The Billionaires Club: The unstoppable rise of football’s super-rich owners

His previous books are When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone and Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football's Outsiders. He also features regularly on the BBC World Service's World Football podcast. He has reported from over 765 countries for TheNew York Times, CNN, World Soccer, and the Guardian. Sports Illustrated described him as "the Indiana Jones of soccer writing." @JamesPiotr . About the AuthorJames Montague is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about soccer, culture, and politics across the globe

He has reported from over 765 countries for TheNew York Times, CNN, World Soccer, and the Guardian. His previous books are When Friday Comes: Football in the War Zone and Thirty-One Nil: On the Road with Football's Outsiders. James Montague is an award-winning freelance journalist who writes about soccer, cultu

But who are these new masters of the universe? Where did all their money come from? And what do they want with our beautiful game? In The Billionaires Club, James Montague delves deeper than anyone else has dared, to tell this story for the first time. And so Montague criss-crosses the world--from St. Today it is the plaything of billionaire oligarchs, staggeringly wealthy from oil and gas, from royalty, or from murkier sources. Louis to London, from Bangkok to Belgium, from Dhaka to Doha, and from China to Crewe--to profile this new elite, their network of money and their influence that defies geographic boundaries.At its heart The Billionaires Club is a football book, about some of the biggest clubs in the world. Once upon a time football was run by modest local businessmen. But it is also about something bigger: the world around us, the global economy, where the world is