By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 A reported approach by a Chinese businessman, Jian-hua ‘Kenny’ Huang, to buy Liverpool is shrouded in confusion as sources in China and America have told sportingintelligence that he does not have the money to buy the club, that he declined to sign a confidentiality clause requested of all interested […]

By Keira Daley 2 August 2010 Arsenal may still be plagued with doubts that refuse to go away about the future of Cesc Fabregas but the club announced two positive pieces of news today – first, the signing of a potentially lucrative three-year commercial partnership with Thomson Sport, which will become the club’s official travel […]

By Nick Harris Editor, sportingintelligence 2 August 2010 . Want a chance of winning a copy of sportingintelligence’s 2010 Annual Review of Global Sports Salaries, worth £195? Just buy any product from Amazon that you wanted anyway to go into the draw. Simple! The Review is a unique document that tells you the real average […]

* Robbie Savage started life as a professional footballer with Manchester United and then, like so many others, changed career trains at Crewe. He’s never been a shrinking violet, and his candid autobiography, published this week, is typically honest. Yet as his co-writer Janine Self explains here today for the first time, ‘Sav’ is actually […]

By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 Take a sample of the world’s population and ask them to nominate their favourite sports team and many experts would expect to find football’s Barcelona or Manchester United, or baseball’s New York Yankees or basketball’s LA Lakers at the top. Yet take a global sample of an enormous magnitude, […]

By Nick Harris 2 August 2010 Cristiano Ronaldo is the world’s most popular athlete in all of global sport according to new research by sportingintelligence to coincide with Facebook reaching the landmark of 500m active users. Social networking is increasingly important in the promotion and marketing of sports stars and teams. Thus Facebook, now the […]

By Pete Wilson 31 July 2010 A four-man rowing crew, skippered by a Scotsman, Leven Brown, have completed a trans-Atlantic crossing today, coming ashore at the Scilly Isles and smashing a 114-year-old record for a US to UK rowing voyage. The crew, who have been homing in on their target over the last few days, […]

By Paul Marshall 30 July 2010 With Mo Farah and Chris Thompson’s successes this week at the European athletics championships in Spain, Britain has renewed its affair with distance running. And while Paula Radcliffe won’t be there as the marathons unfold on the streets of Barcelona this weekend, she does hope to be back in […]

By Alex Miller and Nick Harris 29 July 2010 NB: This story has been amended on 13 August 2010 due to Wolves informing us their current shirt deal is worth £1.1m for the 2010-11 season, not £400,000 as originally reported. We apologise for the earlier error. The Premier League’s 20 clubs for the 2010-11 season […]

By Alex Miller 29 July 2010 As our exclusive table below shows, the Premier League has once again defied the wider economic climate, with a raft of teams improving the terms of their shirt sponsorship deals for the coming season, to set new financial records, as this website reveals today here. Before a ball has […]