Football News: Review Of The Day 2nd October 2022

Review of the Day

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Contracts

Kilmarnock manager Derek McInnes has extended his deal at the SPFL club to run until 2026.

Watford midfielder Imran Louza has extended his contract until 2028.

Swindon Town forward Jacob Wakeling has a new deal which will end in 2026.

Stade Rennais left-back Birger Meling has signed a contract which expires in 2026.

Chicharito has signed on for another year with Los Angeles Galaxy after a contract clause was automatically activated following the Mexican former Manchester United striker scoring 11 goals and playing 60% of the available minutes for his team.

AS Roma teenager Cristian Volpato has agreed a 4-year deal.

TSG 1899 Hoffenheim forward Fisnik Asllani is another to sign on for 4 more years.

Guillermo Maripan has signed a 3-year contract with AS Monaco.

Minnesota United have given Emanuel Reynoso a contract which runs until the end of 2025 with an option for a further year.

Transfers

Newcastle United have agreed a deal to sign teenage forward Garang Kuol from Australian side Central Coast Mariners. The 18-year-old Aussie, who was just become a full international, will join in January.

Former Chelsea and, for a very short non-playing period, Manchester United midfielder John Mikel Obi has retired from playing.

Blackpool have picked up free agent former Leeds United midfielder Liam Bridcutt on a deal until the end of the season.

Free agent former Wolverhampton Wanderers goalkeeper Jamie Pardington has signed a short-term deal with Grimsby Town. The 22-year-old is contracted until January.

Free agent former Nottingham Forest and Fulham midfielder Pajtim Kasami has signed for Olympiacos. Another free agent joining them is goalkeeper Alexandros Paschalakis.

Stade Brestois have released Youcef Belaili.

Veteran free agent goalkeeper Iago Herrerin has signed for Valencia.

Former Manchester City and Celtic defender Jason Denayer has joined Shabab Dubai.

Injury Round Up

Manchester City will be without defender John Stones for 2 weeks due to the hamstring injury he suffered on England duty.

Aston Villa's French midfielder Boubacar Kamara has been ruled out until after the World Cup with knee ligament damage.

Rangers expect to be without Scotland defender John Souttar until after the World Cup due to his ankle problem.

Conor McCarthy is set to miss 9 months after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury. The Barnsley defender suffered the injury not long after coming on as a substitute against Charlton Athletic last week.

Job Changes

Nigeria's Football Federation have elected Ibrahim Gusau as their new president. He has replaced Amaju Pinnick.

Former Sierra Leone captain Mohamed Kallon has appointed himself manager of FC Kallon, the team he owns and used to play for.

SPFL Company Secretary Calum Beattie has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer.

Hull City have sacked head coach Shota Arveladze and his assistant Peter van der Veen with the side sat in 20th place in the table and just hours ahead of their match with Luton Town, which they went on to lose. Andy Dawson has been appointed as interim head coach.

Huddersfield Town have appointed Mark Fotheringham as their new head coach. Fotheringham's most recent role was as Feliz Magath's assistant at Hertha Berlin.

Peterborough United chairman Darragh MacAnthony is set to quit the role and sell his share of the League One side at the end of the season.

Portsmouth have been accused of "breaching English Football League regulations" in appointing Richard Hughes as Sporting Director. Forest Green Rovers owner Dale Vince made the allegations after the 34-year-old Hughes left his role as Director of Football at Forest Green to take up the role at Pompey.

Colchester United have appointed Wycombe Wanderers' first-team coach Matt Bloomfield as their new head coach.

Exeter City's manager Matt Taylor has claimed he was offered the Rotherham United job.

Brighton & Hove Albion have confirmed their new backroom staff after De Zerbi's trio of assistants were granted work permits. Coming in from Shakhtar is Enrico Venturelli as an assistant. Ricard Segarra has been chosen as head goalkeeping coach and long-term De Zerbi collaborator Agostino Tibaudi is the new fitness coach. Development coach Andrew Crofts and assistant goalkeeping coach Jack Stern have been kept on, though Crofts has been promoted to act as a "conduit" between the Under-21s and first team. Shannon Ruth will now take sole charge of the U21s and Gary Dicker has been promoted to U21s assistant from U18s head coach.

