Insider looks at a rash of football club takeovers, mainly by US investors. Does that mean football in the Midlands is now bigger business than ever? We also ask how affective are trade missions, and look at whether deals in the Midlands have really been wiped out by the credit crunch.
Remember standing on a milk crate and watching your heroes getting pummelled by Halifax Town? Sam Metcalf does. Here he finds out just why our American cousins started investing in Midlands football clubs and how the deals industry is scoring through a rash of takeovers.
Are trade missions the only route to global markets, do they work, and what are the alternatives? Ian Halstead finds out.
It’s been surf up for Midlands dealmakers so far in 2008 but, with recession swelling and the credit crunch blowing, is the rest of the year going to be too stormy for the sector? Kurt Jacobs dons his trunks, grabs his board and tests the water out there.
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