Readings
Football clubs,
read closely.
Long-form portraits of European clubs chosen for the interest of their model — ownership, governance, transformation, narrative. No scoops, no players for sale. Just a reading.
First series
Six clubs, six models
Six readings of European clubs whose ownership structure or recent trajectory says something about what European football is becoming.
- Paris FC France
Fifty-six years after its accidental birth, Paris's second football club is back in Ligue 1 and has beaten PSG at the Parc des Princes.
— Read - Red Star FC France
The club founded by Jules Rimet, sold to an American fund now collapsed, plays in a stadium under judicial restructuring.
— Read - Union Saint-Gilloise Belgium
Ninety years after its previous title, the Brussels club won the 2025 Belgian championship.
— Read - FC Nordsjælland Denmark
The only European football club bought by an African academy, now the European tip of a system that begins in Ghana.
— Read - Como 1907 Italy
Bought for eight hundred and fifty thousand euros by the richest men in Indonesia, went from the fourth division to Serie A in five years.
— Read - Parma Calcio 1913 Italy
Rebuilt after one of Europe's greatest frauds, now belongs to an American from Iowa with Sicilian roots.
— Read