FIFA chief Gianni Infantino is denying a report that inappropriate conduct was behind a six-figure “departure payment” made to a woman during his years as general secretary at the Union of European Fo...

Gianni Infantino has denied the shocking claim that Uefa paid off his lover with a six-figure sum during his time working at European football’s governing body.

A spokesman for the now Fifa president was reported to have told the paper Infantino "strongly denies these categorically untrue allegations".