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.
By David Owen
February 14 – Manchester United appear to have paid José Mourinho and his team close to £20 million in compensation after they left the club in December.
By Paul Nicholson
February 13 – Germany’s DFL is reporting a 14th consecutive annual uplift in professional football revenue to €4.42 billion for the 2017/18 season, an impressive average annual growth of 8.6%.
February 13 – Wolverhampton Wanderers, the Chinese-owned club with a deep and somewhat uncomfortable link to player agent Jorge Mendes, has further outlined plans for the redevelopment of its 32,000 capacity Molineux Stadium.
By Paul Nicholson
February 11 – With big decisions coming up next month on FIFA’s proposed expansion of the international football calendar and concern around the pressures they will bring, an analysis of player injuries since Russia 2018 shows Premier League clubs have seen a 44% increase in injuries to players who played in Russia.
By David Owen
February 8 – Liverpool have confirmed that they have become the first football club in history to report an annual pre-tax profit of more than £100 million.
By Paul Nicholson
February 8 – The spectacular drop in spending in the January transfer window of $325 million ($979 million in 2018 vs $654 million in 2019) is examined in the latest report from the KPMG Football Benchmark team.
February 7 – French club Nantes have reportedly requested the first tranche of payment from Cardiff City over the £15 million transfer of Emiliano Sala whose light aircraft went tragically missing over the English Channel a fortnight ago, with wreckage only recently discovered.