Brentford owner Benham weighs up minority investment in Bees March 19, 2025 Brentford have received multiple offers of minority investment from American groups who value the club at around £400m. Owner Matthew Benham has been seeking additional investment for over a year. Rothschild was appointed to oversee the sales process but City AM understands that the merchant bank is no longer working on the Brentford deal. The [...]
Global women’s sport set to hit £2bn in revenues in 2025 March 18, 2025 Global revenues across women’s elite sport will reach nearly £2bn in 2025, according to Deloitte. Basketball and football continue to lead growth across the sector – combined revenues from the whole of women’s sport are set to rise by over 240 per cent in just four years. The report backs up the “growth mode” storyline [...]
Will Man United’s stadium project really deliver £7.3bn a year to the UK? March 14, 2025 It wasn’t just the big top design and Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s comparison’s with the Eiffel Tower that raised eyebrows when Manchester United revealed the latest plans for a new £2bn stadium to replace Old Trafford this week. The benefits forecast for the project, which includes the wider regeneration of the area, also set tongues wagging: [...]
Liverpool rocked again as Van Dijk makes contract admission March 12, 2025 Liverpool have suffered another blow following their Champions League elimination after captain Virgil van Dijk admitted he may only have 10 games left at the club. Van Dijk, 33, is out of contract in the summer and the Dutchman insists he is still no nearer to knowing whether he will strike a new deal to [...]
Football Regulator: Reform UK demand government ‘leave football alone’ March 7, 2025 Reform UK has slammed plans for a football regulator interfering in the Premier League, insisting the government should “leave it alone”. A Westminster Hall debate this week drew sarcastic digs from both sports minister Stephanie Peacock and her shadow counterpart Louie French on the football regulator, which has recently concluded a series of debates in [...]
Ed Warner: My memo to sport’s blazers? Stay out of the way March 6, 2025 Sport governing bodies should focus on organisational framework but professional activity can largely be left to the free market, argues Ed Warner. Who doesn’t love a badge, especially if having the right to flaunt it conveys status? Witness the urge to wear replica kit, even though the status this gives is simply identification as a [...]
Mark Kleinman: Football watchdog search approaches injury time March 6, 2025 Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly City AM column. Today, he tackles the football watchdog search, big pay at GSK and CityFibre’s M&A warchest Football watchdog search approaches final whistle They think it’s all over. To paraphrase the immortal line of Kenneth Wolstenholme, the 1966 World [...]
LaLiga launches UK free-to-air rights tender as ITV deal comes to end March 4, 2025 Spanish football’s LaLiga has launched a media rights tender for free-to-air coverage of games in the United Kingdom. Two packages are on offer to British and Irish broadcasters: the first for exclusive access to all LaLiga matches, and the second for free-to-air matches scheduled for 8pm on Sunday evenings. ITV Sport has been the host [...]
FA Cup prize money: What non-league clubs would spend £2m on February 28, 2025 This weekend the fifth round of the FA Cup will hand out a good amount of prize money. But for the non-league clubs out of the draw, where would that money have been spent? Just the 16 teams remain in this weekend’s FA Cup fifth round, and there will be no representation from below the [...]
Pubs and bars to go into extra time if Lionesses score at Women’s Euros February 24, 2025 Pubs are set to be allowed to stay open until 1am if the Lionesses reach the latter stages of the Women’s Euros this summer. The Home Office wants to push back closing time at pubs and bars by two hours if England make it to the semi-finals or final of Women’s Euro 2025. The Lionesses [...]