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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Emma Raducanu: British tennis sensation set to be inundated with sponsor offers following fairytale run at the US Open

September 10, 2021

Emma Raducanu’s fairytale run at the US Open has not only made her the new darling of British tennis but also among the hottest properties in sport for sponsors. The 18-year-old from Bromley could become the first Englishwoman to win a Grand Slam since Virginia Wade in 1977 when she faces fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez [...]
Barcelona suffer another financial blow with Rakuten set to pull plug on €30m-a-year shirt sponsorship

September 9, 2021

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten is to end its €30m-a-year sponsorship of Barcelona at the end of the season, according to reports. The development is another blow for the beleaguered titans of Spanish football, who are more than £1bn in debt and lost star player Lionel Messi this summer. Rakuten has been the main shirt sponsor [...]
Usain Bolt: I considered athletics comeback for Tokyo 2020 Olympics but my coach talked me out of it

September 9, 2021

World’s fastest man Usain Bolt has revealed that he was talked out of making a comeback at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Bolt, who won the men’s 100m and 200m titles three Games in a row, bowed out from athletics after the 2017 World Championships in London. But the Jamaican says he had second thoughts in [...]
Paris Saint-Germain hit back at LaLiga boss Javier Tebas in increasingly bitter war of words with Spanish football league chief

September 8, 2021

Paris Saint-Germain have hit back at LaLiga boss Javier Tebas after he labelled them “enemies” and “as dangerous as the European Super League”. The outspoken Spanish league chief, a long-standing critic of the spending of PSG and Manchester City, also derided the French club’s signing of Lionel Messi at the age of 34. In a [...]
England Men’s summer 2022 cricket schedule confirmed: New Zealand Test series, white-ball July and South Africa in all formats

September 8, 2021

England cricket chiefs have confirmed the men’s team’s schedule for next summer, which will begin with a three-Test series against world champions New Zealand. They will then play one-day and Twenty20 series against India and South Africa in July before another three-Test series with the Proteas in August and September. “It has been a scintillating [...]
Tickets go on sale for Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games – including track cycling in London

September 8, 2021

Tickets for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, the biggest multi-sport event to be held in Britain since the Olympics, have gone on sale today. Prices start at £15 for adults and £8 for children, with more than 1m seats being offered at £22 or less. London’s Lee Valley Velopark is staging the track cycling events [...]
Manchester City and Leeds United chiefs hit back at Fifa bid for more frequent World Cups

September 8, 2021

Manchester City and Leeds United chiefs have joined the chorus of opposition towards Fifa’s plans to stage the World Cup every other year. City chief executive Ferran Soriano told The Times: “There is no space [in the calendar] for anything. No room at all. The players cannot play more games, for sure.” Leeds chairman Andrea [...]
Financial Fair Play is not about making football more competitive, says one of the executives behind the new rules

September 7, 2021

Proposed changes to European football’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules will not address concerns about competitive balance, says one of the executives involved. New regulations involving a salary cap and luxury tax are set to replace the current, 10-year-old framework, which is loosely based on breaking even. Economists and legal experts have warned that the [...]
World 12s: Plans unveiled for rugby union’s £250m answer to the Indian Premier League, featuring eight franchises playing 12-a-side, 30-minute matches

September 7, 2021

Some of rugby union’s biggest names have announced plans to launch a new 12-a-side tournament, World 12s, in England next year. The competition would feature eight franchise teams playing in 30-minute matches over three consecutive weekends in August and September. World 12s chairman Ian Ritchie, the former head of the Rugby Football Union and Premiership [...]
Emma Raducanu to enter world top 75 following dream run at US Open – and British No1 ranking is next in teenager’s sights

September 7, 2021

British tennis sensation Emma Raducanu is guaranteed to reach the top 75 of the women’s rankings for the first time as a result of her dream run at the US Open. The 18-year-old from Bromley beat American Shelby Rogers on Monday night to reach the quarter-finals at Flushing Meadows, where she is yet to even [...]

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