Jul 22, 2026
Al-Nassr’s cash crunch leaves them frozen out of the transfer window
As the Saudi Pro League window opens, the reigning champions are the odd club out. Reports in Saudi media say a liquidity shortage has delayed player...
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Jul 21, 2026
France national football team: full squad and key players
France reached the semi-finals at the 2026 World Cup before losing to Spain and then to England in a 6-4 bronze-medal thriller. Here is the full 26-ma...
Jul 20, 2026
Germany national football team: full squad and key players
Germany head into a new era under Jurgen Klopp after a chastening 2026 World Cup. Here is the full squad he inherits, from Manuel Neuer and Joshua Kim...
Jul 20, 2026
Rodri and Spain dominate the 2026 World Cup awards, Mbappe takes the Golden Boot
Rodri won the Golden Ball, Unai Simon the Golden Glove and Pau Cubarsi the Young Player award as Spain swept the individual honours. Kylian Mbappe was...
Jul 19, 2026
Messi and Yamal: two Barcelona generations meet in the World Cup final
Messi is 39 and probably saying goodbye. Yamal is 19 and just getting started. The World Cup final puts two players from the same club lineage on oppo...
Jul 18, 2026
The Premier League is paying grown-up money for teenagers this summer
Brighton’s club-record £46m for 19-year-old Luka Vuskovic, plus heavy fees for teenagers at Newcastle and Manchester City, point to a summer window be...
Jul 18, 2026
England national football team: full squad and key players at the 2026 World Cup
Thomas Tuchel took England to the World Cup semi-finals before Argentina ended the run in Atlanta. Here is the 26-man squad that carried the Three Lio...
Jul 17, 2026
Spain national football team: full squad and key players at the 2026 World Cup
No Real Madrid players, a Barcelona-heavy spine and a defence that has conceded once all tournament: this is the Spain squad that has reached the 2026...
Jul 17, 2026
Messi edges Mbappe on assists as the World Cup Golden Boot goes to the wire
Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are locked together on eight goals with one game each left, and the tie-break maths currently leaves the Argentine in f...
Jul 17, 2026
Germany turn to Klopp to rebuild after their World Cup disaster
After the humiliation of a round-of-32 exit to Paraguay and Nagelsmann’s resignation, Germany are on the brink of handing Jurgen Klopp his first inter...
Jul 16, 2026
A World Cup final of opposites: Spain’s control against Messi’s Argentina
Spain reached the World Cup final with the tournament’s meanest defence; Argentina got there on Lionel Messi and a habit of late drama. Sunday’s showp...
Jul 14, 2026
Tottenham’s record £237m summer is a huge bet on Roberto De Zerbi
Two months after scrapping for survival, Tottenham have spent more in one window than ever before. It is a huge bet on Roberto De Zerbi, and on the id...
Jul 14, 2026
MLS keeps luring Europe’s icons as its summer window swings open
Allan Saint-Maximin’s move to Charlotte is the latest sign of a trend. As the MLS summer window opens, some of Europe’s biggest names keep heading to...
Jul 13, 2026
Brazil national football team: full squad and key players at the 2026 World Cup
Carlo Ancelotti’s Brazil went to the 2026 World Cup with Vinicius Junior, Raphinha and a returning Neymar, then fell in the round of 16. Here is the f...
Jul 13, 2026
Mbappe leads Messi by an assist as the World Cup Golden Boot race reaches the semis
Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are tied on eight goals, Erling Haaland is stuck on seven and out of the tournament, and Harry Kane is chasing on six....
Jul 12, 2026
Messi faces England at last as an old World Cup rivalry returns in the semis
Wednesday’s semi-final in Atlanta pits Thomas Tuchel’s England against Lionel Messi’s Argentina, reviving a fixture last played in 2005 and one Messi...
Jul 11, 2026
Neymar’s Brazil career ends where it began, and without the World Cup that shadowed it
Neymar has walked away from international football as Brazil’s all-time top scorer, bookending his career at the same New Jersey stadium where it star...
Jul 9, 2026
The greatest Indian football players of all time
From the golden-era greats of the 1950s and 60s to Sunil Chhetri’s record-breaking goals, these are the greatest Indian football players of all time,...
Jul 9, 2026
Elliot Anderson is now the most expensive British footballer ever
A £116m move to Manchester City turns a player Newcastle sold two years ago into the costliest British footballer in history.
Jul 8, 2026
A booking from the semis: the yellow-card tightrope facing the World Cup’s last eight
FIFA wipes every yellow card after the World Cup quarter-finals, leaving a clutch of players a single booking away from missing a semi-final. England,...
Jul 7, 2026
The World Cup’s three hosts are all out, and the last eight has no home team
Canada, Mexico and the United States each reached the last 16 and each fell there within three days, leaving the quarter-finals of their own tournamen...
Jul 6, 2026
Argentina national football team: full squad and key players at the 2026 World Cup
Lionel Scaloni’s world champions kept their 2022 spine and added fresh legs around Lionel Messi for the 2026 World Cup. A look at Argentina’s full 26-...
Jul 6, 2026
Norway reach a first World Cup quarter-final and get an England side built to win it all
Erling Haaland’s Norway are into the last eight for the first time in their history. Waiting for them in Miami on July 11 is Thomas Tuchel’s England,...
Jul 5, 2026
Morocco are the story of the World Cup again as the Atlas Lions reach the last eight
A 3-0 win over Canada has carried Morocco into the World Cup quarter-finals, the first African side to reach the last eight of two World Cups in a row...