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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Chelsea star Raheem Sterling’s fashion brand 1692 struck off after £1m losses

November 5, 2025

England and Chelsea footballer Raheem Sterling’s fashion business, 1692, has been struck off after losing more than £1m in two years. Sterling co-founded the brand in May 2021, at the height of his on-field success with Manchester City and the national team. But 1692 Fashion Limited racked up losses of £675,000 in its first year [...]
Exclusive: Leicester Tigers and DCMS face scrutiny over £6m Covid loan renegotiation

November 5, 2025

Leicester Tigers and DCMS are facing questions after they altered the repayment terms of the club’s £6m Covid-19 loan to interest-only until 2028. The change, which only emerged in the Prem Rugby club’s most recent financial accounts, casts further doubt on DCMS’s chances of recouping its £474m lending to sporting and cultural bodies – raising [...]
Burnley owner ALK Capital secures £150m injection following Espanyol takeover

November 3, 2025

Burnley’s owner, Alan Pace’s ALK Capital, has attracted a further £150m injection from an early backer of its Premier League project, Dave Checketts. Checketts, who enjoyed success with Pace as president of his Major League Soccer side Real Salt Lake, has invested in ALK Capital following its takeover of Spanish club Espanyol. It is among [...]
Premier League exec steps down to lead Major League Soccer challenger competition

November 3, 2025

The Premier League is set to lose one of its top staff, chief football officer Tony Scholes, at the end of the season after he agreed to head up a challenger to Major League Soccer in the US. Scholes is to be president of a new top-tier competition to be launched in 2028 by the [...]
Kolisi, Villa and Diggins to advise CVC’s £10bn Global Sport Group

November 3, 2025

Siya Kolisi, David Villa and Skylar Diggins are to advise CVC Capital Partners’ new £10bn consolidated portfolio, Global Sport Group, which owns stakes in several major leagues. Rugby World Cup-winning South Africa captain Kolisi, former Spain striker Villa and US women’s basketball star Diggins will form an athlete advisory group as part of a partnership [...]
Gareth Southgate sticks to business and leadership and shuns football return

November 3, 2025

Sir Gareth Southgate insists he is happy to keep a return to football management on ice and focus on delivering lessons in leadership to business and wider society. Southgate walked away from the England job after eight years in 2024, having taken the team to two major finals in a spell noted for repairing the [...]
Lucas Paqueta spared fine amid mental health concerns following fixing probe

October 31, 2025

Lucas Paqueta has avoided a fine despite being found guilty of not cooperating with an FA spot-fixing investigation in part because of concerns about the West Ham star’s mental health. An independent regulatory commission said that Paqueta, who was cleared of spot-fixing earlier this year, would typically have been fined but that “the truly exceptional [...]
The Hundred: New owners relax salary rules to attract top talent

October 31, 2025

The Hundred’s new overseas investors have rung the changes for next year’s competition, confirming that an auction will replace the player draft and that franchises will have new maximum and minimum salary budgets. In moves designed to attract more top global talent to the summer white-ball cricket tournament, individual player salaries will be uncapped and [...]
Real Madrid to turn Santiago Bernabeu stadium into money-spinning Winter Wonderland

October 31, 2025

Real Madrid have hit on a novel way to maintain their status as the world’s richest football club: turning their Santiago Bernabeu stadium into a festive theme park over Christmas. From 24-31 December, during a two-week break in LaLiga’s schedule, the Spanish giants will transform the 84,000-seater arena into “a family-friendly experience filled with dazzling [...]
Roll-on the World Cup! Spain’s young guns sign deal with Old Spice

October 30, 2025

Not so long ago Old Spice was a punchline; a brand associated with a bygone era and reliant on an ageing – not to say, perishing – demographic. More recently it has tried to shake off this stuffy image, leaning into sports such as the NFL. This week made perhaps its most intriguing move yet: [...]

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