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Arsenal & football fan. Providing accessible commentary on football financial matters. Enjoy good faith debate. Twitter: @themagic_tophat Substack: substack.com/@themagictophat
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โšฝ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ-๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—จ๐—”๐—˜ Story can be found for free in my substack, here: open.substack.com/pub/themagic...

submitted 90 days ago โ€ข 1 comment

The Christian way of throwing shade?

submitted 91 days ago โ€ข 2 comments

2025 feels like a good year to win the UCL.

submitted 92 days ago โ€ข 1 comment

โšฝ๏ธโš–๏ธ ๐—ฃ๐—Ÿ ๐˜ƒ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€ - ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ด๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐˜ ๐Ÿ“Š An explainer of some of the evidence against Man City. open.substack.com/pub/themagic...

submitted 92 days ago โ€ข 3 comments

Wellโ€ฆ you may have blinked and missed it but Arsenal fans certainly did not. It felt like a lifetime.

submitted 92 days ago โ€ข 2 comments

Anyone else excited for a couple of seasons of Arsenal v Liverpool for the title? After 35 years, I am!

submitted 92 days ago โ€ข 3 comments

Haha.

submitted 93 days ago โ€ข 13 comments

The below was mostly without ร˜, Timber at RB, Calafiori at LB. The 3 keys to our creativity. All 3 come back in and Arsenal go wallop the most in-form team in Europe 5-1 away from home. Itโ€™s good Liverpool got a big headstart. It will make the league more interesting. Credit @markstats.club

submitted 93 days ago โ€ข 1 comment

โš–๏ธ๐ŸฅŠ ๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—–๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€? Just posted about this on my new substack (itโ€™s free). open.substack.com/pub/themagic...

submitted 94 days ago โ€ข 7 comments

@scott.cannonstats.com I think Iโ€™ve seen you post transfer fee analysis in the past that factors in inflation. If so, you use CIES as a source for rate of inflation in fees (see below) or something else? football-observatory.com/Inflation-in...

submitted 94 days ago โ€ข 1 comment

The rise of EPL international TV rights โšฝ๏ธ 1992-97: ยฃ8m p/a โšฝ๏ธ 1997-2001: ยฃ25m (โฌ†๏ธ 213%) โšฝ๏ธ 2001-04: ยฃ59m (136%) โšฝ๏ธ 2004-07: ยฃ108m (83%) โšฝ๏ธ 2007-10: ยฃ208m (93%) โšฝ๏ธ 2010-13: ยฃ480m (131%) โšฝ๏ธ 2013-16: ยฃ743m (55%) โšฝ๏ธ 2016-19: ยฃ1.0bn (39%) โšฝ๏ธ 2019-22: ยฃ1.3bn (29%) โšฝ๏ธ 2022-25: ยฃ1.7bn (26%) โšฝ๏ธ 2025-28: ยฃ2.4bn (41%)

submitted 95 days ago โ€ข 4 comments

Arteta talked about the build-up to this game and says it was the first time in weeks they could train with 19 players.

submitted 96 days ago โ€ข 0 comments