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 delays decision on controversial overseas games plans

September 11, 2025

Uefa has delayed a decision on whether to approve the Spanish and Italian top leagues’ controversial plans to play games overseas this season. LaLiga wants to stage a fixture between Barcelona and Villarreal in Miami in December, while Serie A hopes to take AC Milan’s game with Como to Perth, Australia, in February. European football’s [...]
NBA Europe working on salary cap solution, says boss Silver

September 11, 2025

The NBA is working on how it can apply its salary cap and revenue-sharing model to NBA Europe, its planned pan-continental basketball competition, says commissioner Adam Silver. The basketball league operates a soft cap on teams’ salary spending and requires high-earning franchises to subsidise their poorer counterparts, part of a largely socialist model common to [...]
Chelsea face fine and transfer ban after FA issues 74 charges

September 11, 2025

Chelsea face a large fine and a possible transfer ban after being charged with 74 breaches of agent regulations by the Football Association. The charges relate to a period spanning from 2009 to 2022, during Roman Abramovich’s ownership, and come after the club’s current regime raised the alarm about possible “incomplete financial reporting” following their [...]
Overseas games: Uefa and Fifa between rock and hard place as decision looms

September 10, 2025

Where US sport leads, Europe usually follows. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but the success of North America’s top leagues in growing – and monetising – the popularity of the NFL and NBA means executives on this side of the pond are only too keen to borrow their playbooks. Which brings us to [...]
Tottenham Hotspur take £90m loan following big-spending summer

September 10, 2025

Tottenham Hotspur have taken out a £90m loan from Australian bank Macquarie in a move that improves the heavily indebted Premier League club’s cash flow. Spurs have borrowed the sum against future media rights revenue that they are due to receive from the Premier League during the current season. Such loans are not uncommon even [...]
NBA Europe set for step forwards as league chiefs near green light

September 10, 2025

Today in a New York hotel, the NBA’s executive and representatives of all 30 teams’ ownership will hold the third of their three scheduled annual meetings. On the agenda will be various matters of concern to the world’s biggest basketball league, but the most intriguing item is its plans for the sport in Europe. Subject [...]
Jockey Club warns of Treasury ‘self-harm’ ahead of racing’s tax hike strike

September 9, 2025

The Jockey Club has warned that the government is “walking into self-harm” if it pushes ahead with a tax hike on racing bets as the industry prepares for an unprecedented strike tomorrow. For the first time in its modern history, racing has voluntarily shelved all meetings due to take place on Wednesday – at Lingfield, [...]
Manchester City and Premier League settle legal row ahead of trial

September 8, 2025

Manchester City and the Premier League have agreed a settlement that brings to an end their long-running dispute over associated party transaction (APT) rules. The dispute was set to go to trial as part of an arbitration process next month, following a legal challenge to revised APT rules launched by the club in January. As [...]
Great North Run chiefs sorry for putting Sunderland not Newcastle on medals

September 8, 2025

It wasn’t just the competitors left with red faces at yesterday’s Great North Run after organisers were forced to apologise for depicting Sunderland instead of Newcastle on medals. Many of the 60,000 entrants were quick to point out the mistake, which also appeared on finishers’ T-shirts at the popular half-marathon, and Great Run Company chiefs [...]
Carlos Alcaraz passes $50m prize money milestone with US Open win

September 8, 2025

Tennis star Carlos Alcaraz has surpassed $50m in career prize money at the age of 22 after winning the men’s singles at the US Open on Sunday. Alcaraz beat Jannik Sinner 6-2 3-6 6-1 6-4 in New York to win the title for a second time and reclaim the world No1 ranking from his Italian [...]

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