What your Premier League club should do during this summer’s transfer window With the opening of the transfer window fast approaching, clubs will be well underway with their plans to improve their squads before the Premier League season returns. Telegraph Sport’s experts explain what every club needs to do this summer to improve their chances. … Read more
Cosmopolitan Bahrain is just across the border from Saudi Arabia – Getty On either side of the DJ, two statuesque women rotate around who, if you were to add their two outfits together, would have enough for one (almost) decent outfit. In front of them, waitresses whisk jeroboams of champagne and primary-colored cocktails to raucous … Read more
Al-Ittihad players celebrate victory over Al-Ahli in the Saudi Women’s Premier League – Getty Images/Jose Breton A clear line has been drawn in the desert sands of Saudi Arabia for Western critics who continue to question the morality of the state’s sporting acquisitions. Having poured billions into golf, football, F1, boxing and now tennis, the … Read more
Can a deal for Eddie Nketiah revive the market? – Getty Images/Stuart MacFarlane Six weeks ago there was widespread celebration among intermediaries when the Football Association was defeated in a court case seeking to impose a cap on fees for brokering transfer deals. Nine days in January and agents aren’t really making any money: it … Read more
Sheikh Mansour will certainly be watching the action in Jeddah with a keen eye – Reuters/Hamad Al Kaabi Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City side headed to Jeddah just hours after dropping a further two points in a faltering Premier League season that was interrupted by the small matter of an attempt to score for … Read more
Liverpool’s Luis Diaz scores a goal against Tottenham that is later disallowed, sparking the Premier League’s worst Var crisis yet – Reuters/Peter Cziborra Premier League referees have been given the green light to continue freelancing in far-flung countries after it emerged it played no part in Liverpool’s offside goal fiasco. The unprecedented blunder that saw … Read more
Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley leaves Premier League shareholders’ meeting on Tuesday – PA/Zac Goodwin A coalition of eight clubs, believed to be Chelsea, Manchester City, Newcastle United, Everton, Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley, defeated a temporary Premier League ban on loans between clubs with the same owners. The Premier League asked … Read more