France is the country with the highest number of locally born players fielded by clubs in the five major championships since the start of the season (440), followed by the four other nations hosting the big-5 leagues. However, only 181 players born in England played in the big-5 so far this season. The most represented foreign origin overall is Brazil (117 players). At league level, the most represented foreign nations are France (45) in England, Argentina and France (29) in Spain, Brazil (20) in France, Czech Republic (14) in Germany and Argentina (51) in Italy. Next week we will present exclusive data sourced from the upcoming 2014 World Cup Preview.

Players from 101 nations in the big-5 leagues Since the start of the season, footballers born in 101 national associations participated in at least one big-5 league match. This represents 40.2% of the world population. The percentage would have been much greater if big-5 league clubs had also fielded Chinese (59.4%) and Indian players (76.9%). More information is to be found in the 66th edition of the CIES Football Observatory Big-5 Weekly Post.

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Borussia Monchengladbach have announced the signing of Basel goalkeeper Yann Sommer. He will replace Marc-Andre ter Stegen - who is expected to join Barcelona this summer as Victor Valdes' replacement.

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The Loftus Road club are facing the prospect of being punished with a transfer embargo by Uefa for breaching Financial Fair Play rules.

Queens Park Rangers are planning a radical overhaul of their finances after announcing their net debt has risen to £177m.

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Wolverhampton Wanderers responded to an angry fan, who had complained that the shirt he bought online had an upside-down club badge, by sending him a letter of apology which was also the wrong way round.