Your morning Liverpool digest on Tuesday, June 20.
Man City chairman sends 'blunt' message over Premier League charges as Liverpool watch on
Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has rejected assertions the treble winners have financially strong-armed their way to success.
City lifted the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in a stellar season for Pep Guardiola's men, but that success arrived under the cloud of 115 charges levelled at them by the Premier League earlier this year over alleged breaches of the division's profit and sustainability regulations over more than a decade.
Keeping up with City has been one of the biggest challenges for Liverpool and their owners FSG in recent seasons, with the Reds' own success and ability to generate bigger revenues still outstripped by the Manchester side, which has been owned by Sheikh Mansour and the City Football Group since 2008.
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Chelsea have discovered a solution to their transfer problem and it spells trouble for Liverpool
The takeover of Chelsea by American Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital last year sparked spending in the transfer market the likes of which the English game had not seen before.
Some £600m has been spent across two transfer windows since Chelsea came under US ownership; with Boehly, Clearlake and other minority investors such as Hansjoerg Wyss winning an intense bidding war to take on the club for £2.5bn in the wake of the forced sale of the west London club from their former owner Roman Abramovich due to UK government sanctions in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent conflict.
Players such as Enzo Fernandez, Mykhailo Mudryk, Nordi Mukiele, Benoit Badiashile, Raheem Sterling and others joined, while another high-profile deal was agreed back in December to snap-up highly-rated RB Leipzig forward Christopher Nkunku this summer transfer window.
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