Aug 7, 2026
Akliouche wanted Paris all summer, and PSG finally paid 50 million euros for him
Monaco turned down repeated offers and Liverpool never got close, but the France international had settled on Paris long before the fee did.
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Aug 7, 2026
Vinicius signs to 2032, and Arsenal’s pursuit ends without a bid ever being made
Real Madrid confirmed on Thursday that Vinicius Junior has extended to June 2032. Arsenal spent a fortnight waiting for the talks to collapse, and nev...
Aug 7, 2026
Inter agreed £34m for Romero six days ago, and Atletico are now moving in
A fee was agreed a week ago. The personal terms were not, and that is all the room Diego Simeone needed.
Aug 6, 2026
Tomiyasu has passed a Crystal Palace medical, 13 months after Arsenal tore up his contract
Arsenal ended his deal a year early while he was recovering from knee surgery. A World Cup and half a season at Ajax later, he is back in the Premier...
Aug 6, 2026
Leverkusen replace Grimaldo with Gutierrez, and pay more than they got for him
Leverkusen have signed the Spanish left-back from Napoli on a five-year deal, five weeks after Alejandro Grimaldo left for Atletico Madrid. The report...
Aug 6, 2026
Bruno Guimaraes passes his Arsenal medical, and Newcastle’s summer clear-out reaches their captain
Newcastle’s captain has completed a medical at Arsenal and is set to sign a four-year contract, with the 75 million pound fee ending a pursuit that ha...
Aug 6, 2026
Madrid improve their offer at the training ground, and Arsenal’s Vinicius Junior pursuit stalls
Arsenal spent ten days closing in on Vinicius Junior. One round of contract talks at Real Madrid’s training ground on Wednesday looks to have ended it...
Aug 5, 2026
The Community Shield leaves England for a concert, and Arsenal meet City in Cardiff
Arsenal and Manchester City open the English season at the Principality Stadium on Sunday 16 August. Wembley was unavailable because The Weeknd is pla...
Aug 5, 2026
Salah flies to Istanbul in a Trabzonspor shirt, days after the club said there was no deal
Trabzonspor have filed a public disclosure confirming negotiations, a medical is booked in Istanbul and a signing ceremony is planned for Thursday. Th...
Aug 5, 2026
Rashford’s £40m exit clause expired three weeks ago, and United’s plan has flipped to keeping him
Fenerbahce made contact and were turned down, the same as MLS and Saudi Arabia before them. Michael Carrick has got the player INEOS wanted off the wa...
Aug 4, 2026
Reyna leaves the Bundesliga for three million euros, two months after his World Cup goal
Borussia Mönchengladbach have sold Giovanni Reyna to Strasbourg on a contract to 2031, after a season that gave him 20 appearances and 577 minutes.
Aug 4, 2026
Lewis Hall has agreed terms with Manchester United, and Newcastle have not been asked yet
United have signed off a 60 million pound bid and settled the player’s side of it. Newcastle want at least 65 million and, after the summer they have...
Aug 4, 2026
Chelsea sign Jordan Henderson on a free, the eighth arrival of Xabi Alonso’s first summer
Jordan Henderson has signed a two-year deal at Stamford Bridge after leaving Brentford as a free agent. At 36, he is the second player over 35 Chelsea...
Aug 4, 2026
Fulham equal their record for Gonzalo Garcia, and Arbeloa is the reason
Real Madrid have sold their 2025 Club World Cup top scorer to Fulham for 40 million euros, reuniting him with Alvaro Arbeloa, the coach who first work...
Aug 3, 2026
Dortmund pay 30 million euros for Karetsas, and only Dembele has cost them more
The 18-year-old Greece international arrives from Genk on a deal to 2031, after a season in which only one player in Belgium created more goals than h...
Aug 3, 2026
Atletico join the queue for Grealish, who has not kicked a ball since January
Simeone’s side are the newest name linked with the Manchester City winger, alongside Everton, Villa, Saudi and MLS interest. His foot is still the onl...
Aug 3, 2026
Tottenham’s reported Osimhen offer is half what Galatasaray asked for in May
Spurs are said to have opened at 50 to 55 million pounds for Victor Osimhen, with Galatasaray wanting closer to 65 million. Three months ago the same...
Aug 3, 2026
Chelsea’s £10m FA fine stands, but the six-point threat becomes a two-window transfer ban
An independent appeal board has replaced the suspended six-point deduction imposed for 74 breaches of the FA’s agent rules with a suspended ban on reg...
Aug 3, 2026
Newcastle pay 30 million euros for Hornicek, and Nick Pope looks next out the door
The Czech goalkeeper had one season as Braga’s first choice behind him. Newcastle triggered his release clause anyway, days after losing their manager...
Aug 2, 2026
Barcelona are formally notified over Alvarez as the RFEF opens disciplinary proceedings
Atletico lodged their complaint with FIFA and the Spanish federation on 30 June, accusing Barcelona of approaching a player contracted until 2030. Bot...
Aug 2, 2026
Trabzonspor put a two-year offer to Salah, and their president says no deal exists
Turkish outlets say a two-year contract worth 17 million euros a season is already with Salah’s representative. Trabzonspor’s president says there is...
Aug 1, 2026
Infantino drops the World Cup sell-off, and UEFA says he has lost its confidence
FIFA pulled its plan to sell a 20 per cent stake in the World Cup business three days after announcing it, and UEFA answered by saying Gianni Infantin...
Aug 1, 2026
A year left on his contract turns Antonio Silva into a 25 million euro Bournemouth signing
Bournemouth have agreed 25 million euros plus five million in add-ons with Benfica for the Portugal centre-back, who turned down an extension and has...
Aug 1, 2026
Barcelona will keep paying 90 per cent of ter Stegen’s wages to get him to Ajax
The loan stalled for weeks over one number: who pays a Barcelona captain’s salary. Ajax ended up agreeing to cover no more than a tenth of it.