Football's fair play reflex

48: Hours between Uefa revealing how the "whole football family" respects the spirit of financial fair play, with the new rules restraining all clubs "whether English, French or Russian" – and gas firm Gazprom, owners of Zenit St Petersburg, paying £64m for two players. Gazprom's other major outlay this summer: a three-year deal with Uefa to become an official Champions League partner.

Other football family news: man of the week

Julius Kvedaras: suspended as head of Lithuania's FA over allegations he embezzled funding for football projects. Kvedaras – also a member of the Fifa committee in charge of overseeing the safe distribution of funding for football projects – denies wrongdoing.

Bid of the week

Jack Warner, taking a new approach to press management after years of "media smears" from "deviants", by putting in bids for stakes in two Trinidad newspapers. Warner, Trinidad's minister for national security, says talk of a conflict of interests is "weak": "My interest is purely commercial, not political. If it became political later, that would be a different matter. I don't rule it out."

President of the week

Sion's Christian Constantin: censuring his coach Sébastien Fournier for "bad-mouthing" his players. Fournier later resigned. "He told me he was upset, but there's no justification. It was an outrageous lack of respect towards club employees."

• 26: Number of coaches Constantin has been through since 2003, including himself twice. In 2006 coach Nestor Clausen resigned during half-time citing "massive interference" and a "lack of respect" from the president; successor Marco Schallibaum was sacked after 47 days. Constantin's other most respectful moment: 2004 – given an extended ban for "kicking a linesman in the testicles so hard he fainted".

More manager news

• Brazil, 15 Aug: Coritiba president Vilson Ribeiro de Andrade on why fans abusing coach Marcelo Oliveira should back off: "Look, I may not know the perfect formula for success, but I do know the one for failure, and that is trying to please everybody. Fans are selective, they only ever recall the defeats, and that's why in Brazil there's this culture of constantly sacking coaches. But my coach can handle the pressure, and I'm cool, totally relaxed. Marcelo does a good job." 7 Sept: Sacks him.

• Best apology: Martin Kind, Hannover 96 president, asked if he regrets saying fans who protested against his coach are "not worthy. Some of them are arseholes." Kind: "I said what I said. If I'd used more sophisticated language they wouldn't have understood."

• Plus one to watch: Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini, now on his fifth coach in 12 months – offering Giuseppe Sannino his full support, two games into the season. "Sannino is my coach, he is not at risk. His team looks empty, clueless, but let us allow him to work calmly. We will soon see the fruits of his labour."

Move of the week

Sven-Goran Eriksson – joining Thai club BEC Tero Sasana for the challenge: "I look forward to this job. The standard of Thai football is getting better." (2008: Sven, quoted in Dietmar Hamann's autobiography, giving his verdict on a post-season tour of Thailand. "I like this place. I think I will come back here and live with two women. Yes. I think I need two beautiful women.")

Self-defence news

Corinthians striker Emerson on why he bit a Boca Juniors defender during July's Copa Libertadores final. "He was on me all game, spitting, then he ran his hand over my ass two or three times. What was I supposed to do? When we fell on the floor and he pushed my face, the sweat made his fingers slip into my mouth. This was bad luck for him."

• Also new from Emerson: officials studying a referee's report on his red card last Sunday. "Before leaving the field of play, twice – once to my back and once to my face – he uttered: 'Thief! Scoundrel! Son of a bitch!' After withdrawing, he sat on the bench, refused to go to the locker room and had to be dragged there by his coach."

Best fresh start

Adriano: making the most of his "last chance" at Flamengo having been sacked by Corinthians for missing 67 training sessions. Highlight of week two: a formal warning for missing a training session "due to a party". Adriano: "I'll do everything to keep this from happening again."

Modern man news

Stephan El Shaarawy on life at Milan. "You look at some footballers and wonder how the hell they can be so arrogant." Plus: "Since I got into Serie A my sex life multiplied. I like that. I find my women on Facebook. There's a lot of stuff online."

Plus: botineras ban of the week

Paraguay: Club Olimpia president Porfirio Recanate on why he took "robust" action to prevent botineras [Wags] accessing his young players. "It's serious: these botineras lurk outside, sapping my boys' focus. I pay my players for their footballing ability, not their erotic capacity." Striker Arnaldo "Chucky" Castorino: "This news has made us sad."