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4 weeks ago | 
inews.co.uk | Matt Hughes
Premier League clubs struggling to comply with Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) – such as Manchester United, Newcastle and Aston Villa – will have an extra 10 days to offload players before the 30 June deadline after they unanimously agreed to open the transfer window early this summer.
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4 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Matt Hughes
Rugby Football Union CEO Bill Sweeney convincingly survived a vote of no-confidence at Twickenham on Thursday
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Matt Hughes |Louise Taylor
José Mourinho is targeting the Newcastle job if Eddie Howe leaves St James’ Park. The Fenerbahce head coach has unfinished business in the Premier League and has identified Newcastle as his best chance of another job in England, having managed Chelsea twice, Manchester United and Tottenham. Mourinho made clear his unhappiness in Turkey with an extraordinary rant after Fenerbahce’s 3-2 win over Trabzonspor last Sunday.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Matt Hughes
After 102 games in charge and two European Championship finals it is easy to forget that Gareth Southgate once turned down the England job.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Matt Hughes
Reading are the target of a takeover bid from another Chinese businessman with under-fire owner Dai Yongge renewing his attempts to sell up. i has learned that Benny Kwong, who runs a Hong Kong-based gas company that operates throughout China, has held talks with Yongge about buying the cash-strapped League One club. Kwong is the managing director of Blue River Holdings, whose businesses include the distribution of gas and property investments in China.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Matt Hughes
For an organisation under serious pressure from the Government to improve its governance procedures, the Premier League is not exactly going out of its way to promote greater transparency. Some of the most senior representatives of the top flight’s 20 clubs, including Chelsea owner Behdad Eghbali, met at a five-star hotel near Covent Garden on Thursday expecting to be told the outcome of the Premier League’s first legal battle against Manchester City, yet the case was not mentioned.
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Jul 27, 2024 | 
theland.com.au | Matt Hughes
Everything went to script for cycling star Grace Brown as she made history on Sunday morning, delivering Australia its first gold medal at the Paris Olympics.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Matt Hughes
Sadiq Khan has raised the prospect of each Premier League club losing one or two games per season Credit: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has risked antagonising football fans by backing calls for the Premier League to stage competitive games in America. US TV executives are lobbying strongly for the Premier League to switch some matches across the Atlantic in a revolutionary move that is supported by some clubs, with Liverpool chairman Tom Werner saying last month that...
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Matt Hughes
Big ReadEngland’s greatest penalty shoot-out in 34 years did not occur by happenstance. Gareth Southgate’s training sessions, substitutions and even his squad selection for this tournament have all been geared towards ensuring that the right players were on the pitch, in the right frame of mind, should a knock-out tie need to be decided from the spot.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
inews.co.uk | Matt Hughes
Given that less than a week ago Newcastle United were fearful of being docked points by the Premier League next season, and considering selling Anthony Gordon and Alexander Isak to balance the books, it has been quite a week in the North-East. The threat of being charged for breaching Profitability and Sustainabilility Sules (PSR) has been averted by the sale of Yankuba Minteh and Elliot Anderson.
