Brand Mbappe takes the throne

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The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mark Chapman & The Athletic's Matt Slater host a roundtable on the reasons and ramifications of La Liga filing a complaint to UEFA, the French administrative courts and the European Union over Kylian Mbappe's decision to renew his contract at Paris Saint-Germain despite Real’s attempts to sign him. Their guests are Christian Nourry Managing Partner at RETEXO a sports analytics firm that uses data to match owners to prospective football clubs & works with clubs to market their players more effectively to clubs seeking players with similar characteristics plus David Diaz, a partner at Baker McKenzie Madrid who has extensive experience in sports law in football. He regularly advises Spanish and foreign clubs on the legal aspects of their operations. He also has extensive experience in advising foreign investors with a potential interest in the game. The panel also touch on the takeover of Chelsea - is it a deal that makes financial sense? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic. Hello I'm Mark Chapman. Welcome to the Business of Sport Podcast on the Athletic
0:17.5	Max Later with us as usual and later in the pod we'll discuss the news that
0:22.1	the UK government has approved the 4.25 billion
0:26.2	£2 take over of Chelsea by a consortium led by LA Dodgers co-owner Todd Burrell.
0:32.4	First up though a discussion on the reasons and ramifications of La Liga filing the complaint to
0:37.7	UAFA, the French Administrative Courts and the European Union over Killian Mbape's decision to renew his contract at Paris Saint-Germain,
0:46.5	despite Rael's attempt to sign the player since last summer.
0:50.5	An official statement from La Liga on Saturday said that it was scandalous that
0:56.2	PSG could afford to make the deal stating that it attacks the integrity of European football.
1:02.7	So joining us together perspective from both sides.
1:05.3	We're joined by David Diaz, a partner at Baker-McCenzie Madrid,
1:08.3	who has extensive experience in sports law in football,
1:12.0	regularly advising Spanish and foreign clubs on the legal aspects of their operations.
1:16.7	And he also has extensive experience in advising foreign investors with a potential interest.
1:21.2	And for insight into Paris-Nageman,
1:23.1	we have Christian Nure, works for sports analytics firm, Rataxo Intelligence,
1:27.5	a sports analytics firm that uses data to match owners
1:31.4	to prospective football clubs and works with clubs to market their players more effectively
1:36.5	to club seeking players with similar characteristics.
1:40.0	Christian let me start with you I obviously understand the value of
1:43.6	Kille and M Bape on the pitch to Paris Saint-Germain. What are the values to
1:49.0	Paris- Saint-Germain of Kille and M-Bape off the field?, I think it comes to this central tenant
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