"It's no secret that we're interested in Jan, " said Coast's sporting director Marcel Wust.
"Madrid don't discard an option until it is truly impossible, " said Real sporting director Miguel Pardeza.
Ferrari team sporting director Stefano Domenicali said the one-two finish was a great result for the team.
"The referee lacked lucidity, " PSG sporting director Leonardo told French newspaper Le Parisien.
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Linked to Manchester City's Carlos Tevez, Inter's sporting director Marko Branca admitted they would be struggling to afford him.
Levy made it clear the departure of sporting director Comolli signalled a return to a "more traditional style of football management".
Lyn Oslo's sporting director, Morgan Andersen, said he expects Mikel to be back in time for Monday's game against Odd Grenland.
Tottenham also axed sporting director Damien Comolli and first-team coaches Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez following their worst start to a season.
In 2004 he was brought to St Etienne by Spurs sporting director Damien Comolli, who was then working for the French club.
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He spent one year at Valencia before returning once again to the Bernabeu where he became sporting director until his resignation in 2005.
"A lot of teams in MLS are hard-working and organized, but what they don't have is firepower, " says Andy Roxburgh, the Red Bulls sporting director.
Manor founder John Booth takes on a new role as Virgin Racing's sporting director while Alex Tai, a former Virgin Group director, becomes team principal.
Also arriving is ex-Blackburn boss Don Mackay, who leaves his current job as Middlesbrough's chief European scout to take up the role of sporting director.
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Although the team are expected to wait until Schumacher's long-term plans are clearer before committing themselves, Ferrari sporting director Jean Todt sounded positive about the Brazilian.
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McLaren have clearly parked the blame for the miscommunication between Hamilton and the race stewards on sporting director Dave Ryan, who as a result has been suspended.
"Failure triggers a reaction, " said Andy Roxburgh, sporting director for the New York Red Bulls who formerly served as technical director for UEFA, European soccer's governing body.
Toulon, who finished ninth in the French Top 14 this season after a campaign battling relegation, will have ex-French international Philippe Saint-Andre in place as sporting director next season.
Real Madrid sporting director Jorge Valdano apologised to the fans after his side slumped to their fourth successive league defeat - the club's worst run in their 102-year history.
Toulon, who finished ninth in the French Top 14 this season after a campaign battling the fear of relegation, will have ex-French international Philippe Saint-Andre in place as sporting director next season.
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"A host of negative results have come together in a short space of time, " Madrid sporting director Jorge Valdano told Canal Plus television after his side's first home league defeat in 11 months.
This is because if they did, the likelihood would be that Spurs would then have to sack sporting director Frank Arnesen, new boss Jol and probably some of the coaching staff as well.
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The death of long-serving official Jose Carlos Perez Fernandez in February was a blow to the club, and in May highly-regarded former Spain captain Fernando Hierro left his role as Malaga's sporting director.
"This summer we made a significant investment to try and strengthen the group but clearly at this stage we are in an emergency situation, " Juventus sporting director Beppe Marotta told the Sky Italia TV channel.
The 30-year-old striker was back in the headlines on Monday after he reportedly met Inter Milan's sporting director Marco Branca in a Fulham restaurant to discuss a potential January transfer window move to the San Siro.
Hamilton subsequently apologised for his involvement in the incident, claiming he had been told to lie by sporting director Dave Ryan, who was suspended and then sacked within 24 hours of the FIA's announcement of its findings.
The forward made known his desire to play for Chelsea after the club's sporting director Frank Arnesen was reported to have met his agent Ribeiro in June, once it was announced Scolari would be taking charge of the Blues.
"It will be very, very difficult for anybody in the future to match what Sir Alex has done at a club of that magnitude, " said Andy Roxburgh, who succeeded Ferguson as Scottish national team coach in 1986 and is now the sporting director for the New York Red Bulls.
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"It is important for us to see hockey revived because it is this continent's first great claim to sporting success, " says Abdul Muttaleb Ahmed, director-general of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA).
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