By Jaroslaw Adamowski
April 9 – With the aim of securing funds to modernise its stadium, SC Znojmo is currently in talks with the Czech Ministry of Education to obtain CZK 90 million (€3.3 million) in subsidies.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 9 – Paris St Germain are making a major push into the Chinese market both to enhance their own ambitions to become one of European football’s superpowers and also to take on the Premier League. The French club has just signed a new sponsorship deal with Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and also planning to play at least one game in China during the close season.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 9 – Italian entrepreneur Massimo Cellino has completed his takeover of iconic English club Leeds United, according to his lawyers, in a deal worth more than £30 million – much of it used to pay off the Championship club’s debts.
By Richard van Poortvliet
April 9 – Lokomotiv Moscow have hit out at speculation from the British tabloid the Daily Mirror that their midfielder, Lassana Diarra, was about to quit the club to join the war in Syria.
April 8 – Supponor, the digital replacement advertising board specialists, have appointed Roger Hall as the company’s CEO, taking over from Chris Buckley who will become a non-executive board director and will continue in a consultancy role.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 8 – Serbia’s football authorities, who have been keeping a low public profile ever since Kosovo were given permission by FIFA to play friendly matches, have given the biggest hint to date that they will challenge the breakaway territory’s new-found status.
By Alexander Krassimirov
April 8 – Bulgaria’s CSKA Sofia registered their slowest day on the stock exchange yesterday, with the club only managing to sell 3,380 shares of their newly available shares. Having started with high hopes, the sales have dwindled with concerns now that the club will miss its sales target.
April 8 – One month after former Romanian footballing icon Gheorghe Popescu was jailed for tax evasion and money laundering, prosecutors have detained the one-time head of the country’s Professional Football League Dumitru Dragomir in connection with avoiding tax linked to the sale of broadcasting rights.
April 8 – Barcelona’s planned €600 million redevelopment of the iconic Nou Camp stadium will go ahead after more than 27,000 of the Spanish club’s members voted in favour.
By Jaroslaw Adamowski
April 7 – Marian Iancu, the former owner of Poli Timisoara, has announced plans to become a shareholder in Rapid Bucharest as the troubled football club is struggling to stay financially afloat and return to the top tier of Romania’s professional football league.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 7 – English football’s guidelines designed to prevent anyone with a suspect or unscrupulous background taking over its clubs have been plunged into farce after Italian entrepreneur Massimo Cellino was cleared to complete his takeover of Leeds United.
By Mark Baber
April 7 – Nissan confirmed it has agreed a four-year global partnership with the UEFA Champions League including the UEFA Super Cup. The agreement represents the Japanese manufacturer’s largest ever sponsorship deal and will establish Nissan as an official partner worldwide from 2014/15 to and including the 2017/18 seasons.
By Mark Baber
April 4 – A bill passing its way through the British Parliamentary system will increase transparency in football club ownership and remove the protection so-called ‘football creditors’ have when clubs fall into financial difficulty.
By Tom Parsons
April 4 – Following Liverpool’s move last year to introduce Wi-Fi to its 12,000 seater Centenary Stand, Manchester City has become the first Premier League Club to install free Wi-Fi throughout their whole stadium.
April 4 – The spot-fixing scandal that rocked English football at the back end of last year has escalated with the revelation that seven more professional players, all from the north of the country, have been arrested taking the number suspected to 13.