The dispute between George Copos and Fathi Taher on a contract signed in March could have an unexpected end – the turn up of a different choice as owner of the club.Today is the last day in which Fathi Taher, businessman of Jordanian origin, can take over the package of 80% stocks of the football club Rapid Bucuresti. The last days were marked by a big incertitude related to the financial future of the club. Taher and George Copos, the... [...]

Football is the most recent bet of the “wizard” Ovidiu Tender. Used to straighten out the troubled companies, Tender is heading towards a very sensitive area, in which the “fixed assets” are represented by the football players, and the profit might depend on a shot’s deflection.The idea that the businessman Ovidiu Tender to become major shareholder of the club FC Timisoara turned up during this autumn, and was... [...]

A Spanish court has authorized the sale of the majority stake in Mallorca Spanish club to the British businessman Paul Davidson, according to AFP. Davidson, who is head of pipe-fitting business, will pay 38 million euro to buy 91,24% of the club from Vincente Grande, a Spanish businessman whose real estate agency has problems. Since Grande was declared insolvent, the agreement had to be approved by a court. Mallorca teams are at the moment on... [...]

The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) plans radical cost-cutting measures in Formula 1, over the next five years, with the purpose of avoiding the loss of this competition. According to some documents published by the British daily newspaper The Times, Max Mosley, the president of the FIA, has convoked for the next week the top ten teams in Geneva. It bill be brought into discussion the introducing of new technical... [...]

The new competition season from the First football League brings records on financial plan, especially due to the big earnings obtained for the TV rights, coming back in of the Romanian teams in the Champion League circuit and development of the sports marketing. However, it is a long distance against the Western championship in what concerns the organization or transparency. According to the figures available on the market, the total... [...]

The problems of Ukraine in setting up the co-organization of the European Football Champion from 2012 remained in the public attention, by the assumption launched in the British press about an eventual involvement of Germany. The Daily Telegraph journal published at the beginning of this week the information that UEFA contracted the German Football Federation in order to substitute Ukraine in organizing the tournament, next to Poland. So,... [...]

The industry of the sport marketing from Romania made one more step towards professionalizing by introducing new instruments generators of image. In the season recently ended, the football clubs and the advertising agencies have adopted on large scale, a “third generation” instrument for the advertising on stadiums -3D advertisement. After the billboards type banner and the LED Display, the clubs have tried to turn account from... [...]

UEFA will try to convince the English football clubs to accept smaller sums for the performances of the Champions League, according to BBC. The European forum has published the earned figures in last season by the clubs from Premier League: Manchester United 33,9 million pounds, Chelsea – 28,7 million, Liverpool – 21,1 million, and Arsenal – 18,3 million. William Gaillard, UEFA spokesman, said that the algorithm of the... [...]

Ukraine, co-host country of the European Football Championship from 2012, has broken off talks with a Taiwanese company which renovates the stadium where follows to be scheduled the final of the tournament, according to the agency sportbusiness.com. This incident turns up just days before the visit of Michel Platini, president of UEFA. Rostyslav Karandeyev, Sports Minister, stated that the negotiations had ended with Archasia Design Group... [...]

Accustomed from the intern championship, where “sponsor” is also  the little businessman which gives some money in order to turn up at TV as a specialist, and the multinational which invests one million to see its logo on the chest, back or posterior of the football players, we have started to give a pejorative connotation to this term. However, in the good world of sport, the sponsorship is a serious problem. And the big... [...]