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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European Super League 2.0: Organisers reveal plans for vastly expanded breakaway competition

February 9, 2023

European Super League organisers say they are ready to resurrect plans for the breakaway competition in an expanded format featuring as many as 80 teams. The new version of the European Super League would have multiple divisions and, unlike in its initial incarnation, no permanent members. All clubs taking part would have to qualify via [...]
Qatar interested in buying Manchester United – but bidders won’t be PSG owners Qatar Sports Investments

February 9, 2023

The Qatar Investment Authority is interested in buying a stake in Manchester United and has not ruled out a full takeover. QIA, which owns Harrods as well as significant shareholdings in Heathrow Airport and Sainsbury’s, has not made an offer for United yet. But it is one of the Qatari parties mulling an offer to [...]
FC Barcelona: Regulators tighten loophole and cut Spanish giants’ spending power

February 8, 2023

FC Barcelona are facing a setback to their on-field resurgence in the form of a crackdown on their exploitation of so-called “economic levers”, City A.M. can reveal. The Spanish club, on course to end their four-year wait for another LaLiga title, have attracted the attention of domestic and European regulators with their innovative capital-raising. Last [...]
Manchester City hire £10,000-an-hour Boris Johnson Partygate barrister to fight Premier League charges

February 8, 2023

Manchester City have hired the barrister who advised Boris Johnson over Partygate, Lord Pannick KC, to defend them against more than 100 charges brought by the Premier League. Pannick is one of the country’s leading barristers and can command fees of £10,000 an hour – equivalent to City top earner Kevin de Bruyne’s £400,000 salary, [...]
Juventus: Why Italian football’s latest scandal has sent its most successful club tumbling down Serie A – and what it means for Tottenham Hotspur and plans for a European Super League

February 7, 2023

While Manchester City are facing claims they systematically broke financial rules, Juventus have already been docked points for their own scandal in Serie A – and it might be about to get worse. Heard the one about the serial domestic champions brought to heel over allegations of systematic abuse of financial regulations? Except this isn’t [...]
Why PwC’s Global Sports Survey is good news for the owners of Manchester United and Liverpool

February 7, 2023

From Chelsea’s record-breaking spending on new footballers to debate over the future of the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup in tennis and the arbitration between legacy tours and LIV Golf, private equity and sovereign wealth have been intertwined with some of sport’s biggest stories so far in 2023. The trend is only set [...]
Why have Manchester City been charged by the Premier League? What punishment can they face? Will it affect the title race or fellow big-spenders Chelsea?

February 6, 2023

The Premier League hit Manchester City with an unprecedented volume of charges for alleged breaches of financial rules on Monday, but what happens next? What punishment could City face if found guilty? And what does it mean for the title race, and other big-spending clubs such as Chelsea? Read on to find out. What has [...]
Manchester City’s most successful era now has an asterisk after Premier League hit them with over 100 charges

February 6, 2023

Manchester City are facing the threat of expulsion from the Premier League after the English champions were accused of the biggest financial scandal in the competition’s history. City were yesterday charged with more than 100 alleged rule breaches dating back to 2009, including falsely reporting income and the salaries of players and managers, and failing [...]
Football league club chairman makes radical suggestion to help non-league teams – and believes it could get majority backing

February 6, 2023

English football is facing fresh calls to overhaul promotion and relegation and make it easier for non-league clubs to climb the men’s pyramid. The number of teams promoted from the National League to League Two should increase from two to three, argues Grimsby Town chairman Jason Stockwood. Stockwood, writing in the Guardian, says there may [...]
Full Swing: Golf’s Netflix docuseries lays bare rancour between PGA Tour and LIV Golf, but will it do a Drive to Survive?

February 6, 2023

When Netflix weighed up what to call its latest behind-the-scenes sport documentary, this time about life on golf’s PGA Tour, it plumped for the beige Full Swing. It might have been better off choosing Making A Wedge, such is the preoccupation with money that runs through the eight-part series, or Taking Out The Pin, given [...]

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