March 7 – Premier League Manchester City’s owners City Football Group could invest in Indian Super League franchise Mumbai City FC. The English giants have long been linked to Indian and adding a local club to their ever-growing portfolio.
March 5 – India is the latest untapped footballing country targeted by the owners of Manchester City to expand their international portfolio.
March 5 – Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley (pictured) has reportedly taken the club off the market following the failure of potential buyers to meet his terms.
March 4 – Manchester City are under the spotlight off the field once again amid fresh allegations suggesting they bent the rules over Financial Fair Play following a new wave of leaked emails reported by German publication Der Spiegel.
February 22 – The first round of Champions League knock-out fixtures once again re- inforced the dominance of Europe’s Big 5 leagues with 14 out of the 16 teams qualified coming from those leagues.
By Paul Nicholson
February 20 – City Football Group (CFG) has confirmed the seventh edition to its stable of football clubs with a position in the ownership group of Sichuan Jiuniu FC in China.
February 20 – The fallout from the tragic death of £15m Cardiff City striker Emilio Sala in an air accident over the English Channel is becoming distinctly undignified in terms of relations between Cardiff and selling club Nantes.
By David Owen
February 19 – Watford, the Premier League club based in London’s commuter-belt and controlled by Gino Pozzo, has fallen into loss due to higher costs and a markedly smaller gain on player sales.
February 19 – City Football Group (CFG), the multi-club holding company that owns Manchester City, New York City FC and Girona, among others, looks set to add to its club portfolio with a third tier team in China.
February 19 – Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is not planning a £3.8bn takeover of Manchester United according to his media minister.
February 18 – Real Madrid have taken a step closer to redeveloping the Santiago Bernabeu stadium after Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan agreed loans of €575 million ($650 million) for the project.
By David Owen
February 15 – Liverpool’s record year resulted in sharply higher salaries for staff and directors.
February 15 – Europe’s big five leagues spent a combined $642.8 million in the January transfer market, a dip of 37.5% on 2018. Italian clubs bucked the downward trend by more than quadrupling their spend, but still laying out less than English clubs.
February 15 – Ligue 1 side Olympique Lyonnais have announced plans to build a second 15,000-capacity stadium next to its Groupama Stadium which was completed in 2016 in time for the France 2016 European Championships.
February 15 – Italian Serie B club Palermo has been sold for the second time in three months.