Cardiff City

Manchester City are set to beat a number of Premier League rivals to the signing of highly-rated Cardiff City prospect Timeo Whisker. The 15-year-old has excelled in Cardiff’s youth system — attracting interest from some of the country’s leading sides — and it is City who have pounced to win the race. Cardiff of the Championship have accepted an offer from their top-flight counterparts, worth around £250,000, and if all goes to plan, Whisker will undergo a medical before putting pen to paper on a schoolboy registration. The France-born talent is the latest example of City trying to...

The Labour Party has challenged the UK government to hurry up and introduce an independent regulator for football or the opposition will make it “an election issue” in constituencies with crisis-hit clubs. Speaking during a parliamentary business debate on Thursday, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell asked her opposite number Penny Mordaunt why the government had not yet introduced the Football Governance Bill that was promised in November’s King’s Speech, the formal statement of the government’s intended programme of legislation. “The much-needed and heralded...

The English Football League (EFL) has secured record deals of at least £148million ($188m) for its international TV rights across a four-season period. The new deals ensure record guaranteed international rights fees for EFL clubs, with two agencies, Pitch International and Relevent Sports, representing the organisation across global TV markets until the conclusion of the 2027-28 campaign. The deals could see the EFL — which runs the second, third and fourth tiers of English football (the Championship, League One and League Two), as well as the League Cup and the EFL Trophy — bank more...

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Aaron Ramsey has completed a return to his boyhood club Cardiff City — with his son signing a contract at the club’s academy on the same day. Ramsey’s contract at French club Nice expired earlier this summer, but the 32-year-old has now signed a two-year-deal at the Welsh club where he started his professional career 16 years ago. Ramsey’s seven-year-old son, Sonny, signed a contract alongside his father, who admitted he “owed so much” to the Championship side. It’s an unbelievable feeling to be back at home- although I feel as if I never really left. Where...

Cardiff City have been ordered to pay the second and third instalments of the transfer fee for the late Emiliano Sala’s transfer from Nantes. Sala died aged 28 in a plane crash over the English Channel as he travelled from France to join Cardiff in January 2019. In August 2022, Cardiff lost their appeal against a ruling by governing body FIFA to pay the first instalment of Sala’s £15million transfer fee. Cardiff claimed he was not officially their player when he died and refused to make any interim payments. FIFA ruled they should pay a first instalment of £5.3m and imposed a...