Manchester City owners City Football Group receive £265m investment from Chinese consortium December 1, 2015 City Football Group (CFG), the owner of Manchester City, has received a £265m investment from Chinese institutional investors, valuing the company at £2bn. Led by state-backed media and sport investment company China Media Capital Holdings (CMC), the Chinese consortium will take a 13 per cent shareholding in the company, following six months of negotiations. Read more: Xi Jingping visits Manchester [...]
Liverpool top of Premier League for fees spent on agents November 30, 2015 Liverpool shelled out the most in agents’ fees of any Premier League club during the past 12 months despite enduring a torrid time on the pitch which culminated in the sacking of manager Brendan Rodgers. Figures released by the Premier League yesterday showed that the Reds paid £14.3 million to agents between 1 October 2014 [...]
Chris Cairns says reputation has been scorched despite former New Zealand cricket captain being cleared of perjury and perverting course of justice November 30, 2015 Former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns believes his reputation has been “scorched” despite being acquitted of perjury and perverting the course of justice on Monday. Cairns, 45, was cleared at the end of a nine-week trial at Southwark Crown Court, having been accused of lying when he stated under oath during a 2012 libel trial [...]
Pension providers in survival of the fittest showdown as market merges, with a small number of players controlling most of the total assets under management by 2020 November 30, 2015 The market for auto-enrolment scheme providers will be dominated by a handful of major players by 2020. According to a report released today by the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School, fewer than 10 organisations will form a premier league of providers, controlling 90 per cent of total assets under management. “By 2020 several well-known [...]
Norwich City 1, Arsenal 1: Arsene Wenger defends decision to field playmaker Alexis Sanchez in injury-plagued draw November 29, 2015 Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger defended his decision to play Alexis Sanchez after the mesmeric forward hobbled off during his side’s injury-plagued draw with lowly Norwich at Carrow Road yesterday. Sanchez was a doubt for the clash after picking up a hamstring knock against Dinamo Zagreb in midweek but was on hand to set up Mesut [...]
Why Leicester could be derailed by Manchester United’s league leading defence November 28, 2015 It appears impossible to speak about Leicester this season without resorting to gushing praise for their gatecrashing of the Premier League elite. Arsene Wenger says "you cannot rule them out [of the title race]" while Jurgen Klopp marvelled: "It seems Leicester can do everything. They fly through the league at this moment and it is [...]
What got us talking this week – including the Autumn Statement, Syria, Black Friday and Arsenal’s injury crisis November 27, 2015 This week, we discovered we are all late-night, smartphone-using shopping addicts, as these three charts show. So sit back and relax, while we take you through what got us talking this week. George's marvellous medicine All eyes were on Westminster this Wednesday, as George Osborne delivered his Autumn Statement and Comprehensive Spending Review. In case you [...]
If the Premier League did Black Friday: 12 bargain buys including Manchester United’s Memphis Depay, Chelsea’s Diego Costa, Arsenal’s Mathieu Debuchy, Everton’s Aidan McGeady and others November 27, 2015 While shoppers storm supermarkets in search of the best Black Friday deals, football managers across the country are left twiddling their thumbs with the transfer and loan (as of yesterday) windows firmly shut preventing any deals from taking place between now and January. But what if football had its very own Black Friday? A one-off [...]
Tottenham v Chelsea betting odds: Improving Blues can blunt Spurs attack and take a point from White Hart Lane November 27, 2015 The visit of Chelsea used to be the stuff of nightmares for Tottenham. They failed to win a single Premier League game against the Blues at White Hart Lane in 17 matches between 1989 and 2006. Since then, however, things have changed. Chelsea have only one victory in their last nine league visits, with Tottenham [...]
Leicester City v Manchester United betting tips: Foxes’ flimsy defence could offset Vardy prowess in front of goal November 27, 2015 Who would have predicted that after 13 games, Leicester City against Manchester United would be a top-of-the-table clash? Claudio Ranieri has done a fantastic job with the Foxes, and they lead the Premier League on merit. After recording another convincing win against Newcastle in their last fixture, they will head into this fixture confident of [...]