The week in football – Fifa's job done; Farfan's big day out; romance news; plus why this damn foolishness must stop

Reform: job done

Headlining Fifa's 2013 financial report: the completion of their two-year ethics overhaul – a range of reforms including "an independent review of key management compensation". The result: Fifa's key managers compensated with a $36.3m bonus pot – up from $33.5m in 2012.

Meanwhile: standing firm

Former key manager Jack Warner: putting last week's new bribery allegations against him down to more press "foolishness" – a repeat of 2010's "BBC foolishness"; 2012's allegations by Trinidad players: "This foolishness must stop"; last year's speculation over his political future: "You asked me once and I said that is foolishness. I will say again, that is foolishness"; and 2012's rumours of an FBI inquiry: "It's damn foolishness … I will sue to the high heavens … It will be court after court after court."

• Not finding space to cover the latest Warner bribery allegations: Trinidad's Sunshine newspaper – set up last year by Jack to counter years of "unholy", "dirty" press smears against him. Sunshine's editorial ethos: "Truth, when crushed to the ground, will always rise."

• Among the stories that did make it in to last week's Sunshine: a cover story by Jack alleging a corrupt business deal by political rivals ("corruption has never been as vulgar as it is today"); plus: "Woman marries DOG – after marriage to man didn't work out".

Timing of the week

Pelé – denying claims by Brazil's anti-poverty protesters that he "sold out" to Fifa's commercial agenda; and making a new public appearance – fronting the launch of the official limited edition Hublot Brazil World Cup timepiece, available in ceramic or gold from $26,200.

Plus: legacy update

South Africa president Jacob Zuma, four years after his pledge of a World Cup legacy "for all South Africans", told to repay the £14m of public money he spent on his private estate. Zuma said the new facilities – an amphitheatre, gym, helipads, pool and space for four wives – were "essential security upgrades".

Number crunching

£300,000: The amount Hereford need to raise to complete the season – and the amount Premier League clubs spend on agents every 27 hours.

PR man of the week

Ghana: FA ethics head Nana Adjei Ampofo reacting to press coverage of a string of assaults on match officials, one of whom died from his injuries. "It appears that things are being exaggerated by the media … We must not exaggerate these things."

Executives of the week

• Bulgaria: Levski Sofia owner Todor Batkov, reacting to a cup defeat by stopping all staff salaries. "There are 11 games left, games of honour, games in which women must prove they are men. Those who fight and die for this club will get money. The rest can go to hell."

• Mexico: Celaya's owner Alejandro Márquez, reacting after his players protested over pay and conditions by lining up for a team photo wearing paper bags on their heads marked "pay me". "I paid them. Am I angry? I'm not angry. I'm emotional."

• Romania: Astra owner Ioan Niculae, following up last week's appraisal of club captain Constantin Budescu ("He eats too much and shows a punk attitude. A seven-year-old has a bigger brain") by banning him. "Budescu no longer exists."

(Also making news: Niculae's Astra chairman Dinu Gheorghe – denying wrongdoing after he appeared on the touchline during their game against Otelul and tripped up an opposition player.)

Most awkward

Ghana: Hearts of Oak coach Mohammed Polo, writing to the board to ask them to sack all his backroom staff. "I've told them: I can't work with these guys. I've had enough of them all. The earlier they leave, the better."

Fine of the week

Ecuador: Liga de Quito coach Luis Zubeldía – fined $2,000 for reacting to his fourth dismissal since 2011 by telling the press: "Referees are getting obsessed with me. I must tell them, I already have a girlfriend, we're happy, I'm not looking for anyone else."

Best attempt

Germany: Schalke fining injured striker Jefferson Farfan for skipping a treatment session to go shopping in Milan. "He told us he'd been given permission by another member of staff. This was an invention."

Music news

Romania: Ex-Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu, lined up to feature in Snoop Dogg's new video. Director Massimo Caroletti: "Mutu has great potential. He's a sincere and serious person."

Plus: love news

Argentina: Model Wanda Nara, moving on from last year's denials of an affair with Inter's Mauro Icardi by co-starring in a Pepsi advert with him, having a Mauro tattoo, and tweeting a date for their wedding. Nara, ex-wife of Icardi's team-mate Maxi López, says: "Our theme will be romance."