Liverpool’s £123m Bradley Barcola signing takes Premier League spending to £3bn Sport Business Premier League clubs are on course to threaten last year’s record £3.1bn summer spending on deadline day after Liverpool completed the £123m signing of Bradley Barcola. Teams in England’s top division have already shelled out around £3bn in the current window, which is set to close across Europe tomorrow night at 11pm. That leaves them [...]
Stokes and Gakpo part of £4m funding round for AI wealth firm Prosper Sport Business England cricket captain Ben Stokes and Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo are part of a £4m funding round for a wealth management platform leveraging AI. The sportsmen joined Fuel Ventures, who led the round with a £2m investment, in London-based FinTech Prosper. Olympians Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Dame Sarah Storey and Tim Podcock, and footballers Ben White [...]
England’s Foden among most overworked footballers, says player union Sport Manchester City midfielder Foden played 72 times for club and country last season and was one of six players from the English top division to make 70 or more appearances.