Disciplinary Charges

Chile and Peru have mounted an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against FIFA's ruling Ecuador's Byron Castillo was eligible to play in the qualifiers. Peru want Ecuador thrown out of the World Cup, to be replaced by Peru, while Chile have asked for Castillo to be ruled ineligible for the qualifying games he played in and those matches to be forfeited. Castillo played in 8 of the 18 World Cup qualifiers Ecuador played to make it to the Qatar World Cup. If those 8 matches were to be forfeited, and their opponents awarded the 3pts in each, Chile would be the ones to qualify in their place.

Everton have been fined £300,000 over the two pitch invasions during the win over Crystal Palace in the Premier League at the end of last season. The match, held at Goodison Park, saw the Toffees clinch survival in their penultimate league game of the season. Fans invaded the pitch on 85 minutes, after Dominic Calvert-Lewin gave Everton the lead and then again after the final whistle. The Football Association found that the fans had used "threatening and violent behaviour" during the invasions.

Huddersfield Town have been fined £70,000 over a pitch invasion following their Championship play-off semi-final win over Luton Town in May. One elderly Luton fan was left with a head injury after being struck by a coin thrown at him.

Yet another pitch invasion has led to a £15,000 fine for Port Vale after a mass invasion following their League Two play-off semi-final win over Swindon Town in May. Swindon players were said to have been verbally and physically abused by Vale fans and it was reported that objects, including bottles, were thrown.

All football matches in Indonesia have been put on hold while an investigation is taken into a disaster at a match between Arema FC and Persebaya Surubaya. A stampeded following Arema's loss to their bitter rivals, after police tear-gassed rioting supporters, ended with at least 129 dead and about 180 injured. FIFA have a blanket ban on the use of "crowd control gas" at football matches for precisely this reason. The Indonesian state claim that around 4,000 tickets more than the Kanjuruhan stadium's capacity were sold to Arema fans, as Persebaya fans were banned from buying tickets due to previous violent clashes between the two sets of fans.

Guinea has been stripped of the hosting rights for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. Confederation of African Football president Patrice Motsepe told a press conference in the Guinean capital of Conakry: "The 2025 Nations Cup allocated to Guinea will not take place there because we're not yet ready in Guinea. The Caf decision was taken in July and was reported to the transitional government in Guinea stating that where we are right now, there should be a process to allow new bids to come forward. Caf is going to ask to receive new bids because the infrastructure and facilities are not appropriate or ready for Caf to host the 2025 Nations Cup in Guinea, and that's the basis of the decision." Guinea has been preparing for the tournament since 2014. CAF will now have a fresh bidding process for the hosting rights.

Pointless List Of The Day

Today's list is the highest release clauses in football in euros:
1= Gavi - Barcelona - 1bn
1= Pedri - Barcelona - 1bn
1= Ansu Fati - Barcelona - 1bn
1= Karim Benzema - Real Madrid - 1bn
1= Ronald Araujo - Barcelona - 1bn
6. David Alaba - Real Madrid - 840m
7. Antoine Griezmann - Barcelona (on loan at Atletico Madrid) - 793m
8= Federico Valverde - Real Madrid - 742m
8= Luke Modric - Real Madrid - 742m
8= Brahim Diaz - Real Madrid (on loan at AC Milan) - 742m

Prem Awards

Manchester United head coach Erik ten Hag has been named Manager of the Month for September, as United beat Leicester City and Arsenal in the two matches they played in the month. United forward Marcus Rashford was chosen as Player of the Month, with the English attacker notching twice against the Gunners as the Red Devils beat them.

SPFL Announce New Record

The Scottish Professional Football League has announced a record turnover of £39,523,000 for the 2021-22 season. The nearly £40m figure is a rise of around 7% on previous years. The SPFL has just recently agreed a new increased £150m TV rights package with Sky Sports, which is also a record.

Also announcing financial results for last season were Plymouth Argyle, who posted record revenues of over £11m. The Pilgrims, who currently top League One, were helped by reaching the 4th round of the FA Cup, where they took Chelsea to extra time before being knocked out. Due to work on their new Mayflower Grandstand, they did lose £240,453, but say they made an operating surplus of £800,000. The season before Plymouth posted profits of £376,034. The club spends around 54% on wages, with a rise from £4.31m to £5.46m for the year.

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Written by Tris Burke October 02 2022 08:02:50