If some leagues continue well into the year then FIFA are considering a flexible approach to transfers to allow teams to buy and sell players at different times and ease their financial woes.

FIFA vice president Victor Montagliani has admitted that priority will be given to domestic football over the international game when it is safe to continue playing again.

The Liverpool goalkeeper has been on-loan with the Turkish side but now wants to return to Anfield early because of a withheld payment.

The game's world governing body said each of its 211 member countries would receive £404,000 in the coming days plus any entitlement under the Forward 2.0 development programme.

Lionel Messi has won it all for Barcelona, including 10 La Liga titles and four Champions League's but an international honour with Argentina continues to elude him.

It is a story that has passed into footballing folklore and now Graeme Souness and Matt Le Tissier have revealed the truth about one of the Premier League's most bizarre signings - Ali Dia.

Rizzoli, the Italian official who took charge of the 2014 World Cup final and is now a referee designator for Serie A, said one change could be five subs instead of the usual three.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: We are only a few days into the election campaign and the conspiracy theories have already begun.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The real threat to free speech comes not from a totalitarian government. It comes from UK university campuses that are supposed to be hotbeds of debate and disagreement.

Like Johnson, Churchill refined his image, endlessly practising his supposedly spontaneous quips. He, too, had conspicuous flaws, drank too much, told tall tales and played to the gallery.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: So how will we remember the 2010s? It was a decade of austerity, great patriotic spectacles, royal weddings and the triumphant London Olympics.

DOMINIC SANDBROOKE: This week, as Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan launches a 'consultation' to discuss the licence fee, the BBC's future genuinely seems more uncertain than ever before.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: The new slimmed down Royal Family is a good thing, though I don't for a moment underestimate the strain it has placed upon our 93-year-old Queen.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Even optimists admit that some businesses will not be replaced. Not every neighbourhood restaurant will reopen. Not every furloughed worker will stroll back into a job.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Have you ever wondered what a perfect storm looks like? Just take a look at Britain's universities. Crippled by corruption and greed they stand on the brink of disaster.

Shirley Maclaren is one of 135 Australians on the Holland America Line Zaandam ship stranded in the Pacific Ocean off Central America, where four passengers have died from coronavirus.

The girls aged 14 and 15 were last seen at Tangmere Street in Chapel Hill in Brisbane on Thursday around 6.30pm.

The 75-year-old politician told Daily Mail Australia the region would be easy to isolate and said doing so could save the lives of a million vulnerable Australians.

Instagram pages titled @brisbanecrims, @brisbanelads and @southside420 ask their followers to send in criminal content to share online.

Christopher Lee Burns was seen reading the Bible loudly and aggressively by police on February 12 in Maryborough, Queensland before punching another man later that day.

Vicki Thomas brought the magic of her favourite Japanese conveyor belt restaurant into her Brisbane home by arranging boxes of sushi on top of a children's train set.

The Home Affairs Minister tested positive to the virus on March 13 and was admitted to hospital in Brisbane that night.

A heartbreaking viral video changed Quaden Bayles' life forever in February. 

Kerry Sheaff owns the store in Brighton in northern Brisbane that has been running low on supply amid the outbreak of coronavirus.

Families from the Early Birds Jimboomba Education and Childcare, south of Brisbane have been informed after the patient attended the centre unaware they had the virus.

Australia's most famous ice cream chain is giving away free chocolate-chip cookie pies with every Deliveroo order over $32 from 5pm on Friday, April 17. And the best part is, you can bake it at home.

The girl was taken from a home in Narangba, north of Brisbane, by Aedan Carroll at around midday on Friday.

Creative Australians are adorning costumes to take out the bins as a form of entertainment during the coronavirus pandemic.

Aedan Carroll, 34, has been charged with a number of domestic violence offences after allegedly attacking a woman on Friday in a Narangba home, north of Brisbane.

The airline announced the changes after a photo surfaced of a packed plane flying from Townsville in far north Queensland to Brisbane last Monday.

The Brisbane woman has 21 packs of toilet paper, each with 18 rolls for sale online.  She's selling a pack of Quilton toilet paper for $20 - double the supermarket price.

Sales of mints and gum have gone down ever since the Australian government introduced strict new social distancing rules.

Australian jockey Luke Tarrant has been given a six-month ban after head-butting fellow rider Larry Cassidy during an altercation at Doomben racecourse on Wednesday.

Research into coronavirus treatments has been boosted by an unlikely benefactor - an 82-year-old great-grandfather who is selling his multi-million dollar beachside penthouse.

The 13-year-old was last seen running from a home on Yugumbri Cresent in Logan, south of Brisbane, at midday on April 1.

At least 12 other people are believed to have attended the gathering held along a street in East Toowoomba around 120kms from Brisbane on Sunday afternoon.

The 12-metre wide and five-metre deep hole on the corner of Childers Street and Park Cresent in Kew, east of of the city, opened up at about 3.15pm on Wednesday.

The store, which employed 70 people locally in Brisbane, had 'underperformed for some time', bosses said.

A Queensland man has died after falling off an electric skateboard, hitting his head, police said on Sunday.

Mishel Karen has made no secret of her fondness for Botox - but she is less forthcoming about her habit of airbrushing herself beyond all recognition on Instagram

The Brisbane mother-of-three, 31, was killed along with her three children after her abusive husband, Rowan Charles Baxter, set their car alight on the school run on February 19.

Mishel Karen has finally explained the story behind a heavily airbrushed photo she posted to Instagram last week.

Tough social distancing measures and fears of contracting the deadly illness have been the driving force behind the sudden spike in the number of homebirths in Australia.

The image, taken at a Coles in Morayfield, 44km north of Brisbane, showed two women standing at the same self-serve checkout just before 3.30pm on Tuesday.

Remain campaigners have launched a website that shows EU supporters who to tactically vote for to have the best chance of stopping a Tory majority and thwarting Brexit .

The former Tory Party adviser has taken unpaid leave to tour the UK electioneering for young female Conservative candidates in marginal seats in the run up to December 12.

He is facing calls to resign after suggesting victims of the fatal 2017 inferno who followed firefighters' instructions to 'stay put' in their flats as the building burned had lacked 'common sense'.

Nigel Farage, writing on Tuesday, said: 'I have no great love for the Tories, but I can see that by giving Mr Johnson half a chance we will prevent a second referendum.'

Phillip Dunne, who has been the MP for Ludlow in Shropshire since 2005, faced calls to be binned by the Tory party after making the 'extremely insulting' jibe to Kuldip Sahota last night.

Kemi Badenoch, 39, from Wimbledon who is a pro-Brexit conservative minister, revealed the challenges of campaigning to be re-elected as MP for Saffron Walden in Essex, with a newborn.