The Turkish club Galatasaray signed forward Lukas Podolski from Arsenal on a three-year contract. Galatasaray, the defending Turkish league champion, will pay 2.5 million euros ($2.8 million) for Podolski, a 30-year-old German, and an additional €500,000 ($556,000) if it qualifies for the Champions League.
u25a0 Two officials with the defending Croatian league champion were arrested by Croatian police because they were suspected of tax evasion and bribery. Zdravko Mamic, the president of Dinamo Zagreb, and his brother, Coach Zoran Mamic, have been under investigation by the Croatian bureau for combating corruption and organized crime. The bureau said the two embezzled the equivalent of $17.