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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Fifa strengthens Saudi ties as PIF joins Club World Cup sponsors

June 6, 2025

Fifa has further strengthened its ties with Saudi Arabia after its Public Investment Fund (PIF) agreed a long-term commercial partnership beginning with this month’s Club World Cup. PIF has become the eighth sponsor of the revamped tournament, joining global brands Visa, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Hisense, Lenovo, Budweiser and Qatar Airways. Beyond that, the partnership [...]
LTA pledges equal prize money at Queen’s Club by 2029

June 5, 2025

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has pledged to award equal prize money to men and women at its events at Queen’s Club and Eastbourne by 2029. A women’s tournament has been added to the HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club, which begins next week, and will offer prize money totalling $1.4m (£1m). That is the highest [...]
Rob Cross: Darts star banned as director over unpaid tax of £450,000

June 5, 2025

Darts star Rob Cross has been banned from being a company director for five years after his company failed to pay almost half a million pounds in tax. Cross, who won the World Championship in 2018 and is one of the leading names on the elite PDC tour, owed HMRC £465,403 when his company went [...]
Jonny Brownlee on mixing business with pleasure in Supertri

June 5, 2025

Jonny Brownlee credits Supertri with saving his career and now the Olympic gold medallist is hoping the super-sprint triathlon series can ensure he still has one after hanging up his tri suit. The 35-year-old and brother Alistair own and manage a team – Brownlee Racing, featuring leading Brits including Alex Yee, Beth Potter and Jess [...]
Man City bolster Club World Cup bid with £46m Reijnders deal

June 4, 2025

Manchester City have moved to strengthen their bid for the Club World Cup by agreeing a deal to sign Netherlands midfielder Tijjani Reijnders from AC Milan for £46m. Reijnders was recently named midfielder of the season in Serie A after scoring a career-best 15 goals in 54 matches, despite Milan only finishing eighth in the [...]
Spending Review: Athletes urge Starmer and Reeves to back London 2029 bid

June 4, 2025

Keely Hodgkinson, Sir Mo Farah and Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill are among more than 100 athletes who have urged the government to back London’s bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships in its Spending Review. The plea for funding, in an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, comes ahead of Chancellor Rachel [...]
Chelsea Sancho snub set to cost Manchester United £35m

June 3, 2025

Chelsea have opted to pay a £5m penalty fee rather than make England winger Jadon Sancho’s loan move from Manchester United permanent this summer. Sancho scored five goals and contributed 10 assists in 41 appearances for the Blues but failed to establish himself as a regular starter in the Premier League. Chelsea would have had [...]
Padel: Britain now third biggest market in world for rising racquet sport

June 3, 2025

Britain is now one of the top three padel markets in the world by revenue, fuelled by new club openings and ever-increasing demand for court bookings. Data from racquet sports booking app Playtomic reveals that only clubs in the long-established hotspots of Spain and Italy generate more money than those in Britain. In addition, Britain [...]
Chelsea named top talent producers in Premier League

June 2, 2025

Chelsea may have spent more than £1bn on transfers since the Todd Boehly-Clearlake takeover but the club’s talent factory leads the way in producing Premier League players. The famed Cobham academy was responsible for more players and more minutes played than any other in the top division last season, underlining the value of developing homegrown [...]
Verstappen admits Russell crash shouldn’t have happened

June 2, 2025

Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen has accepted that his crash into Mercedes rival George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix “was not right and shouldn’t have happened”. The hot-headed Dutchman veered into Russell with two laps remaining, earning a 10-second penalty which demoted him from fifth to 10th and three penalty points which leave [...]

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