European football's governing body embeds environmental, social and governance requirements in club licensing, making sustainability a condition of entry.
Expected goals measures chance quality, not conversion — and treating a striker's xG as a verdict on his finishing quietly ignores everything the model was never built to see.
Licensing exams, mandatory disclosure and contested commission caps are redrawing who can operate in football's intermediation business.
The structure a team leaves behind the ball when it attacks — its rest defence — decides almost everything about how badly it can be hurt on the break.
A compressed calendar, thin supply and urgent buyers combine to make mid-season prices systematically higher than summer ones.