JAVIER PEREIRA, Fulham’s Assistant Director of Football Operations, has left the club after nine months to become Head Coach of Henan Jianye in the Chinese Super League.

THE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION has confirmed it will no longer fund the elite England Futsal teams and will “significantly reduce” funding for the grassroots sport from this season onwards.

BLACKBURN ROVERS named an Academy graduate in their matchday squad for the 500th straight game when they beat Wycombe 5-0 on Saturday.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST Under-23 coach Chris Cohen has been appointed first-team coach at Luton Town.

THE Premier League is providing its clubs with synchronised tracking and event data for the first time, in what has been described as a “democratisation of data”.

FORMER Bristol City Head of Analysis Sam Stanton explains how the club went from just one member of analysis staff to being leaders in the field.

MO GIMPEL, one of the longest-serving medical practitioners in the Premier League, has left Southampton after 23 years.

LEEDS UNITED have promoted Under-18s Head Coach Mark Jackson to take charge of the U23s for their first season in Premier League 2.

LEICESTER CITY manager Brendan Rodgers has spoken for the first time about the sacking of Head Physio Dave Rennie after more than 20 years, which was first revealed by TGG last month.

FORMER Blackburn, Blackpool and Bradford manager Gary Bowyer has been appointed Under-23s boss at Derby County.

ARSENAL physio Tim Parham is leaving the club after two years and returning to his native Australia. Means that all three physios brought to the club by Darren Burgess in 2018 have now left.

ARSENAL Technical Director Edu has said he will be working a “a lot more” with StatDNA, their in-house data and analytics company, as part of the club's revamp of recruitment.