What the footie happens behind the scenes in football? From the boardroom to the backroom staff #WhatTheFootie investigates how the business of football works. Once a month (on Mondays) host Paul Musa is joined by agents, directors, players, sports scientists, fans, friends of the pod and more to debate the big topics and answer your burning questions. So be prepared to question everything that you know about the beautiful game. Previous guests include Les Reed, Paul Barber, Dave Bassett, Steve Morrow & Eddie Bonsu.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whatthefootie/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatthefootie
Episodes
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Debbie Cook, CEO @ Grimsby Town FC.
In this exclusive, Paul & Debbie discuss the challenges of navigating up the pyramid, building a sustainable football club, creating and designing strategies, the day-to-day role of a CEO, making data-driven decisions and taking emotion out of decision-making, new partnership with the Twenty First Group, Gareth Jennings' new role as Strategic Advisor to the Board, the relationship between of the Head of Recruitment/Board/Head Coach, the new EFL TV deal, beating Luton Town and Southampton in the FA Cup and so much more.
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Monday Jun 05, 2023
Monday Jun 05, 2023
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with David Stevenson, former Head of Academy Recruitment & Analysis at Rangers FC and Head of Scouting & Performance Analysis at the Scottish Football Federation. David is currently a Lecturer in Sports Management at the University of Stirling.
In this exclusive, Paul & David discuss the evolution of performance analysis, getting by-in from players and coaches, how analysis differs in an academy environment vs a 1st team environment, how performance analysis fits interacts with other high performance departments, how to effectively communicate with players, technology, scanning in football, tactical innovation and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.
Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Liam Scully, CEO @ Lincoln City FC.
In this exclusive, Paul & Liam discuss the challenges of navigating up the pyramid, building a sustainable football club, creating and designing strategies, the day-to-day role of a CEO and what they get up to in the off-season, leveraging the loan system (Brooke Norton-Cuffy), multi-sport ownership, the importance of Landon Donovan’s role as Strategic Advisor to the Board, the golden triangle of the Sporting Director/CEO/Head Coach, the 3pm blackout/new EFL TV deal, what FA Cup replays mean for clubs in the EFL and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.
Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is our audience Q&A with Paul Barber, CEO & Deputy Chairman at Brighton & Hove Albion FC. If you missed Part 1 - the Live Podcast (Episode 65) you can listen to it here.
In February at Leyton Orient FC we had our Podcast Meetup which featured a live episode where both Paul's discussed Brighton’s ambition for the season and beyond, how they approach player recruitment, 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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Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Subomi Odanye and Matthew Quadri, Co-Founders @ Divrse Media.
In this exclusive, Paul & the guys discuss why they started Divrse Media, how they secured Alex Iwobi as their first client, the future of athlete branding, how clubs and brands can market to Gen Z, their recent work with Crystal Palace FC, big ideas we'd like to see in the game in light of recent marketing trends, their recent Gen Z x Football report and so much more.
What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.
Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Miles Jacobson, Studio Director @ Sports Interactive (the makers of Football Manager).
In this exclusive, Paul & Miles discuss the journey that the business has gone on since Miles first joined in 1994, how FM created one of the best scouting networks in the world, how Miles and the team embedded themselves within football and created partnerships with clubs, how the game has transcended football and gaming and so much more.
What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.
Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Paul Barber, CEO & Deputy Chairman at Brighton & Hove Albion FC.
Last month at Leyton Orient FC we had our Podcast Meetup which featured a live episode where both Paul's discussed Brighton’s ambition for the season and beyond, how they approach player recruitment, and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.
Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
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Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
In this exclusive, Paul & Tom discuss the financial challenges of navigating up the pyramid, creative approaches to player recruitment, leveraging the loan system (Elliot Anderson & Jarell Quansah), working with Joey Barton, the importance of boards/senior execs having open dialogue with fans, the growing interest from US investors in EFL clubs, the 3pm blackout/new EFL TV deal, an independent regulator and so much more.
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What The Footie is the football and business podcast that goes behind the scenes.
Please remember to support the pod with a follow & a 5 star review.
Today's episode is sponsored by Prorizon.
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with John Brenann, Ex-Head of Sport @ Snapchat, Founder & CEO of AC Momento (the football auction house for authenticated match-worn jerseys), and Investor in Angel City FC.
In this exclusive, Paul & John discuss why he founded AC Momento, what it’s like working with AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Lionel Messi and Vinicius Jr and THAT conversation him and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian had about women’s football and Angel City FC.
As well as the challenges of running a startup, raising money from Serena Williams VC fund, the growth of American investment into football, a Premier League all-star game, live football vs highlights, the 3pm blackout and so much more.
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Monday Oct 10, 2022
Monday Oct 10, 2022
This week’s What The Footie Podcast is with Joe Foster, Founder of Reebok and Author of Shoemaker.
In this exclusive, Paul & Joe discuss Reebok's growth story, the future of sports marketing, how sport influences streetwear, Reebok making a return into football, sport as an entertainment business, building a winning high-performance culture and where he thinks Authentic Brands Group can take Reebok over the next decade.
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