Kevin De Bruyne, Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ben White are among the top players using a data company to give them an edge in contract negotiations. But how does it work?

Interested in a player's top speed? What about how quickly he gets to 10 mph in his first 5 yards? Teams get all sorts of data.

As the commission pointed out, just because data is used does not mean that reliable, responsible insight is necessarily ...

Football players are seeking to gain more control of their performance data through ‘stop processing’ requests, in an attempt to strike a better balance between firms’ commercial interests ...