Schmeichel: Leicester City goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel will be out of action for up to six weeks due to a foot injury, his manager Nigel Pearson said yesterday. “Unfortunately Kasper Schmeichel will be having an operation on a broken metatarsal,” Pearson told reporters. “The optimistic view is four-six weeks out.”
Chelsea: Chelsea have become the first Premier League club to adopt the living wage. The Premier League leaders yesterday said they had been accredited by the Living Wage Foundation and, from January, will pay all directly employed members of staff the living wage as a minimum - currently £9.15 an hour in London or £7.85 an hour outside of the capital.
Tottenham: Tottenham have been fined €15,000 by UEFA after their Europa League game against Partizan Belgrade last month was suspended for several minutes following three separate invasions. Ukrainian referee Yevhen Aranovskiy took the players off the field after 38 minutes of the game on Nov. 27. Police arrested the three pitch invaders who appeared to be wearing identical branded T-shirts, bearing the logo of a headphone manufacturer, which later on Twitter condemned what had happened.
Iordanescu: Eduard “Edi” Iordanescu, the eldest son of Romania coach Anghel Iordanescu, was named coach of the domestic top division club Pandurii Targu-Jiu yesterday. The 2013 Romanian League’s runners-up turned to the 36-year-old Iordanescu after Petre Grigoras quit following Pandurii’s 2-0 win over bottom club Rapid Bucharest on Saturday. Iordanescu, who signed a one and a half year contract, will make his debut when Pandurii host Otelul Galati in the League Cup’s quarter-finals today.
Copa Sudamericana: Defenders Gabriel Mercado and German Pezzella scored goals as Argentina’s River Plate beat Atletico Nacional of Colombia 2-0 to win the Copa Sudamericana. Wednesday’s victory gave River a 3-1 aggregate win after the teams had drawn 1-1 in last week’s first leg in Medellin and capped a stellar first season for new coach Marcelo Gallardo. “Thanks to the players, they interpreted how we wanted them to play,” Gallardo said.