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From £200m Messi to £20m Lukaku: Europe’s 60 most valuable players this summer

By Nick Harris 17 June 2013 There are 60 footballers in the ‘Big 5’ leagues of Europe who each carry a market value of £20m-plus this summer. The world’s best and most expensive player is Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, whose ‘guide price’ is between €217m and...

Newcastle hit rock bottom (of the 2012-13 injuries league)

By Alex Miller 17 June 2013 Newcastle United have shocked their fans by appointing Joe Kinnear as director of football but new figures suggest that it is their medical department that could use some reinforcement. New figures show Newcastle had the worst injury record in...

REVEALED: Manchester City rise to top of global pay charts, Dodgers soar to challenge

By Nick Harris 11 June 2013 Manchester City are the best paid team in global sport according to Sportingintelligence’s Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for 2013, compiled in association with ESPN The Magazine and published this week to coincide with The Magazine’s ‘Money Issue’ (cover...

EXCLUSIVE: The 37 English professional football clubs offering zero pay for real jobs

By Steve Menary 24 May 2013 More than a third of the football clubs across the Premier and Football League have used the taxpayer-funded website at UK Sport to advertise jobs offering no pay. That shocking statistic was unearthed for Sportingintelligence via a Freedom of Information (FoI) enquiry that...

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