By Nick Harris 20 August 2010 Confusion continues to surround the putative bid for Liverpool by the New York-based businessman, Kenny Huang, after reports that the former Chelsea chief executive, Peter Kenyon, has been acting as an advisor to Mr Huang for several months. There have also been mixed reports about the ongoing involvement (or […]

By Nick Harris 19 August 2010 Ahsan Ali Syed, the Bahrain-based Indian businessman who says he wants to buy Blackburn Rovers, describes himself in his company’s 2009 annual report as a “Dreamer, Visionary, Navigator and Leader”. That report, for Western Gulf Advisory AG, which describes itself as “a self-sustaining investment and asset management company”, can […]

By Pete Wilson 19 August 2010 David Beckham has put Fabio Capello’s unilateral ending of his England career behind him to launch the ‘Back the Bid week’, starting today, in support of England’s bid to stage the 2018 World Cup. Fifa’s inspection team arrives in England next week to assess facilities that will be used […]

By Nick Harris 18 August 2010 A new scheme that encourages Arsenal fans to buy a stake in the club in return for influence in decisions makes the prospect of a takeover by any of Arsenal’s current major shareholders unlikely for the foreseeable future. The Arsenal Fanshare plan will allow supporters to buy a stake […]

By Nick Harris 17 August 2010 Liverpool’s status as one of football’s enduring global powers remains undiminished despite the club’s recent travails, according to the club’s commercial director, Ian Ayre. In an interview with the latest edition of FC Business magazine – the industry publication for football in the UK – Ayre is bullish about […]

By Nick Harris 16 August 2010 Arsenal were the most extreme example of a “foreign staffed” football club in any of Europe’s five major leagues last season, with non-English players accounting for 93.3 per cent of minutes played by the Gunners. This was among the headline findings in the fifth annual Review of the European […]

By Nick Harris 15 August 2010 Liverpool’s managing director, Christian Purslow, has said this morning that “we’ve just received some written bids” for the club, but when asked a specific question about whether any bidder had provided proof of funding, he replied: “Not yet.” Purslow, talking in a wide-ranging interview with Gary Richardson on the […]

By Nick Harris 13 August 2010 Liverpool have yet to identify a front-running bidder to buy the club from Tom Hicks and George Gillett, with an official “holding position” statement released this evening on Liverpool’s official website. The statement says: “The Liverpool FC Board has reviewed a number of proposed bids for the club at […]

By Brian Sears 13 August 2010 Manchester United have been by far the most successful team in the Premier League’s 18 complete seasons to date, as can be seen today in our all-time table in the features section. United have won 1,494 points from 696 games for an average of 2.15 points per game, a […]

By Nick Harris 13 August 2010 Wolverhampton Wanderers’ main shirt sponsorship for the 2010-11 Premier League season with the online gambling firm Sportingbet is worth £1.1m to the club, a year-on-year rise of £200,000 from last season’s £900,000, the club’s head of marketing and communications, Matt Grayson, has informed sportingintelligence today. In an article about […]