Quote of the week Gianni Infantino – unhappy with “the amount of money flowing out of football” to agents. Infantino – paid £1.15m basic plus bonus, house, cars and a flowers budget – warned the culture “raises questions about potential misuse of funds”. Meanwhile Also making good governance headlines last week: a) Africa’s confederation president Ahmad Ahmad – happy with newly elected executive Patrice Edouard Ngaissona’s fit and proper status. Ahmad said Ngaissona – a former Central African Republic terror group leader who denies links to atrocities – was “being destroyed” on social media, “but [there are] integrity checks at Fifa. And he passed his integrity check.” And c) Thailand FA president Somyot Poompanmoung – rejecting talk that his decision to borrow $9.5m from a brothel owner wanted for alleged human trafficking looks bad. Somyot, a former police commissioner, told media he was “unaware” of how his friend made the money – “and it’s not strange at all that I would know him. I’m just the type of guy who has many friends.” And best comeback Argentina: Atlético Chascomús keeper Gastón “the butcher” Sessa, 44, accused of “punching a fan on the nose” after coming out of retirement. Sessa, whose previous bans include two for grabbing referees by the neck, revealed in 2016 how “people get me all wrong. Those who really know me know I’m a happy person. I’m just passionate about what I do.”
