By Charles Sale
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English football?s Big Four are split over the amount of debt clubs can pile up on the playing side, which is the central Premier League issue over financial fair play.
Arsenal and Manchester United, whom a number of PL teams believe are acting wholly out of? self-interest, want the debt losses limited to ?39million over three seasons ? effectively ruling out another oligarch taking over a club and spending freely to challenge the established order.
However, Manchester City and Chelsea, who have benefited from lavish financial backing by their owners, do not want such restraints put on clubs, who will be debating FFP again in February.
Disagreement: David Gill (right) is representing Manchester United at the discussions and both his side and Arsenal disagree with Chelsea and Man City
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And Chelsea, who are broadly in favour of? FFP regulations, nevertheless joined City, West Bromwich Albion, Fulham, Aston Villa and Swansea in opposing either one or both cash restraint proposals at this week?s club summit.
A new development at the PL meeting is? Manchester United being represented by chief executive David Gill and executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward, the commercial overlord who reports straight to the Glazer family and now has just as much power as Gill at Old Trafford.
Lowe back in business
Former Southampton chairman Rupert Lowe has been tempted back into football by the potential of the Brazilian soccer schools set up by Simon Clifford, who briefly worked as a Saints coach.
Lowe, whose Saints academy alumni include Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, has taken a controlling investment in Clifford?s struggling business that includes Northern Premier League club Garforth Town.
Lowe, who was set to take charge at Nottingham Forest and bring in Glenn Hoddle as manager before the death of owner Nigel Doughty last year, has always had great faith in the coaching vision of Clifford, once dismissed as a ?ball juggler? by Harry Redknapp.
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Carra on BT wishlist
Jamie Carragher, whose Liverpool contract expires at the end of the season, is understood to be a target for BT Sport, who want a Premier League pundit with dressing-room knowledge.
Former Arsenal midfielder Freddie Ljungberg has been in for talks with BT, despite Match of the Day 2 host Colin Murray having to apologise after the Swede told viewers in September that his former team-mate Lauren would ?kick the s***? out of anyone who fouled him.
Meanwhile, BT have given the production? contract for their 38 Premier League games to Sunset + Vine, for whom the deal is considerable compensation after losing out to IMG Media for the Channel 4 racing contract.
Wanted man: Jamie Carragher could provide BT with dressing room knowledge
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FA still waiting for Rio base
The Rio Games takes place two years after the 2014 World Cup in Brazil? but the British Olympic Association are ahead of the FA in securing a training base.
The FA are still waiting for the allocation of paired training grounds and hotels. But the Minas Tennis Club, a multi-sports facility in Belo Horizonte ? a 45 minute flight? from Rio - announced on their website last night they will be signing? a Memoradum of Understanding with the BOA today to be the Team GB preparation camp. Australia and Sweden had also been in talks with the venue.
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Draper peer pressure
The growing furore over Lawn Tennis Association chief Roger Draper?s astonishing ?640,000-a-year earnings will intensify with him being paid more than any other British sports governing body chief, including FA general secretary Alex Horne.
Labour peer Baroness Billingham, chair of the All Party Tennis Group who described the payment package as ?unthinkable?, wants Draper to explain why he deserves the money, especially with Sport England having just withheld three years of funding from an underperforming LTA.
The showdown will likely come at Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson?s next scheduled meeting with the LTA, who made no comment.
Big bucks: Roger Draper picks up a hefty salary from the LTA
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Wall set to sign
Ambitious Jonathan Wall, temporary controller of BBC Radio 5 Live after the departure of Adrian van Klaveren, is expected to be appointed on a permanent basis.
Van Klaveren has been sidelined after his botched temporary executive role in the Newsnight report that made false allegations about Lord McAlpine. Van Klaveren wrote in an email to staff that he found it ?especially hard to take? being moved on for events that were nothing to do with his leadership of 5 Live Sport.
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