Football Club collapses

    British-Iranian owner Farhad Moshiri says the sale and purchase agreement has ‘expired’

  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Football
    How a bet on Everton engulfed a football investor and its financial backers

    The fallout from 777 Partners’ buying spree has spread from the Premier League to insurance policyholders

  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Insurance
    Rating agency claims ‘lifeblood’ at stake in 777-linked downgrade dispute

    AM Best warns of ‘irreparable damage’ if court bars it from publishing view on insurers exposed to Everton bidder

    Football match between Arsenal and Everton
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    FC Internazionale Milano SpA
    Oaktree seizes control of Inter Milan after Chinese owner fails to repay loan

    Retailer Suning warns investment firm that its action could ‘seriously jeopardise’ Italian football club

    Inter Milan’s Argentine forward Lautaro Martinez
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Chelsea FC PLC
    Mauricio Pochettino exits Chelsea Football Club

    US owners part ways with third manager in two years since buying Premier League team from Roman Abramovich

    Mauricio Pochettino
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