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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Uefa threatens Infantino with criminal complaint as Fifa row takes explosive twist

August 27, 2026

Uefa has dramatically escalated its attempts to oust Gianni Infantino by taking the first legal steps towards making a criminal complaint against the Fifa president. Lawyers for European football’s governing body have lodged a request with a US court for a raft of documents and correspondence regarding the now-abandoned World Cup sell-off that could be [...]
Saudi Arabia backs Gianni Infantino ‘at this time’ in major boost to Fifa president

August 27, 2026

Embattled Fifa president Gianni Infantino has received a major boost after Saudi Arabia, the host of the 2034 World Cup and a long-standing ally, backed his bid to stay in power. The Saudi Arabian Football Federation had stayed conspicuously silent since Infantino’s position was plunged into crisis by revelations that he was planning to partly [...]
Jamie Carragher: HMRC petitions for Sky Sports star to be declared bankrupt

August 27, 2026

HMRC has filed a petition seeking to have Sky Sports pundit and former England footballer Jamie Carragher declared bankrupt over an unpaid tax bill. The case was filed against James Lee Duncan Carragher by solicitors representing HMRC at the High Court in London yesterday, filings show. The 48-year-old is one of the faces of Sky [...]
Uefa to call off Fifa boycott and step up talks over Infantino at Champions League draw

August 26, 2026

Uefa will use a gathering of continental chiefs for tomorrow’s Champions League draw to call off its boycott of Fifa events and discuss next moves in its bid to oust Gianni Infantino. Europe’s governing body will hold a meeting with its executive committee and heads of national FAs in Monaco ahead of the draw for [...]
International Swimming League set to make comeback in London this year

August 26, 2026

London is to host the return of the International Swimming League (ISL), with a lucrative one-night All-Star Match set to take place at the Aquatics Centre in December. The team series ran for three seasons and sparked a civil war between swimmers including Britain’s Adam Peaty and the sport’s governing body, but has been on [...]
You cannot be serious! Smashed John McEnroe racket set to be sold at auction

August 26, 2026

A tennis racket smashed by John McEnroe during one of his famous fits of rage is going under the hammer in an auction of sports memorabilia next month. The wooden-framed Dunlop Maxfly Fort mangled by McEnroe dates back to his heyday in the early 1980s, when the combustible American won multiple Wimbledon and US Open [...]
Jordan-backed Sportradar accused of hiding from justice in monopoly row with rival

August 26, 2026

Michael Jordan-backed betting data giant Sportradar has been accused of trying to “shield itself from US justice and public scrutiny” in a multi-million-dollar legal row with competitor Altenar. Lawyers for Altenar told a US federal court that Sportradar’s request to move the dispute to private arbitration in Switzerland, where its head office is located, should [...]
Why Manchester City’s £86m Bouaddi signing should ring alarm bells in French football

August 25, 2026

Manchester City’s €100m (£86m) signing of Lille midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi is more than just another example of a super-rich European giant hoovering up a promising talent. It is also the latest sign of French football’s talent drain, a phenomenon fuelled by the Premier League’s ever-growing spending power and the financial struggles of most of Ligue [...]
Bayern Munich old boys in takeover of Portuguese top-flight club

August 25, 2026

Former Bayern Munich footballers Thomas Muller, Mats Hummels, Lucas Hernandez and Yann Sommer have become part-owners of Portuguese top-flight club Estrela Amadora. The quartet are part of a majority takeover of the Lisbon-based outfit fronted by Johannes Mosmang, a former player liaison at German giants Bayern. The €40m deal for 90 per cent of Estrela [...]
Spurs take outlay to £320m with Savinho deal but still aren’t England’s biggest spenders

August 25, 2026

Tottenham Hotspur have taken their summer spending past the £300m mark by completing the signing of winger Savinho from Manchester City. The Brazilian is the fourth player to join Spurs for a fee of more than £50m since the end of last season, following Sandro Tonali, Mateus Fernandes and Jan Paul van Hecke. They have [...]

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