The Daily Mirror has published the following apology today (Friday, August 1) to Roman Abramovich.

Under the headline 'ROMAN ABRAMOVICH - AN APOLOGY it said;

On 22 March we published a story which we claimed to be an exclusive both in the newspaper and on our website stating that Roman Abramovich was drawing up a secret hit list of potential managers and had authorised the sounding out of Turkey boss Fatih Terim.

We now accept that Mr Abramovich had authorised no such approach and nor had he drawn up any secret hit list.

We apologise to Mr Abramovich for the upset and distress caused by the publication of this article.'