The price of fame: Examining discrepancies in football club valuations
This article delves into football club valuations, explores the methodologies used for publicly reported values, and identifies factors that contribute to the often-surprising gap between reported values and transaction prices. Further, it discusses potential reasons that could explain the discrepancy between the reported value and the transaction price for recent transactions involving Chelsea F.C., Manchester United, and AC Milan.
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Shalabh Gupta
Shalabh Gupta is an Associate Director with Secretariat’s Damages and Forensic Investigations group based in Toronto. Shalabh has provided financial analyses, economic advisory, forensic accounting, quantification of damages and other litigation support services to clients and their counsel for over 10 years. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA), a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and a Chartered Business Valuator (CBV).
Amran Nawaz
Amran Nawaz is a Manager with Secretariat's Damages and Forensic Investigations group based in Toronto. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA/CA) and a Chartered Business Valuator (CBV). Mr. Nawaz specializes in preparing business valuation and economic damage quantification for commercial litigation, international trade, and investment disputes. His work typically involves financial damages assignments, fraud investigations, dispute analyses, and litigation support.
Andrew Costa
Andrew specialises in business valuations & damages at Secretariat. Andrew has provided audit, tax advisory and valuation services to multinational clients across several industries. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and has a Master of Accounting (MAcc) from the University of Waterloo.
