What The Footie Podcast What The Footie
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What the footie happens behind the scenes in football? From the boardroom to the backroom staff #WhatTheFootie investigates how the business of football works. Every fortnight (Mondays) host Paul Musa is joined by agents, directors, players, sports scientists, fans, friends of the pod and more to debate the big topics and answer your burning questions. So be prepared to question everything that you know about the beautiful game. Previous guests include Les Reed, Dave Bassett, Steve Morrow, Laura Raffety & Eddie Bonsu.
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77. Nancy Hensley: Founding Member at Mercury 13
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Nancy Hensley, Founding Member at Mercury 13 (a multi-club ownership group focused on acquiring controlling stakes in professional women's football) and former Chief Marketing and Product Officer at Stats Perform.
In this exclusive, Paul & Nancy discuss Mercury 13's ambition and strategies, the benefits and challenges of multi-club ownership models, the growth and future of women's football, how data can transform women's football and the lack of data in it, and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
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76. Claire Stewart: Are There Too Many Games? And How Prorizon Tech Will Fix It?
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Claire Stewart Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Prorizon Tech.
In this exclusive, Paul and Claire discuss why Prorizon is important for the future of football, the state of football (increased fixtures and tournament expansion), the effects that it has on players, the challenges of running a startup and selling tech solutions to the biggest teams in the world, player welfare, the challenges that football players face, the data revolution in football and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
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75. Felix Torralba: Chief Revenue Officer at RCD Mallorca
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Felix Torralba Chief Revenue Officer at RCD Mallorca.
In this exclusive, Paul & Felix discuss life in La Liga, the role of a Chief Revenue Officer, doing global partnership deals, building a financially sustainable football club, creating and designing strategies, the day-to-day role, redeveloping the stadium, capitalising on Mallorca's rich tourism history to grow the fanbase, American investors in football, their partnership and links with the NBA's Phoenix Suns, La Liga's CVC deal and why the clubs in La Liga needed it, the distribution of wealth in Spain in comparison to other leagues like the Premier League, FFP and financial sustainability rules, taking the RCD Mallorca to America and Asia, the importance of storytelling for a football club and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
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74. Tim Williams: CEO at Oxford United FC
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Tim Williams CEO at Oxford United Football Club. Former Group Financial Controller at Manchester United, Chief Financial Officer at Inter Milan and Managing Director at Tifosy.
In this exclusive, Paul & Tim discuss the challenges of navigating up the pyramid, the Premier League's role in the pyramid, building a financially sustainable football club, creating and designing strategies, the day-to-day role, developing a new stadium, being a Top 30 club in England, setting a culture in a football club, developing loan players, the 3pm blackout/broadcasting, the distribution of wealth in England, new ownership models, FFP and financial sustainability rules, valuing a football club and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
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73. Carol Shanahan: Owner & Chair at Port Vale FC
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Carol Shanahan, Owner & Chair at Port Vale Football Club.
In this exclusive, Paul & Carol discuss the challenges of navigating up the pyramid, building a sustainable football club, creating and designing strategies, the day-to-day role, the loan system, being League 1 steady and Championship ready, hiring a Sporting Director, creating first-team pathways for academy players, the new EFL TV deal/TV revenues, the distribution of wealth in England, competing against different ownership models, being a people-orientated leader, culture and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
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72. Tatjana Haenni: Chief Sporting Director @ NWSL
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Tatjana Haenni, the NWSL's Chief Sporting Director.
In this exclusive, Paul & Tatjana discuss the NWSL's ambition to be the world's number one women's football league, creating and designing strategies, what it takes to be a new NWSL franchise, the social movement in the USA which has contributed to athlete investors investing in teams (Serena Williams & Patrick Mahomes), creating player pathways, the growth of the league, the challenges, Tatjana's 30-year experience of driving the growth of women's football forward, what's needed next and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.
Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
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Love Paul’s show. Football is big business and hearing from people behind the scenes and having their thoughts on the game is amazing. Always look forward to the next episodes. Keep up the good work.
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