Sporting Lisbon president Bruno de Carvalho has called for action over offshore funds with financial stakes in football players.
Gareth Bale’s fabulous form for Spurs has made him a prime target for big European clubs
For Manchester City fans, it took 44 years to win a championship but there will be obstacles in their attempts to triumph away, writes David Conn.
After a series of corruption scandals that has beset Fifa in recent months, its re-elected president, Sepp Blatter, promised to implement reforms.
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/ 22 January 2010
As the troubled football club drowns in debt, it is now clear the Glazers have reaped a fortune, writes David Conn.
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/ 26 January 2007
Members of the Football League’s board have held meetings with the Premier League’s chief executive, Richard Scudamore, to seek a fairer distribution of the Premiership’s booming TV money which, following the £625-million secured last week for overseas rights, will total £2,7-billion over three years from next season.
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/ 15 December 2006
If we were not becoming weirdly accustomed to checking Forbes’s billionaires list whenever a football club announces take-over talks, it would feel more bizarre, freakish even, to find Liverpool arguing they are a perfect fit for the investment vehicle of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai.
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/ 24 November 2006
West Ham, that quintessential East End working-class football institution, is to be taken over by an Icelandic consortium and become the fifth Premiership club after Chelsea, Manchester United, Portsmouth and Aston Villa to be majority owned by a foreign investor.
The offices at the top of a converted warehouse in the Edinburgh port of Leith are a bit of a squeeze. As he talks, Mel Young’s head seems almost in the skylight, but there is no containing the boundless plans for his current project, the Homeless World Cup.
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/ 24 February 2006
With weekday coaching sessions for boys aged eight to 16, matches against other clubs at the weekends and plenty going on in the school holidays, Leeds Road playing fields Huddersfield Town is a brisk, professional place — and, like all of the Football League’s academies and centres of excellence, currently a worried one, too.