CHELSEA spent £26.647m paying off manager Antonio Conte and his coaching staff, their latest accounts have revealed.

SENIOR Sports Scientist Steve Barrett is leaving Hull City after five years to join wearable technology firm Playermaker.

DAVIDE ANCELOTTI may be the youngest assistant manager in the Premier League, but he already has a CV few others can match.

KRIS VAN DER HAEGEN, Director of Coach Education for the Belgian FA, outlines the five primary reasons why children stay in sport - or drop out.

TRIBUTES have been paid to Forest Green Rovers Under-18s coach Chris Barker, who has died at the age of 39.

BRIAN PRESTIDGE has been promoted to Director of Insights and Decision Technology at City Football Group, meaning he will head up data science across nine teams including Manchester City.

GOALKEEPING COACH Craig Mawson has left Burnley after almost a decade to join Manchester United.

NEW manager Mikel Arteta has named his coaching staff at Arsenal, with assistants Steve Round and Albert Stuivenberg, and keeper coach Inaki Cana Pavon joining the club.

TIM WASKETT, one of the unsung heroes from Liverpool's data science team, explains the work they do in the Royal Institute Christmas Lectures.

DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL Mario Husillos has left West Ham following the sacking of manager Manuel Pellegrini yesterday.

WE'VE been through our analytics to work out TGG's top 10 best-read stories of 2019.

ADRIAN BEVINGTON is leaving Middlesbrough at the end of this year - 18 months after he joined as Head of Recruitment Operations.