By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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Man Utd deal was win-win for Ratcliffe and Glazers, says Raine Group

October 16, 2024

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s £1.25bn investment in Manchester United was a win for both him and majority shareholders the Glazers, insists the bank which brokered the deal. Ineos tycoon Ratcliffe shelled out for a 27.7 per cent stake in the Premier League football club in December and, in return, took over much of the decision-making from [...]
Tuchel reveals why time at Chelsea persuaded him to take England job

October 16, 2024

Thomas Tuchel has hailed his “personal connection” to English football after the FA confirmed his appointment as England manager. Tuchel has agreed an 18-month contract that will see him take charge of the team’s bid to win the 2026 World Cup in the US, Canada and Mexico. The German had a spell at Chelsea in [...]
FA in talks to hire German to manage England team – on record salary

October 15, 2024

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is also thought to have been sounded out about the job but talks with Tuchel are said to have progressed further.
Ratcliffe calls Fergie time as Man Utd axe former manager’s £2m-a-year job

October 15, 2024

Ferguson will leave the role, which he has held since stepping down as manager in 2013, at the end of the season.
Football is at ‘a tipping point’, Premier League boss warns

October 14, 2024

It came as umbrella body European Leagues and player union Fifpro formally filed a complaint against the world governing body at the European Commission.
Lay off Lee Carsley – he deserves credit not mockery for taking risks

October 14, 2024

Gareth Southgate was pilloried for not experimenting enough as England manager and now Lee Carsley is getting the same treatment for doing the opposite. It’s a funny old game. One of the big problems with international football is scarcity, although expansion-happy governing bodies may soon see to that. The relative infrequency of matches from which [...]
FIfa admits it will have to rewrite football’s transfer rules

October 14, 2024

The European Court of Justice ruled this month that Fifa’s existing regulations do not comply with EU law.
‘Anything can happen’: Guardiola leaves door open to England job

October 14, 2024

Pep Guardiola appears to have left the door open to the England job by declaring of his future: “Anything can happen.” The most successful manager of his generation is out of contract at Manchester City at the end of the season and undecided about his next move. Meanwhile, the Football Association remain in the market [...]
How Manchester City made shareholder loans the Premier League’s new battleground

October 11, 2024

Amid the claims and counter-claims that spewed forth after Manchester City’s legal challenge to the Premier League’s associated party transaction rules, one fact was undeniable: shareholder loans have now joined APT, PSR and FFP in the lexicon of football fans. City’s lawyers argued that if their sponsorship deals with Abu Dhabi entities such as Etihad [...]
Has Fifa wildly overestimated the value of Club World Cup media rights?

October 11, 2024

Was Fifa too hasty in rejecting Apple’s reported $1bn (£760m) offer for media rights to next summer’s inaugural beefed-up Club World Cup? That is a question football’s governing body may have to ask itself as time ticks down towards the new 32-team tournament in the US next summer. With only eight months to go until [...]

Why HMRC is huge Premier League transfer window tax headache

Why HMRC is huge Premier League transfer window tax headache

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