* By Ian Herbert 5 September 2014 Why didn’t Manchester City buy Radamel Falcao? It’s one of the unexplained mysteries of the transfer market. They admire him. They would have leapt at the chance of buying him last summer. And now they go into the season with only three strikers, after letting Alvaro Negredo leave […]

By Steven Slayford 2 July 2013 The NBA’s salary cap is well known but the league’s luxury tax is a less familiar beast – and one with potentially significant repercussions for many teams next season. The NBA salary cap states that each team is only allowed to spend a league-set amount on wages, that number was […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 14 September 2012 Manchester City have announced new details about their world-class academy ‘campus’, which is spread over 80 acres, believed to be costing £100m, and is scheduled to be open for the 2014-15 season. The facility will be built by BAM construction, described as […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 4 December 2011 Officials from six Premier League clubs made discreet separate trips to Uefa headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland over the past five days to lay the groundwork for a ‘dry run’ test of Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations, Sportingintelligence can reveal. Senior finance figures […]

By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 22 November 2011 Manchester City’s accounts for 2010-11, which were published last week and showed a world record annual loss for a football club of £194.9m, also revealed that City had net transfer spend of £53.6m over the summer. That was net outlay on Sergio […]

* . . . which accompanies this piece. NB: this article has been amended on 5 Feb to reflect an earlier error in calculations. Season 2011-12: Club X loses £101m. Season 2012-13: Club X loses £39m. Club X is monitored for first Uefa FFP monitoring period, 2011-12 and 2012-13. All other things are equal and […]

By Nick Harris 1 February 2011 Chelsea’s bullishness that they won’t immediately fall foul of Uefa’s imminent Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules is because they will be able to ‘write off’ a huge chunk of their wage bill in the scheme’s early years, sportingintelligence can reveal. [NB: to clarify ‘early years’, this means written-off wages […]

By Dr Tom Markham 21 August 2015 Manchester United are by far the most valuable football club in England, worth £1.848 billion, and the only other club worth more than £1bn is Arsenal, at £1.118bn. By ‘worth’, the definition is market value, using a fixed set of financial criteria – hard economic data – to look at what they earn and […]

* By Alex Miller                                                                   Follow Alex on Twitter @AlexMiller73 22 July 2014 Despite Premier League clubs collecting massively enhanced payments last season, […]

* EUROPE’S major leagues delivered a string of titles by procession in Spring 2013 as a group of the biggest, richest clubs across the continent romped to runaway victories. Most leagues have always had one or two dominant clubs but is there something else afoot now? And what if anything does that say about the […]