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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Rangers won’t become feeder club to Leeds if 49ers buy them, says Marathe

February 26, 2025

Leeds United chairman Paraag Marathe has insisted that Rangers will not become a feeder club if their owners, 49ers Enterprises, complete a takeover of the Scottish giants. The US group, an offshoot of NFL team the San Francisco 49ers, is reported to be in advanced talks about buying a 51 per cent stake in Rangers [...]
Premier League ‘would need 12m UK subscribers to justify Premflix’

February 26, 2025

The Premier League has been told it would need more than 12m UK subscribers paying £20 a month to justify launching its own streaming service, dubbed “Premflix”. English football’s top division generates around £3.5bn a year from selling its media rights, with around half of that coming from its UK deals with Sky and TNT [...]
Sky accuses Amazon of failing to prevent piracy on Fire Sticks

February 26, 2025

Sky has accused Amazon of not doing enough to prevent the piracy of its sports rights via “jailbroken” Fire Sticks. Sky’s group chief operating officer Nick Herm said that illegal viewing of its subscription content, which includes Premier League football, Formula 1 and boxing, was costing “hundreds of millions of dollars” and that “about half” [...]
Marty Sheargold: Australian radio DJ gets chop after Matildas ‘penis’ jibe

February 26, 2025

Australian radio presenter Marty Sheargold has departed station Triple M after he claimed he’d prefer to impale his genitals than watch the women’s national football team, the Matildas. Shock-jock Sheargold told listeners of his show on Monday that he “would rather hammer a nail through the head of [his] penis” than watch the Matildas and [...]
Kenyon lauds ‘passionate’ Abramovich and appears to aim barb at Glazers

February 25, 2025

Former Manchester United and Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has hailed the Stamford Bridge tenure of Roman Abramovich and appeared to draw unflattering comparisons with current Old Trafford owners the Glazers. Kenyon helped turn United into champions of Europe and football’s first commercial powerhouse during a six-year spell that ended in 2003, when Abramovich hired [...]
Cadillac Formula 1 team to follow Chelsea blueprint, say owners

February 25, 2025

The Cadillac Formula 1 team will “apply the same transformative growth mindset” seen at sister outfit Chelsea FC as they gear up for their historic entry to the grid next year. Cadillac F1 are majority owned by TWG Global, the investment vehicle of Chelsea part-owner Mark Walter, a long-time business partner of the club’s chairman [...]
Afghanistan coach Trott admits ‘concern’ about gender apartheid

February 25, 2025

Afghanistan cricket coach Jonathan Trott admits he is “concerned” by the gender apartheid enforced by the Taliban regime which has led to calls for an England boycott. The England and Wales Cricket Board rejected a plea from nearly 200 UK politicians to refuse to play Afghanistan at the men’s Champions Trophy on Wednesday in Pakistan. [...]
Mo Salah’s new Liverpool contract is getting more expensive, says Slot

February 25, 2025

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has admitted that Mohamed Salah’s blistering form is making him even more expensive for the club to tie to a new contract this summer. Salah will be a free agent in June, when he will be 33, and Liverpool’s reluctance to give big deals to over-30s could play into the hands [...]
Finca Cortesin in the Costa del Sol: Golf meets five star luxury

February 24, 2025

Anyone who has visited southern Spain will know there is much more to the region than the tackier excesses of the Costa del Sol. For culture there is Moorish-steeped Malaga; Mijas and Estepona retain traditional white-washed Andalusian charm; while even Marbella has an enchanting old town a world away from the beach clubs. Like the [...]
Man Utd job losses could hit 450 as Ratcliffe swings axe again

February 24, 2025

Manchester United have confirmed plans to make up to another 200 redundancies in a bid to arrest five years of continuous losses at the 20-time English champions. It comes just months after Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos slashed 250 jobs at Old Trafford and could take the total number of redundancies to 450 since he [...]

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