The top 100 Premier League players in Football Manager 2024 have been revealed, with 48 of the 100 coming from just three teams: Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal. Chelsea have announced that Hilton will become the club's official hotel partner. The news comes with uncertainty still surrounding who will be the west London side's shirt sponsor next season.

As we all know, Nintendo's main HQ is based in the Japanese city of Kyoto. The local team – Kyoto Sanga – joined the Japanese football league (J. League, for short) in 1995, and currently sits in the second tier. For a while now, the team has been sponsored by Nintendo, but you'd be forgiven for not realising this fact; for starters, it sponsors the rear of the shirt rather than front, and its name is spelt using Kanji. Image: Football Nation Earlier in January, Benfica accused Chelsea of trying to unsettle the midfielder, with the Portuguese side's manager Roger Schmidt declaring their pursuit "closed" .

Will Chelsea and Nintendo join forces? Not quite

Is the club about to announce a partnership with Nintendo, the legendary Japanese videogame company?No, absolutely not. Cristiano Ronaldo improved and jumped from 100th to 78th, while Karim Benzema had a heavy fall, dropping from 4th to 27th. Footy Headlines is pretty certain that Nintendo will not become Chelsea’s sponsor.The video only hints at the fact that the new Chelsea kit 2023-2024 will take inspiration from the 90s, and in particular the 1997-1999 Home kit.

European football expert Guillem Balague added: "He didn't start the World Cup but he was absolutely crucial to Argentina winning it. It is down to his reading of the game. Given that Sony's PlayStation brand is one of the key sponsors of the UEFA Champion's League, you'd expect the company to have sponsored loads of teams, but that's not the case. Sure, Sony itself has appeared on the shirts of Italian side Juventus and the Costa Rica-based Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, but the PlayStation name has only appeared on one jersey. That belonged to French division 2 side AJ Auxerre, and as well as getting the famous name, the shirt also had a PSP logo on it. Swish! Microsoft Image: MLS Tempus Ex, a sports technology firm who have largely worked with NFL and college football teams, were already partnered with Chelsea in a smaller capacity, including for improvements to our online and streaming matchday experience (i.e. Match Day X). Outside of these notable entries, we've seen companies like Commodore (Chelsea), Ocean (FC Martigues), Eidos (Manchester City) and even EA's FIFA brand (Swindon Town, of all teams) make their way onto football shirts. However, this golden era of video game sponsorship appears to be at an end.John Rogers, Head of Global Partnerships at Chelsea, said: "Ahead of our exciting visit to the States in July and August for pre-season tour, we are very pleased to team up with such a prestigious name as Hilton for the future. We are proud to be the first football club to work alongside Hilton and look forward to rewarding their Hilton Honors members, and our fans, in innovative ways." Video games are the most popular form of entertainment nowadays, and football is also at the top as the sport that moves the world. It's no secret that the most successful sports franchise in gaming is the now-defunct FIFA, and over the years, the worlds of gaming and football have joined forces. This time, a video sparked excitement about a supposed collaboration at the highest level, but it may not be what people think. Will Chelsea and Nintendo join forces? Not quite Chelsea yet to comment or offer confirmation but it's understood Infinite Athlete are the company with a deal on the table to become the new front of shirt sponsor. https://t.co/EeAF52aIfn— Matt Law (@Matt_Law_DT) August 8, 2023 Tempus Ex Machina, with whom Chelsea signed a seven-year product partnership in April, acquired Biocore to form Infinite Management, whose partners include Silver Lake.

For each fair market value assessment, the Premier League considers submissions from the relevant club, the assessment of the independent expert and comparable data from within the league. What an excellent bit of business from Benfica, who held their nerve because Chelsea have pursued him throughout the whole window. Bit of brinkmanship and they've got their rewards." The top 100 consists of a bunch of different teams, though City, Arsenal and Liverpool players appear the most with 16 players hailing from each club.

The new Chelsea home kit 2023-2024 is expected to launch very soon. It will likely be without a sponsor. Current Ability is an attribute used in Football Manager games to judge how good a player is, with each player in the game's database given a rating out of 200 for both Current Ability (CA) and Potential Ability (PA). Potential Ability is a rating given to judge how good players could become, but we've just used CA to assemble a list of the top 100 players in Football Manager 2024. Three resumed their commercial partnership with Chelsea following the sale of the club by Abramovich in June, but that did not stop the anti-Three feeling among sections of fans. Chelsea have seen the Premier League put a stop to a lucrative proposed deal for Paramount+ to become the club’s new primary shirt sponsor. The Blues are 10th in the Premier League, 10 points adrift of the competition's Champions League places after 20 matches.

Infinite Athlete had been expected to be announced as the new sponsors before the international break but that time has been and passed already with nothing to report. The break has been seen as the perfect chance to complete talks. Football Manager 2024 is the newest instalment of Sports Interactive's football management simulation game series, with the newest Football Manager title now available on PC, Mac, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Mobile devices (through Netflix Games) and Nintendo Switch. FM24 includes a host of new upgrades and features that weren't in FM23, including truer motion football, improved set pieces, transfer battles, player milestones and much more.Chelsea are now closing in on making a major sponsorship breakthrough after months of toil. Following the announcement of a deal for Nottingham Forest with betting company Kaiyun, the Blues are now the only team in the Premier League without a primary shirt partner. Chelsea Supporters Trust noted: "An online casino and betting company as the primary shirt sponsor is not in line with the commitment of growing Chelsea FC as a ‘world class’ organisation. “We understand Chelsea’s desire to maximise revenue streams across the whole club. Whilst we accept that it will happen, it must not take place at the expense of the club’s values.”