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Leicester City: Foxes up for sale for more than £200m

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August 13, 2026

Leicester City are looking to sell the club for more than £200m, with its Thai owners King Power ready to leave after 16 years.

The Foxes have had an eight-page sales booklet produced by a leading US investment bank to help offload the one-time Premier League title winners.

Citigroup lists the Foxes, its women’s team, and other major assets – including the 32,000-seat King Power Stadium and its Seagrave training facility which was opened in 2020 and is valued at £121m – as well as OH Leuven, Leicester’s Belgian sister club, as up for sale in a brochure titled ‘Project Lineup’.

The document, seen by BBC Sport, values the club’s physical assets at more than £200m, though no specific sum has been attributed to the sale of its struggling teams.

The brochure speaks of “a rare opportunity to acquire a club with an excellent track record of winning promotions to higher divisions”.

Leicester’s successes, including the 5,000-1 Premier League title win of 2016 and the FA Cup triumph five years later, are well promoted in the brochure, while their place in League One, after back-to-back relegations from the top flight and the Championship, fail to get a mention.

The club’s turnover, which Citigroup forecast to be more than £97m for the 2026 financial year are also part of the pitch, but the years of financial losses and the club’s debts – which, as outlined in its 2025 accounts, include £103.6m in bank loans – are omitted.

In the years that the club yo-yoed between the Premier League and Championship, with two relegations from the top flight in three years between 2023 and 2025, the club lost more than £180m.

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Hughes takes silver as Ansah wins 200m gold

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August 14, 2026

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Germany’s Owen Ansah wins 200m gold in a time of 19.95 seconds, ahead of Great Britain’s Zharnel Hughes who takes silver.

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Men’s Hundred, eliminator: Manchester Super Giants v Sunrisers Leeds highlights

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August 14, 2026

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Paul Walter hits 80 off 46 balls to help Manchester Super Giants beat Sunrisers Leeds in the Eliminator at The Oval, to book their place in the final of the men’s Hundred – where they will face the Trent Rockets.

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The Hundred 2026 results: Paul Walter stars as Manchester Super Giants beat Sunrisers Leeds to reach final

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August 14, 2026

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The Hundred Eliminator, men’s competition, The Kia Oval

Manchester Super Giants 186-4 (100 balls): Walter 80 (46). Klaasen 63 (26)

Sunrisers Leeds 166-7 (100 balls): Rickelton 54* (34), Brook 49 (31); Tongue 4-26

Super Giants won by 20 runs

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Paul Walter was the unlikely star as Manchester Super Giants beat Sunrisers Leeds by 20 runs in the Eliminator to cruise into the men’s Hundred final.

Walter’s 80 off just 46 balls set up Super Giants’ imposing total of 186-4 at The Oval, before England seamer Josh Tongue led the bowling unit with an impressive 4-26 in Sunrisers’ chase.

Having been put in to bat, Walter remained unflustered when opening partner Tim Seifert was dismissed from the second ball of the game, ensuring that Sunrisers’ momentum was short-lived as he and Jos Buttler added 57 for the second wicket.

Buttler made 33 from 20 before Walter combined with the destructive Heinrich Klaasen and the pair added 114 off just 52 balls, with Walter whacking eight sixes and Klaasen four.

South African Klaasen blitzed a brutal 63 off 26 before he fell to Nathan Ellis.

Sunrisers have boasted one of the most powerful top orders in the tournament but struggled under the pressure of a mammoth run chase and they finished 166-7.

The tournament’s leading run-scorer Mitch Marsh fell for 10 before captain Zak Crawley wasted a review when he was plumb lbw for six, which later proved costly as Harry Brook was given out lbw on 49 playing a reverse scoop – but replays showed the impact was outside the line of off stump.

Brook had shown glimpses of his brilliance in his 31-ball knock and was keeping Sunrisers’ hopes alive, but his dismissal left them needing 89 off 44 balls and the innings fell away.

Tongue removed both Marsh and Crawley before he combined with Sonny Baker to tear through the middle order, the latter finishing with 2-39, while Sunrisers opener Ryan Rickelton was left stranded on 54 not out.

Super Giants will face Trent Rockets in the final at Lord’s on Sunday.