Cristiano Ronaldo has the potential to replace David Beckham as the footballer who earns the most money from endorsements following his world record 130-million dollar move to Real Madrid, experts say. "There is certainly a vacancy for a football central brand right now," said Simon Chadwick, professor of sport business strategy .

After dramatic victory against Mansfield last Saturday, Boro return to action tomorrow against bottom side Chester. After having 25 points deducted at the start of the season it was always going to be an up hill struggle for Chester to overcome and 9 points from their opening 9 games have not given them a great start either.

Just when the window opened, some interesting deals have already been made. First of all, we should point out that teams that didn't do their job right this summer are now in the worst position. Teams like Blackpool, Norwich or Charlton have all been looking to fill in the squad with loanies and now, when [.

Kaka's commercial appeal at Real Madrid could see his world record transfer fee repaid in just one year. He has the potential to generate €70 million in business, according to a report.

The Brazilian has put pen-to-paper on a mammoth move from AC Milan, but that will comfortably smoothed over by the amount that his arrival will earn for Los Merengues.

Simon Chadwick, Professor of Sport Business Strategy at Coventry University, believes the psychological and financial damage of relegation can be significant to a football club, and he has talked about the impact of relegation to BBC Sports today. Chadwick told BBC Sport. "Relegation affects the psychology and culture of a club, and anybody's psychology is fragile [.

After game week 1 in the Fantasy league many people got of to positive starts with the average score in the top ten places of the Arsenal-highlights league being 75.4! That is good teams!

Well done to Dan Chadwick of Mes Que Un Club who top scored with 87, his line up consisting of:

Green 8

Hughes 5 Shawcross 15 Ferdinand - 6

Mikel 1 Jiminez 4 Arshavin (C) 12 Gerrard 7 Fabregas 22

Eduardo 5 Torres 2

Although the table is tight, heres the top ten:

Liverpool may have to spend heavily in the January transfer window if they are to protect their future income.
That is the view of Simon Chadwick, professor of sport business at Coventry University, who believes the financial implications of the club's failure to reach the knockout stage of this season's Champions League could minor compared to those of finishing the current Premier League campaign outside the top four.

by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
THERE seems to be a quiet lull on the western front, a bit curious considering the Glory face Central Coast on Friday night - just a couple of days away.
But getting straight into the scraps of the Glory barrel today - the first bit of news comes from the good folk at AAP.

Tomorrow night see's the league's bottom club, Chester City visit Broadhall Way for the first time since the opening day of the 2003/2004 season. Chester won the Conference that season after finishing 1 point clear of Hereford United, who were arguably the better side. Stevenage, with Westley at the helm, finished in 8th position, but took 4 points off the eventual champions which included a 2-1 win at the Deva Stadium.

It wasn't the best match you will ever see down at Broadhall Way, but we did enough to secure the three points against a poor Chester side. Westley named a similar team to what started on Saturday against Forest Green, with Mitchell Cole, David Bridges and Charlie Griffin again left out. Chester named Nick Chadwick up front alongside former Cambridge United striker Mark Beesley.