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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Voxa: Pettersen launches agency and signs fellow Solheim Cup icon Ciganda

February 10, 2025

Former Solheim Cup captain Suzann Pettersen has made European golf star Carlota Ciganda one of the first signings to her new athlete management agency Voxa. Spaniard Ciganda, 34, is joined in the Voxa stable by Chinese world No3 Ruoning Yin, 22, and three more national No1s, Mexican Gaby Lopez, 31, Shannon Tan of Singapore, 20, [...]
IOC in dock over boxing gender row as IBA takes Trump-inspired legal action

February 10, 2025

The International Boxing Association (IBA) has launched legal action against the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over its inclusion of gender eligibility row boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting at the Paris 2024 Games. Citing President Trump’s recent order banning trans athletes from women’s sport, the IBA said it was filing official complaints with the attorney [...]
Why Rennes and Como were the surprise spenders in January transfer window

February 8, 2025

Manchester City may have led the way in England but the biggest January transfer window spenders in other major European leagues were not the usual suspects. In France it was Rennes who spent the most, eclipsing mega-rich Paris Saint-Germain despite the champions splashing £58m on Napoli’s twinkle-toed Georgia winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. Rennes invested £62m on [...]
Nandy rejects football regulator pay fears: ‘£130k is more than reasonable’

February 7, 2025

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy has dismissed concerns that the incoming football regulator’s effectiveness will be inhibited by more modest public sector pay. Recruitment for the regulator’s first chair is under way but fears have been raised that the calibre of candidate could be restricted by the salary of £130,000 for the part-time role. While still [...]
LIV Golf 2025: The five big changes to the tour during the off season

February 6, 2025

LIV Golf returns for its fourth season this weekend in Riyadh on arguably its strongest footing ever, having outlasted three British prime ministers, the reign of our longest-serving monarch and the Biden administration. There may not have been any blockbuster signings like that of Major winner Jon Rahm 12 months ago, but there is plenty [...]
Meta fact-checking U-turn probed over Ronaldo Facebook deepfake scam

February 6, 2025

Meta’s decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram is under review after Brazilian football legend Ronaldo Nazario was caught up in a deepfake scam. The company’s oversight board has launched an investigation after Meta initially rejected calls to remove a post that used an AI-manipulated video of Ronaldo to promote a gambling app. Meta [...]
NFL ‘running scared’ of Trump and Musk ahead of Super Bowl with Bluesky ban

February 6, 2025

The NFL risks alienating fans and accusations of “running scared” from Donald Trump and Elon Musk ahead of Super Bowl LIX after it banned teams from posting on X rival Bluesky, say industry watchers. Sunday’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans, the climax to the NFL season, is set [...]
EFL board set to discuss National League promotion demand

February 5, 2025

The EFL board will meet on Thursday amid renewed pressure from the entire National League to increase the number of promotion places from two to three. All 72 National League clubs, which represent the fifth and sixth tiers of English football, wrote to the EFL this week demanding the increase with immediate effect. The issue [...]
Cristiano Ronaldo wants to own ‘several football clubs’

February 5, 2025

Cristiano Ronaldo wants to take his prolific streak into the boardroom when he retires from playing football by owning a multi-club network. Ronaldo shows no sign of hanging up his boots as he turns 40 today, with the forward still breaking goalscoring records for Portugal and Al Nassr in the Saudi Pro League. But the [...]
Rocket Padel banks on ‘tenfold’ growth ahead of London expansion

February 5, 2025

Britain’s booming number of padel players can grow tenfold because the country has the “perfect ingredients”, says the founder of Rocket Padel as the operator prepares to open a new club in Beckton, east London. The new site, due to open in April, will be the Scandinavian brand’s seventh club worldwide and its fourth in [...]

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