Tomiwo Akinbowale

Business Intelligence Analyst | Data to actionable insights | Process Improvement | Sports lover

[Tomiwo Akinbowale @tomzd99]

Normalize calling believers in Christ what they truly are. Some are just believers, some are converts, some are disciples of Christ, and some Christians.

Not every believer is a Christian.!

[Gia Macool @GiaMMacool]

Your husband is the only person who ever loved you purely by choice.

Your family was already written into your story.

Parents loved you because you were theirs.

Siblings stayed because you shared blood.

Even your child is there because you’re the mother.

But your husband walked in as a complete stranger.

No obligation.
No duty.
No shared past.

He could have built a life with anyone else.

Yet he chose you.

Chose to grow old with you.

Chose to call you home.

That kind of love is never automatic.

It is a daily, deliberate decision to stay, especially when it’s hard.

So never forget to thank the man who still chooses you every single day.

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Marc Cucurella @cucurella3]

Thank you 💙

[Ajoje⚽⚖️ @israel_ajoje]

This one is really dicey.

FIFA is registered as a non-profit association under Swiss law. Its 211 member associations own it. It pays no corporate tax in Switzerland. And right now, while the ink is barely dry on the 2026 World Cup final, it is in advanced discussions to sell a minority stake in its commercial operations to private investors, with JP Morgan acting as financial adviser and Thrive Capital, whose chief executive is Josh Kushner, expected to lead the investor group.

UEFA is responding. And I see reason with them. Their statement called it a crossing of a line and said the soul and governance of football are not assets to trade.

Let me explain what is actually happening here and why both positions are legally and commercially coherent at the same time.

The legal vehicle at the centre of this is called FIFA Forward Enterprise, or FFE. It is a FIFA-owned company that would consolidate all of FIFA's commercial rights, broadcasting, sponsorship, ticketing, licensing, and the operational delivery of FIFA tournaments, into a single entity.

Based on how things are proposed, FIFA would retain majority control and exclusive authority over governance, competitions, the match calendar, and all regulatory and sporting decisions.

Private investors would then hold a minority, non-controlling stake in the subsidiary, not in FIFA itself. FIFA says the proposal could deliver more than $10 billion in football development funding over the next four years.

Now here is the legal position.

Under Swiss association law, FIFA has broad autonomy over how it manages and commercialises its assets, provided it pursues its statutory purpose of promoting football and follows its internal decision-making rules.

Creating a commercial subsidiary and selling minority stakes in it to private investors is not categorically prohibited under any applicable law. FIFA already commercialises its rights aggressively through sponsorships, media deals, and licensing arrangements worth billions of dollars per cycle.

Placing some of that commercial activity into a valued vehicle and inviting outside capital is structurally an extension of what FIFA already does, not a departure from it. The proposal requires approval from the FIFA Council and the 211 member associations. That approval process is where the real legal constraints sit, not in Swiss corporate law.

What UEFA is objecting to is not the legality of the structure. They are objecting to the incentive architecture it creates once private capital is inside the tent. And again, that objection deserves to be taken seriously.

Even with formal majority control retained, private investors seeking returns will create ongoing pressure. They will request more matches, an expanded calendar. They will make decisions that prioritise revenue over player welfare or competitive balance.

Of course that pressure will not arrive through a boardroom vote. It arrives gradually, through the logic of what a return on investment requires. FIFA can retain exclusive authority over sporting decisions and still find that sporting decisions are shaped by the financial expectations of its commercial partners. Those are not mutually exclusive outcomes.

The legal permissibility of this structure is high if internal approvals are obtained. The binding constraints are member consent, political capital, and the risk that private capital incentives gradually reshape priorities even under retained formal control.

Football has watched that process play out at club level for thirty years. The question being asked right now, with genuine urgency, is whether the same dynamic should be allowed inside the institution that governs the game itself.

My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

[City! @dolapocarter]

I’ve been thinking about this for a while and I think I finally understand why nobody is truly willing to fight for Nigeria.

We have no real nationalism.

Not the shallow flag waving kind I mean the deep kind. The kind that makes you feel like what happens to a stranger in Kano is your problem too even though you’ve never left Lagos

And it makes sense when you think about it. Nigeria was never built around shared identity. No culture of honouring sacrifice. No moment where Nigeria looked at the people who bled for it and said we see you and that is why bad leaders will keep winning.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

LeBron will make $4M a year from the Sixers. Living in Manhattan and helicoptering to Philadelphia could cost him over $1M of it. He'd be spending a quarter of his salary to avoid living in the city he plays for.

