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Premier League: I will struggle to sell Everton, admits Keith Harris

Keith Harris, the merchant banker who has orchestrated the takeovers of five Premier League clubs, said yesterday that he is making "no progress at all" with finding a buyer for Everton, because the club are not an attractive enough financial investment. The Everton chairman, Bill Kenwright, has...

Football: West Ham and Manchester City takeovers went wrong, says deal-maker

Keith Harris, the chairman of the merchant bank Seymour Pierce and a former Football League chairman, is the prime deal-maker who has engineered takeovers of four Premier League clubs in the past two years. He is currently seeking buyers for Newcastle United and Everton, but acknowledged yesterday...

Jamie Jackson: football clubs have lost real contact with supporters

Andy Walsh is chairman of FC United of Manchester, the club founded in 2005 as a protest at the takeover of Manchester United by the Glazer family in a deal that saddled Old Trafford with a mammoth amount of debt. Yesterday, speaking in Zurich at the International Football Conference, a meeting of...

Digger: Football's monitoring of rogue bets questioned

Fifa held its first major anti-corruption conference in Zurich yesterday to promote the work of its Early Warning System subsidiary. The firm, set up by Fifa and managed by Dr Urs Scherrer, a Swiss sports lawyer, collates information from a global network of more than 400 bookmakers about the...

Football: Peter Kenyon says Chelsea will target developing English players

Chelsea's chief executive, Peter Kenyon, said yesterday that this month's sweeping cuts to the club's international scouting system were made because English clubs will need to develop more of their own players in coming years.In an apparent contradiction of the Premier League's position - which...

Rajkovic to appeal against year-long ban for spitting

Chelsea's Serbian defender Slobodan Rajkovic has launched an appeal against his one-year ban from football, imposed after he spat in the direction of a referee at the Olympics. Rajkovic, who is on a season-long loan at FC Twente in the Netherlands, is due to travel to Zurich on 10 November to...

Premier League: West Bromwich 0-3 Hull City

The tiger in Hull City's tank remains high on octane. A fourth win in succession ensured that they turned back their clocks on Saturday night level on points with Chelsea and Liverpool at the top of the Premier League.Eight years ago Hull's old ground at Boothferry Park was padlocked over unpaid...

Champions League: Daniel Alves chips in for Barcelona's demolition of poor Basle

Barcelona put five past hapless Basle with Daniel Alves contributing an incredible assist