The £2million fee that Arsenal want for full back Carl Jenkinson just to go out on loan next season underlines why the summer transfer window might be less frenetic than forecast.

There had been expectation of the biggest market ever in the wake of a record, £5billion domestic TV rights deal. Instead, it is loan moves rather than permanent transfers that are set to be exploited during the uncertain financial climate for clubs.

Carl Jenkinson has enjoyed a good loan spell at West Ham, playing 36 times for the Hammers this season

The Upton Park club would like to re-sign the Arsenal full-back, but have been put off by the £2m loan fee

Most Premier League outfits — apart from the big four or five — are reluctant to commit to huge transfer fees while there are still doubts about the Ofcom investigation into how the Premier Leage sell their domestic TV rights, the amount of money coming in from overseas TV deals and the financial fair play changes.

And the loan price Arsenal are quoting for Jenkinson might put off West Ham, for whom the England international defender made 36 appearances last term.

Jenkinson is still some way from the Arsenal first team, but club are asking for money to take him on loan

Jim Boyce, who stood down as British vice-president on the FIFA ExCo at the FIFA Congress, was one of the few members of that discredited committee who remains a pillar of integrity.

But that does not mean Jim’s life in sport is not without controversy. It is part of Irish club cricket folklore that when Jim was captain and wicketkeeper of Ballymena they had Kiran More — who kept wicket for India’s Test side for nine years — as an overseas player for a season. But it was Jim who kept hold of the gloves throughout.

Former FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce is a pillar of integrity, but his past has some cricketing controversy

Dinosaur former BBC track and field statistician Stan Greenberg, seemingly living on planet Mars since his retirement, says in a letter to Athletics Weekly that the Sepp Blatter scandal would be a minor story if football was subject to the same drug-testing as athletics.

He accuses Sportsmail of hypocrisy for devoting so much space to the Mo Farah/Alberto Salazar controversy.

Athletics apologist Greenberg’s only claim to fame is that the Viz comic strip character Stan the Statistician, a nerd who tells everybody the probability of every event, is said to be based on him.

Sport England, who tend to blame everyone but themselves for falling participation figures, are going to find they are under the microscope over their approach to grass-roots swimming.

Swimming again suffered a drastic reduction in numbers in the latest active people survey — with 144,200 fewer going to the pool in the six months to March 2015 than in the previous period.

Sports minister Tracey Crouch (centre) expressed her disappointment with the low swimming participation

Minister of Sport Tracey Crouch said: ‘I am very disappointed by these numbers.

'A significant amount of public funding has been invested in sport in the last decade but the results simply aren’t good enough. It’s time for a change. The current approach has had its day.’

Sport England chairman Nick Bitel said: ‘We’re already committed to a change of strategy.’

Owen leads the field

One surprise in BT Sport’s grand plans for next season is that Michael Owen, who frequently gives the impression of preferring horse racing to football, remains the lead co-commentator across the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup coverage.

But Owen will be sharing this difficult role — only really mastered by Andy Gray — with Robbie Savage, Gary McAllister and Owen Hargreaves, who might all prove better at it.

Michael Owen (far left) will continue to lead BT Sport's coverage as their lead co-commentator next season

It does not look as if British tennis has heard the last of Roger Draper, the former extravagantly-paid chief executive of the Lawn Tennis Association who is now CEO of rugby league side Warrington Wolves.

Andy Murray has named Draper’s 13-year-old son Jack as the best of the up-and-coming British juniors.

Such are the healthy finances of England Rugby 2015 — having sold more than £200m worth of tickets for the World Cup — that a spokeswoman would not rule out the spend on the 20-minute opening ceremony at Twickenham reaching £1m.

Everyone will be able to judge whether it is money well spent as the ceremony will be covered live by ITV.

Twickenham could see a Rugby World Cup opening ceremony costing up to £1m this autumn