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- Errors of fact, a wrong figure, date, name or attribution, are corrected in the text. A dated note at the top of the article states what was wrong and what it now says.
- Material errors, where the correction changes a finding, are also listed in the log below.
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Articles are not silently altered and are not removed to avoid correction. Where legal considerations require an article to be amended or withdrawn, a note says so.
Corrections log
| Date | Article | What was corrected |
|---|---|---|
| 27 October 2026 | The Analysis Series: Olympique Lyonnais, Two Ownership Transactions (29 June 2026), and its French version | The article said the 26 June 2026 intercompany release captured Botafogo’s c.€125m caixa único claim against OL and was likely to impair Botafogo’s recovery. OL Groupe’s 2025/26 URD (filed 26 October 2026) shows the release covered only debts owed to Eagle Bidco, Eagle Football Holdings LLC and John Textor (€242.2m including interest); Botafogo’s claim is not affected. Two passages corrected. Identified in our review of the 2025/26 URD. |
| 21 October 2026 | The Analysis Series: Detailed review of John Textor’s Eagle Football “Memoranda” (18 October 2026) | Finding 6 corrected: the STJD did not rule on Textor’s match-manipulation allegations; the proceedings ended in a R$1m disciplinary settlement (core claim 30 regraded from Contradicted to Unverified). Core claims 1 and 4 regraded from Contradicted to Unverified; Findings 1 and 2 amended. Headline results revised accordingly. Prompted by comments from John Textor. |
| 21 October 2026 | Systemic collapse of Eagle Football Holdings must bring highly leveraged multi-club operations to a swift end (29 April 2026) | Debt figure corrected: the article said the debt to Ares had swelled to an estimated $1.2 billion by October 2025. The administrators’ statutory filing records Ares’s claim at US$547,372,900; the figure is corrected throughout. |