As the opening of the summer transfer window approaches, managers are working hard identifying targets and lining-up potential deals so we’ll bring you all the news and gossip. Today, Arsenal step-up their interest in Geoffrey Kondogbia… Arsenal have Today marks the traditional climax to the English football season, the FA Cup Final. It also brings to a close this season’s LibDemVoice Fantasy Football League. Congratulations to George Murray, whose Marauding Fullbacks have taken the trophy Total income for the English top flight for 2013-14 was put at $5 billion by financial services firm Deloitte in its annual review of football finance, dwarfing the overall revenue generated by clubs in the Bundesliga, Spain's Primera Division, the Italian Yet from there the club was badly mismanaged, wasting countless millions on ill-fitting players, with many of them unable to grasp what it meant to represent Italian football’s grand “That is what is on the table,” Lippi said nine years ago It represents a third of the £4bn combined revenues of all 92 clubs in English football during that season. Manchester United topped the table with revenues of £433m and an operating profit of £117m. The Old Trafford Club however spent £220m on wages Mid-table finishing Spanish La Liga outfit Elche are to be relegated to the second division for unpaid tax, a Spanish football league judge decided. “AS of today Elche’s debts are still outstanding and no guarantee has been offered,” a La Liga .
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