By Pete Wilson 10 October 2010 All 20 managers in the Premier League have delivered messages backing England’s bid to stage to the 2018 World Cup ahead of the forthcoming visit by Fifa’s president Sepp Blatter to No10 Downing Street to meet Prime Minister David Cameron. The 20 managers comprise five Englishmen, four Scots, three […]

By  Nick Harris 8 October 2010 Manchester United made a record operating profit of £100.8m in 2009-10 but today posted overall losses of £83.64m (£79.63m loss on ordinary activities before taxation). The balance sheet is below. The turning of impressive profits into losses that will rattle many United fans can be explained through interest payments […]

By Brian Sears 8 October 2010 The international break highlights the multinational nature of the Premier League, with players from every continent bar Antarctica now playing in England’s elite division. There are hundreds of them, most of them full internationals. (Scroll down for table). Sportingintelligence research of league games played so far in the 2010-11 […]

By Brian Sears and Nick Harris 8 October 2010 The Premier League remains global football’s major melting pot, and research by sportingintelligence into the make-up us this season’s teams so far only emphasises the point. Among the players involved in games so far in the 2010-11 season, there have been full internationals representing 60 different […]

By Nick Harris 8 October 2010 Manchester City will struggle to avoid being banned from Europe by Uefa from 2013 onwards because of £250m already spent on transfers that still needs to be “processed” in their accounts in the next five years. Uefa has confirmed that City will not able to accelerate the “writing off” […]

By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 7 October 2010 Dr Rogan Taylor, the University of Liverpool academic who founded the ‘Share Liverpool’ scheme in 2008 to raise cash for a fan-led buyout at Anfield, has told sportingintelligence today that the potential new owners of the club, New England Sports Ventures, must […]

By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 7 October 2010 Mohamed bin Hammam, the Fifa ExCo member from Qatar and one of football’s major political figures, has said today that a lack of clear judging criteria may mean Fifa fails to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to the nations with […]

By Pete Wilson 6 October 2010 New England Sports Ventures have just released the following statement in relation to their proposed takeover of Liverpool. (More stories here). Background info provided separately on John W Henry says he “is passionate about soccer”. . . Other stories mentioning Liverpool in any capacity Liverpool takeover related stories Sportingintelligence […]

By Alex Miller at the Leaders in Football Conference, London 6 October 2010 England’s 2018 World Cup bid leader insisted today that the bid had recovered from the troubles it faced earlier in the campaign and delivered a confident assessment of the chances of winning the rights to host the tournament. Speaking at the Leaders […]

By Nick Harris 6 October 2010 Liverpool’s potential new owners, New England Sports Ventures, have proposed buying Liverpool in a £300m deal that will involve a cash injection of £240m to clear most of the club’s debt, sportingintelligence can reveal. This should alleviate some concerns among fans that the club is heading for another leveraged […]