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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Cheque mates: Harry Kane and Magnus Carlsen top up stakes in football brand

October 10, 2024

England captain Harry Kane and chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen have taken part in a $100m funding round for the company behind the football-themed entertainment and dining venue Toca Social. The move will help Toca Football launch further sites in London, where it already has a venue at the O2, as well as Paris, Mexico and [...]
Gareth Southgate reveals stance on Manchester United job

October 10, 2024

If Manchester United chiefs decide to sack Erik ten Hag before the end of the season they can forget about hiring Gareth Southgate to replace him. The former England head coach, who stepped down in the summer, said today that he has no intention of returning to football management “in the next year”. “Sometimes when [...]
‘Everything has a beginning and an end’: Rafael Nadal announces retirement

October 10, 2024

King of Clay and 22-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal has announced his retirement from tennis at the age of 38. Nadal won the French Open a record 14 times and is second only to Novak Djokovic for most Grand Slams. He will play his last matches at next month’s Davis Cup Finals in Malaga, [...]
Line judges out as Wimbledon chiefs ring the changes

October 9, 2024

The technology will be used for “out” and “fault” calls from next year’s tournament, including in qualifying.
Root tipped to take world record after breaking Cook’s England Test run tally

October 9, 2024

Joe Root has been tipped to overhaul Sachin Tendulkar as Test cricket’s all-time highest run-scorer after he surpassed Sir Alastair Cook’s England record. Root passed his former captain Cook’s mark of 12,472 runs in the morning session of the third day of England’s first Test against Pakistan in Multan on Wednesday. That still leaves him [...]
‘Together we can discover what is possible’: Jurgen Klopp takes new job

October 9, 2024

Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says he “could not be more excited” after he was appointed Global Head of Soccer at Red Bull’s multi-club network. Klopp, who left Liverpool in the summer after nine glorious years at the club, will start in January at the group, where he will oversee teams including RB Leipzig and [...]
Manchester City say Premier League rule is now void. Lawyers disagree

October 8, 2024

Lawyers have shot down claims by Manchester City that the Premier League’s associated party transaction (APT) rules should be considered “void” following the club’s partially successful legal challenge. In a letter to the other 19 top-flight clubs, Manchester City general counsel Simon Cliff said APT rules – designed to prevent clubs benefiting from artificially inflated [...]
IPL founder: I wanted Mick Jagger to save English cricket from The Hundred

October 8, 2024

Indian Premier League founder Lalit Modi has revealed that he earmarked Mick Jagger as a team owner in a new English cricket competition to replace The Hundred and T20 Blast. Modi says he offered the England and Wales Cricket Board £2.3bn over 20 years to buy the summer window in which The Hundred operates – [...]
US group in talks to buy Sheffield United from Saudi prince

October 8, 2024

Sheffield United are in takeover talks with an American consortium led by private equity boss Steven H Rosen. Rosen is the co-founder of Resilience Capital Partners, which mostly backs manufacturing and aerospace companies and has raised or advised on more than £500m of investments. He is leading negotiations on behalf of a US consortium with [...]
Manchester City defeat Premier League over financial rules

October 7, 2024

The Premier League has suffered another blow to its regulatory powers after Manchester City partially won a challenge to rules on associated party transactions (APT). An independent arbitration panel agreed with the current champions that some elements of the APT rules did not comply with competition and public law requirements, and that clubs should be [...]

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