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Tariq Panja
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⚽️💰🚓 Co-author Football's Secret Trade| NYT Global Sports Correspondent| ✉️[email protected] |[email protected]|
FIFA disciplinary code: A player should serve “at least three matches or an appropriate period of time for assault, including elbowing, punching, kicking, biting, spitting or hitting an opponent or a person other than a match official”
November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Had a call from a senior football official and his view on this ruling by FIFA to ensure Ronaldo gets to play at the World Cup: “Unprecedented.”

Was a different precedent last year when somehow qualification rules emerged to ensure FIFA’s Club World Cup had a Lionel Messi team in it.
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Familiar face for US football fans in amongst it all
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We can still expect a few of these curious related party deals now until the new rules kick in.
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Women’s team loophole now closed under SCR arrangement. Chelsea benefitted significantly in the past by selling women’s team to themselves.
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The “football revenue” of this requires further detail from the PL. As it stands revenues that can be counted, perhaps fairly, include things like concerts and events. PL still to reveal finer details of inclusions and exclusions. Including in this summary: www.premierleague.com/en/news/4467...
New Premier League financial system explained
A summary of Squad Cost Ratio (SCR) and Sustainability and Systemic Resilience (SSR), which will replace Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) from the 2026/27 season
www.premierleague.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Good chance a streamer gets rights in Spain and France too. That has gone to a second round of bidding that took place today.
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Paramount owners currently bidding to buy TNT owner Warner Bros Discovery. FT reporting today that David Ellison, whose dad is really rich, approached Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states to help fund bid for Warner.

www.ft.com/content/9795...
Paramount held talks with Saudi wealth fund over potential Warner Bros Discovery bid
David Ellison met officials from the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund, among other Gulf investors
www.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM