Video streaming giants Netflix and Amazon Prime have demonstrated their ambition to break into football by competing for Premier League clubs’ fly-on-the-wall documentaries.

Both subscription services are known to have asked clubs in the top flight to afford them the access in all areas required to make such sports programming, which has proved very popular in the United States.

The clubs approached are believed to be Manchester City, Chelsea and Liverpool, although no deal has yet been signed. Liverpool were the subject of a behind-the-scenes series produced by Fox Soccer and Channel 5 in 2012.

Netflix and Amazon Prime want to make documentaries featuring Premier League clubs

The project will probably concentrate on the pre-season build-up as current TV rights deals would make documentary filming more problematic once the season gets under way.

Money is certainly no object, with Netflix claiming this week they had the budget to commission new programmes costing £15million an hour to produce — even more than the £11m Sky pay for each live Premier League game — as part of their drive for more subscribers.

Amazon Prime have already entered the sports market by buying the rights to ATP tennis tournaments.

The Premier League will also be desperate for either of these two digital behemoths or both to enter the live TV match auction later in the year.

Meanwhile, Manchester United are the one club set against inviting Amazon or Netflix behind the scenes, saying if they wanted such a programme, it would be produced in-house.

Being: Liverpool was a fly on the wall documentary series made by Fox Soccer and Channel 5

The only successful man-marking job done by Everton this week came after their woeful 3-0 Europa League defeat by Atalanta when the club’s head of media Brian Doogan marched Wayne Rooney through the mixed zone to avoid him being asked any questions by the press ahead of his return to Old Trafford with Everton on Sunday.

Wayne Rooney skillfully avoided the media after Everton's defeat by Atalanta on Thursday

Simon Clegg, the former British Olympic Association chief executive and Ipswich CEO who ran the first European Games in Baku, has left his role in charge of organising Dubai’s 2020 World Expo after 18 months for personal reasons and will be looking for a return to the world of sport.

Simon Clegg (above) has left his role in charge of organising Dubai’s 2020 World Expo

Expert estimates put the combined football agent cut from the last transfer window at a mind-boggling £200million.

So the biggest mug of the season so far must be your Sports Agenda columnist who has agreed to face over 100 intermediaries at the Association of Football Agents summit at Barnet on Tuesday without asking for a fee.

IOC arrests expected

The French State prosecutors investigating corruption in athletics are understood to have delayed making arrests or charging individuals until the Paris bid to host the 2024 Games had crossed the line.

But they are expected to become very busy following the official announcement of the 2024 and 2028 Olympic hosts at the current IOC session in Lima.

Some big Olympic names are on the hit list . . . but none of them English.

The Premier League clubs’ meeting last week agreed a six-year extension to the Nike match ball sponsorship until 2025. Nike also have the FA Cup ball deal, but arch-rivals adidas are the World Cup and Champions League suppliers.

Premier League have agreed a six-year extension to the Nike match ball sponsorship until 2025

One of the major problems facing Arsenal in combating the Cologne invasion on Thursday is that a considerable number of touts have become Arsenal members to acquire multiple tickets under the radar.

Arsenal have been charged with failing to make 'adequate preparations' for Cologne by UEFA

One of Formula One’s most adept spin-doctors, Matt Bishop, who left McLaren in July to pursue other avenues having joined the team in 2007 to oversee their response to the Spygate scandal, is said to be among the contenders for the Sky F1 producer’s job vacated by Martin Turner.