The UEFA Champions League, the most popular club football competition, has been growing in global popularity over the past few years.
Despite the rise in global awareness of the competition, Europe s top football club s, who are regular participants in the Champions League, having been losing money faster than Usain Bolt can run 100 meters.
According to UEFA s 2010 club licensing report, which has just been released, Europe s top clubs lost about €1.6 billion in 2010.
“Net losses have increased in European football every year since 2006, said UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino.
Income has grown but so have losses.
“In two years from 2008 to 2010 net losses have increased by €1bn. In 2006 losses were just €216m.
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Joao Cancelo is hoping to guide Portugal to their second European Championship crown in what will be his first appearance at the tournament.
The 30-year-old, who spent the 2023-24 season on loan with Bayern Munich and Barcelona, was forced to miss Euro 2020 after testing positive for Coronavirus.
Cancelo was replaced in the squad by Diogo Dalot, but featured at his first major tournament for the Selecao at the World Cup in Qatar two years ago.
Portugal start their group campaign in Leipzig against Czechia on Tuesday, and the defender is looking to make up for a lost opportunity in Germany this time around.
“It was unfair, because I had a great season, I felt like I should have been there but life didn t want it that way,” said Cancelo.
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The Los Angeles Rams just staked their spot atop the NFC food chain, taking a big bite out of the defending Super Bowl champs to move to 3-0 last Sunday. Los Angeles stays home for a key NFC West war with the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday.
Bookies opened L.A. as big as 6-point NFL betting chalk at home but early money on Arizona chipped that spread down to -5.5 then forced a heavy move to -4.5 Tuesday afternoon. The Cardinals are also undefeated, behind an offense scoring a league-high 34.3 points per game.
Here are our NFL free picks and predictions for Cardinals at Rams on October 3.
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Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals have surprised most NFL fans outside the state of Ohio by making it to the AFC Championship Game. But after wins over the Las Vegas Raiders and the Tennessee Titans things get a little tougher this week.
Now, they face Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, who are trying to advance to the Super Bowl for the third straight season.
This is a matchup of two of the best offenses in the NFL, so you know there are plenty of betting options in the player prop market. Find out in our favorite free player props and predictions for the Bills vs. Chiefs in the AFC Championship.
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Critics have doubted Josh Allen at times this season, but the Buffalo Bills QB ended 2022 on a tear then put up a huge game against the Miami Dolphins in the Wild Card round. Now, he gets to face another shaky passing defense when the Bills host the Cincinnati Bengals in the Divisional Round on Sunday.
You could have questioned how efficient Allen was last weekend but there’s no doubting his final numbers, including three touchdowns and 352 yards passing. That’s the kind of production that always hits the Over on prop bets.
Win or lose, Buffalo will let Allen throw the ball and attack on offense this weekend. I’ll be targeting the Bills quarterback across the board in my free NFL picks below. For more, check out our Bengals vs. Bills picks an…
Halloween is on the way, which means it’s horror movie season. But if you think those flicks are scary, consider the Cleveland Browns’ quarterback situation heading into Week 6’s home stand with the San Francisco 49ers.
QB Deshaun Watson has been ruled out with a shoulder injury and so it’s now up to backup P.J. Walker to face a San Francisco defense ranked near the top of most statistical evaluations.
It’s a situation that’s spooked the NFL odds enough to move Cleveland from a 5-point home underdog to a +10.5 point pup.
Let’s size up the spread and Over/Under total for this Week 6 odds clash as I give my best NFL picks for 49ers vs. Browns on October 15.
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The Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans get the Saturday primetime stage for their “win and you’re in” Week 18 showdown, and there’s a bonanza of NFL odds to explore with a playoff spot on the line.
A lot has changed since these teams met in Week 2 when Anthony Richardson was the Indy starter and Dameon Pierce was dominating touches in the Houston backfield. Instead, we’ve got tasty NFL player props for Gardner Minshew and Devin Singletary this weekend.
These teams bring their matching 9-7 records to Lucas Oil Stadium, and I’ve highlighted my favorite NFL picks from the booming props market for January 6.
Be sure to also check out our Texans vs. Colts predictions and C.J. Stroud odds and props spotlight for mo…
Week 1 was about as wild as it gets, with shocking upsets (rip to all Bengals backers in survivor pools), unexpected breakouts (looking at you, J.K. Dobbins), and the Giants, Browns, and Jets never failing to disappoint… by being disappointments.
All that craziness led to a 2-3 week for me with my NFL player props, so we’ve got a reasonably low bar to pass for an improvement in Week 2.
My bounce-back week started with some tough luck in TNF, but my NFL picks today provide more optimism in backing a pair of WRs to exploit iffy defenses, a 3DRB to continue getting work in the pass game, and Travon Walker ravaging the Browns’ offense.
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Neil Lennon has vowed to shrug off any attempts to discredit a ninth league title in a row for Celtic, after the Scottish Premiership season was abandoned. Celtic led Rangers by 13 points, with eight games remaining to the Ibrox club’s nine and Scotland’s move to curtail the campaign was mired in deep controversy.
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“I can’t stop people from trying to put a negative spin on what we were achieving,” Lennon said. “But I don’t think anyone could have not foreseen us winning the league with the way we were playing, the form and consistency we were showing. No one could keep up with us. We just kept applying the pressure week in, week out and…
The total prize money for the Women’s FA Cup will increase to £3m next season with a “disproportionate” amount going into the early rounds.
As reported in the Guardian on Friday, the competition will have an almost tenfold rise on the £428,915 fund available to the 417 teams competing this season.
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“A disproportionate amount of this new fund will be invested into the early rounds of the competition,” the Football Association said. “This will ensure those clubs further down the pyramid really feel the benefit.”
The FA Board signed off on the increase last Thursday and it will now begin discussions on ho…