Run the numbers. Shams says the flight is 45 minutes from Manhattan. Twin-engine charter rates run $3,000 to $5,000 an hour, so call it $8,000 a round trip. With 41 home games plus practices, that's 100+ commuting days. $800K a season, minimum.

Then taxes. A New York City resident pays up to 14.8% combined state and city income tax. Pennsylvania is a 3.07% flat tax. On a $4M salary, choosing Manhattan over Philly adds $300K+ a year, and New York taxes residents on everything they earn everywhere.

So why does a man who just took a $48M pay cut spend seven figures on a commute? Because the paycheck stopped mattering years ago. LeBron earns roughly $80M a year off the court. His entire Sixers salary equals about 18 days of being LeBron.

The vet minimum was a gift of cap room to the front office so Embiid, Maxey, and Jaylen Brown get surrounded with actual depth. And when your day job pays 5% of your income, you arrange the day job around your life. His family, his media company, and his business all run better out of the biggest market in America.

Kobe ran this exact math two decades ago, flying from Newport Beach to Staples every day. What he was actually purchasing was hours with his daughters. LeBron at 41, on possibly his last contract, is buying the same thing.

[BudgIT Nigeria @BudgITng]

That's not the question.

Nobody is asking the Budget Office whether the money was spent.

A so-called fake agency made it into Nigeria's 2026 Appropriation Act and got over ₦1.3 billion allocated to it.

The Budget Office says the money was never released because the controls worked.

Fine.

But how did an agency the government now says does not exist get an official budget code, an establishment approval and recruitment waiver, make it into the Executive Budget, pass through the National Assembly and get signed into law?

Who was supposed to catch that?

This is bigger than the ₦1.3 billion.

If the controls worked only after the allocation had already made it into the Appropriation Act, then we need to ask a bigger question about the controls that govern how things get into the budget in the first place.

[Bolaji @Bolajireal1]

Watch the End gonna love it 😍….

[Soymeal 🇳🇬 @nkutehogan]

Met this street kid in Uyo, along Ekom iman. Loved the way he played football and so our "bromance" started. One day I asked if he wanted to go to school. He told me no sponsor. I got him registered at Bishop Usanga school. We joined second term, result came out 30th of 31st

[Brian @CFCMJordan]

Here are the sales stats of all the top 6 teams since 2022.

Chelsea: £942m
Man City: £489m
Liverpool: £375m
Tottenham: £354m
Man Utd: £286m
Arsenal: £222m

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

Most perfect 10.00 ratings since we started collecting data:

🇦🇷 130 - Lionel Messi
🇵🇹 38 - Cristiano Ronaldo
🇧🇷 33 - Neymar
🇺🇾 30 - Luis Suárez
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 26 - Harry Kane

[LeBron James @KingJames]

out. This is my last decision. I’m not going for money. I’m not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point?

I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete, to win and to have a chance at the feeling of winning

[Drawn Out of Water @meo_joule]

Imagine trying to convince a mathematician that the iPhone is real.

[Tomiwo Akinbowale @tomzd99]

@meo_joule Deep!!!!

[Tomiwo Akinbowale @tomzd99]

Jay Jay Okocha...so good they named him twice! A baller in my Bundesliga XI on #FC26

[Eintracht Frankfurt @Eintracht]

Never gone.
Always Eintracht.
The official Away Jersey 2026/27!
#SGE

[Tomiwo Akinbowale @tomzd99]

@hippojuicefilm The way she portrayed him was far off how he communicated in the text. Alas, he made the right choice. "Who said I was gonna show you?" Then went right ahead to show his text. 🤦🏾

[Messi archive 🇦🇷 @messi_archive10]

"All of Messi's 91 goals are tap ins and pens"

Now watch and enjoy 😉

[Tomiwo Akinbowale @tomzd99]

@neycentral Messi and Dani Alves was better

[Tomiwo Akinbowale @tomzd99]

@mor_quality Like I said, it's useless agenda. Cherry picking stats. You displayed your dumbness and stupidity cussing my parents.