This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Matt Rogan Co-Founder and former Executive Chairman at Two Circles. Two Circles is an international sports and entertainment marketing business that leverages data and knowing fans best, to help organisations grow audiences and revenues.
In this exclusive, Paul & Matt discuss leadership lessons, the commercial opportunities for football clubs, how Two Circles helped clubs to capitalise on these opportunities, how F1/NBA/NFL commercialise their sports, revenue models in football, why building new stadia has become so important, Matt being a Chelsea pitch owner, the 3PM Blackout, the Premier League going direct-to-consumer, the big topical football business questions on the horizon and so much more.
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80. Ben Sadler: CEO at Walsall FC
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Ben Sadler Chief Executive Officer at Walsall FC. Ben was previously CEO at Morecambe FC and General Manager at Harrogate Town AFC.
In this exclusive, Paul & Ben discuss Ben's learnings from previous roles, the process of building a financially sustainable football club, the importance of alignment, leadership lessons, understanding context, the independent regulator, driving commercial and sporting success, creating and designing strategies, the day-to-day role, working with owners and within a multi-club model and so much more.
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79. Polly Bancroft: CEO at Grimsby Town FC
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Polly Bancroft Chief Executive Officer at Grimsby Town FC. Polly was previously Head of Women's Football at both Brighton and Hove Albion and Manchester United
In this exclusive, Paul & Polly discuss her learnings from working at Brighton and Manchester Utd, the importance of alignment and role clarity, building MDTs, leadership lessons, understanding context, developing a clear game model, driving commercial revenue, creating and designing strategies, the day-to-day role, working with owners and so much more.
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78. Mariela Nisotaki: Head of Emerging Talent at Norwich City
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Mariela Nisotaki, Head of Emerging Talent at Norwich City FC.
In this exclusive, Paul & Mariela discuss the evolution of scouting, the importance of emerging talent within squad planning, finding value in different markets, setting a clear game model at a football club, how the game model influences scouting and recruitment, building a Premier League-ready squad, the challenges and learning of the role, using live scouting/data/video scouting to profile players, having a robust process to sign-off on players, working within a multi-disciplinary team and with a sporting director and so much more.
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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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Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
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