According to a new report from Sporting Intelligence, Manchester City are the best paid team in the world. Their average first-team pay is higher than anyone in the NBA, NFL or MLB. The average first-team wages at Man City are £5.2m per year, or £100,764 per week. That tops baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers whose stars […]
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Really surprising comments from Gunners chief executive Ivan Gazidis on Thursday that Arsenal have the financial capability to compete with the biggest clubs in the world on wages. Gazidis was asked directly by the press about Wayne, and whether Arsenal could afford to buy a £20m-plus star on wages of over £200,000-a-week. “Of course we […]
AS Roma Sporting director Franco Baldini has left the club by mutual consent, the Serie A side has announced. A statement from Roma, citing the club’s American president James Pallotta, said: “We thank Franco Baldini for his service to AS Roma over the past two seasons. He played an important role in the launch of […]
Everton have announced that former Wigan boss Roberto Martinez has replaced David Moyes as manager of the Toffees. Everton chairman Bill Kenwright paid Wigan £1.5 million to release Martinez from the final year of his contract and he thinks it is money well spent: “When David Moyes came to see me 11 years ago we […]
With the transfer window ready to swing into motions, some of the most impactful buys don’t cost tens of millions of pounds. WhoScored.com put together an interesting list of the best Premier League free agents based on their performances last season. Interestingly, the club with the most players on the list is Fulham with four. […]
As the summer transfer window opens, whoscored.com put together a team of the worst Premier League signings from last summer. Not surprisingly, relegated QPR and Reading are well represented with five players combined. One name that jumps out is Stoke City’s Charlie Adam. What has happened to him? When he was playing under Ian Holloway […]
One of former Man City manager Roberto Mancini’s criticism’s of the club last season, was that City was not active enough in the early part of the summer, and as a result they missed out on De Rossi, van Persie and Hazard. Well when City name Manuel Pellegrini as their new boss in the next week, […]
Looks like someone has been whispering in Laurent Koscielny’s ear as the Arsenal defender says that he could hand in a transfer request if Arsenal fail to spend big in this summer’s transfer window. ‘I want to lift trophies and to have a winning record. I hope the club will give me the means. If […]