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Deputy Sports Editor - City AM Matt Hardy is the City AM Deputy Sports Editor with a specialism in the business of sport. He covers the likes of rugby, cricket, sporting investment and venture capital funds; while also being across golf, cricket, and the politics of sport.

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Manchester United record most expensive squad EVER at £1.2bn, Uefa report

February 14, 2024

The Manchester United squad that concluded the 2022-23 season was the most expensively-assembled team on record, a new report revealed this morning. An official Uefa document, titled European Club Finance and Investment Landscape Report, says the Old Trafford club’s 2023 financial year-end squad cost a collective €1.42bn (£1.21bn), which topples the previous record of €1.33bn [...]
Mapletoft: Pathways must be key in upcoming rugby recalibration

February 14, 2024

England under-20 head coach Mark Mapletoft has issued a rallying call to rugby chiefs to recalibrate the game and prioritise pathways to improve the national team when stakeholders decide on the future of the sport. The Professional Game Agreement was last officially signed eight years ago and is due for renewal in July this year. [...]
Chelsea approach Lyon and Bompastor amid Hayes replacement search

February 14, 2024

Chelsea Women have reportedly approached Lyon’s Sonia Bompastor as a potential replacement for Emma Hayes. Hayes will leave the Blues at the end of the season to take up a role with the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT). Bompastor has won the Champions League as both a player and a manager and is the [...]
Legal take: What we, and cricket, can learn from Rehan Ahmed visa saga

February 14, 2024

England begin the third of five Tests against India in Rajkot tomorrow. But after issues with the visa of Shoaib Bashir before the first Test in Hyderabad, England have again come up against issues with entering the county. This time, though, it’s leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed. Dipesh Shah, Head of Corporate Immigration at JMW Solicitors breaks [...]
Le Tissier, Hartson and Fowler given ticking off by advertising watchdog over Supreme CBD social media ads

February 14, 2024

Matt Le Tissier, John Hartson and Anthony Fowler have been rapped by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over social media posts promoting CBD products. The advertising watchdog upheld complaints relating to posts about Supreme CBD by the trio of former sports stars for failing to disclose they were advertisements and “making health claims about a [...]
Neil Barnes: Netflix, coaching Italy, Eddie Jones and Six Nations

February 13, 2024

When you meet ex-Italy assistant coach Neil Barnes in Six Nations rugby’s Netflix drama Full Contact, his bluntness scares the bejesus out of you. “For F**k’s sake”, “hit that p***k” and “give the ball to Capu-whatever-his-name-is [Ange Capuozzo], he’s f*****g quick” were just some of the wholesome proverbs that the non-Italian speaking New Zealander utters. [...]
Premier League approve 25 per cent Sir Jim Ratcliffe stake in Manchester United

February 13, 2024

The Premier League has approved Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s acquisition of a 25 per cent stake in Manchester United. The deal had been announced in December 2023 and involved the British billionaire behind Ineos taking a quarter of the club under his ownership as well as the day to day operational running of the Old Trafford [...]
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson to coach Liverpool next month

February 13, 2024

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson will be part of a Liverpool Legends coaching team against Ajax next month. He will join Ian Rush, John Barnes and John Aldridge in the Reds’ charity dugout a month after the 75-year-old announced that he had terminal cancer and less than a year to live. He later said that [...]
Snooker heads to Saudi Arabia with Kingdom eyeing fourth Major

February 13, 2024

Snooker has become the latest sport to head to the Middle East with confirmation of a 10-year deal which will see Saudi Arabia host the unofficial “fourth Major” of snooker. A prize fund of £2m will be on offer in Riyadh in August while the World Pool Championships will head to the Kingdom in June. [...]
Guardiola: Back to business for Man City against starving Copenhagen

February 12, 2024

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has insisted that it’s “back to business” for the defending champions as they take on a “starving and hungry” Copenhagen, who have not played a competitive match in two months, in the Champions League Round of 16 tomorrow. City face their Danish opposition knowing Copenhagen pose dangers that aided in [...]

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