The first moves in the coaching carousel that will determine what teams rule Europe for the next five years have been made with Carlo Ancelotti set to replace Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich next season. Next year will be unprecedented in football as five of the six richest clubs in the world could be looking […]
Man City
It’s a stat from Sporting Intelligence that will make Manchester United CEO Ed Woodward throw up his cornflakes this morning as it highlights how bad United’s exit from the Champions League is. In perhaps a sad indictment about the state of modern football, 9 of the 10 richest clubs who began the Champions League have […]
Manchester City have announced that a Chinese consortium is investing £265 million to buy a 13% stake in the club’s patent company, in a deal that values the business at $3 billion, which puts it on par with rivals Manchester United who are valued at $3.05 billion. Incredibly, Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin […]
Real Madrid star Karim Benzema has been charged with conspiracy to blackmail and participating in a criminal group as part of an investigation over a sex tape involving France international teammate Mathieu Valbuena. A statement from the Versailles Prosecutors Office said the alleged crimes for which he was being investigated could carry a prison sentence […]
Real Madrid and Manchester City qualified for the Champions League knock-out stage with victories over Paris Saint-Germain and Sevilla respectively on Tuesday. It was an unconvincing performance by Real Madrid who beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 on Tuesday at the Santiago Bernabéu. With the win, Real surpassed Barcelona’s record of 19 consecutive matches without a loss […]
If Bayern Munich CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge was worried about the Premier League’s spending power last summer, wait to he see what they do next year. Thanks to the global appeal of the Premier League, and the negotiating skills of Richard Scudamore, Premier League clubs are set to see the money they receive from their UK […]
According to the Daily Mail, Bayern Munich boss Pep Guardiola is ready to follow in Jurgen Klopp’s footsteps and move to the Premier League next season. And no, he does not want to manage West Ham in the Olympic Stadium. Guardiola’s current contract at Bayern expires at the end of the season and with the […]
Uefa has announced that the 32 clubs that competed in the Champions League last season shared almost €988m in payments from UEFA, an increase of €36m from the 2013/14 season. Usually the winner takes home the lions share of the money but that was not the case last season as runners-up Juventus were the big […]