Aston Villa facing Premier League scrutiny over £55m Warehouse sale Sport Business Aston Villa’s latest accounting manoeuvre – selling “The Warehouse” to the club’s owners for £55m – is yet to be signed off by the Premier League. Some top-flight clubs have avoided breaching spending rules in recent years by selling their stadiums and women’s teams to companies within the same ownership group. In a new twist, [...]
LIV Golf open to PGA resolution and in talks over team sales, says president Sport Business LIV Golf chiefs insist they remain open to working with the PGA Tour amid apparently receding prospects of a merger of interests but are focused on the next phase of their business, including the sale of stakes in two teams. More than two and a half years after a “framework agreement” was announced for the [...]
Aston Villa figure joins LIV Golf League Sport Business Former Aston Villa bigwig Chris Heck has joined LIV Golf as the Saudi Arabia-backed league’s new president of business operations. Heck left Villa this season after a two-year stint that saw the Premier League club reach the Champions League. It comes as the US Amateur champion Jose Luis Ballester snubbed a spot on the Korn [...]
Aston Villa to boost Villa Park capacity beyond 50,000 by 2027 April 24, 2025 Aston Villa have revealed plans to increase the capacity of Villa Park to more than 50,000 by more than doubling the number of seats in its North Stand. The Premier League club aim to complete the work by late 2027, in time for being one of the host venues for Euro 2028, which is being [...]