Beckham’s Inter Miami group get next stage go-ahead for new stadium build
November 8 – The David Beckham-led Miami MLS franchise took a step further realisation with Miami residents voting in favour of building a new stadium for the club.
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48 for 2022? Talks are on but caution around expansion of Qatar World Cup
November 8 – Having brought it back on the agenda only last week, FIFA president Gianni Infantino appears to have backtracked on the chances of an expanded 48-team World Cup in Qatar in 2022.
Sunderland ‘Till I Die – the power and the glory, forever and ever, a football fan (a Netflix original)
November 7 – Netflix might finally have understood what it means to be a football fan. Rather than another sycophantic love-in with one of the world’s big money club, the producer-come-streaming service has invested in the far grittier story of Sunderland’s disastrous fall from grace into the third tier of English football.
Toeing the line: UEFA poised for early VAR intro after Sterling’s penalty trip
November 8 – Was it the most disgraceful penalty call in refereeing history at either European or domestic top-flight level?
CAF reviews ban and lets Equatorial Guinea back in to Women’s Africa Cup of Nations
November 11 – Equatorial Guinea have been reinstated by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to play at the 2018 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after they won an appeal to overturn their ban.
As PSG and Man City continue to feel the FFP heat, La Liga bosses demand UEFA act now
By Andrew Warshaw
November 7 – Spanish league chiefs have called on UEFA to punish Paris St Germain and Manchester City following the latest explosive leaked documents about their financial activities.
European Leagues body slams ‘franchised’ Super League as threatening professional game
November 7 – A breakaway European Super League would have “serious and lasting implications” according to organisation representing Europe’s major leagues.
Murky picture: Monoco’s Russian owner Rybolovlev arrested
By Andrew Warshaw
November 7 – Eliminated from the Champions League on Tuesday with two rounds to go and in trouble near the foot of the French league, Monaco have been rocked off the pitch with the news that their Russian billionaire owner has been taken into in custody.
Liverpool extend Kunming, China, coaching partnership
November 7 – Premier League Liverpool has extended its youth coaching partnership in the southwest Chinese city of Kunming with Kunming Municipal Bureau of Education.
Barça double Chinese academys to six with Yunnan Baiyao partnership
November 7 – Barcelona have entered into a three-year regional sponsorship deal with Chinese pharmaceutical brand Yunnan Baiyao with a focus being the opening of three Barça Academys.
Adidas and Real Madrid close in on €1.1bn sponsorship renewal
November 6 – Reports from Spain indicate Real Madrid are on the verge of signing a €1.1 billion sponsorship renewal with Adidas.
Zimbabwe’s Chiyangwa takes leaf from FIFA’s African playbook and bans rivals
November 6 – African football is heading for another disputed internal electoral process after challengers to the regime of Zimbabwean strongman Philip Chiyangwa (pictured right with FIFA president Gianni Infantino) and his deputy Omega Sibanda were controversially barred from contesting polls for the Zifa executive committee set for December 1.
Business as usual for Subies at RFEF after Spanish police release him without charge
November 6 – The Spanish FA has decided to keep Andreu Subies (pictured) in his post as vice-president despite the fact that he was recently arrested as part of the same police operation that also saw the federation’s former president and FIFA powerbroker Angel Maria Villar resign on corruption charges.
Bayern target Latin America with Spanish-language online shop
November 5 – Bayern Munich has taken a deeper step into the Spanish-speaking Latin American market with the launch of a Spanish language online shop.
Rummenigge says Bayern has not held secret European Super League talks
November 5 – Bayern Munich boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (pictured) says the club will consult its lawyers following Der Spiegel’s allegations that it was one of the European elite who took part in secret discussions to form a European breakaway ‘Super League’.