Aug 14, 2026
The Durand Cup quarter-finals are set, and Mohammedan are not in them
The 135th Durand Cup group stage finished on Thursday night. Mohun Bagan and East Bengal both came through it. Mohammedan SC, beaten by a debutant fro...
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Aug 14, 2026
Savinho wants Tottenham, and City cannot sell him until Chelsea sell them Pedro Neto
The Brazilian sat out training on Thursday and City called it illness. The hold-up is not the fee, it is that City have nobody to replace him with yet...
Aug 14, 2026
Arsenal are £20m short on Konsa, and Saliba will not be back for the opener
Arsenal revived talks for Ezri Konsa on Thursday and are still £20 million adrift of Aston Villa’s asking price, a week before they open the season wi...
Aug 14, 2026
City bought Reijnders for 46 million and are selling him for 52, one season later
Al Qadsiah have agreed a fee of around 52 million pounds for Tijjani Reijnders, who never settled at Manchester City. Brendan Rodgers gets him, and Ci...
Aug 13, 2026
City replace a 40 million pound goalkeeper with a 34-year-old who cost 3.8 million euros
Manchester City have signed Argentina goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli from Marseille on a two-year deal, three weeks after selling James Trafford to Leeds f...
Aug 13, 2026
Lukaku leaves Napoli for Fenerbahce after 64 minutes in a year
Fenerbahce have signed Romelu Lukaku from Napoli for six million euros, days before a Champions League playoff against Lyon. He played seven times las...
Aug 13, 2026
Atletico agree £34.2m for Romero, and Spurs got more for a teenager who never played
Tottenham have agreed to sell their captain to Atletico Madrid, and the fee is lower than the one they banked in July for a defender who never played...
Aug 13, 2026
Madjo scores at 17 years and 212 days, and PSG still retain the Super Cup
Paris Saint-Germain beat Aston Villa 2-1 in Salzburg to keep the UEFA Super Cup, but the night belonged to a 17-year-old who a court cleared to play o...
Aug 12, 2026
PSG vs Aston Villa: Emery has lost three Super Cup finals, and Luis Enrique beat him in one
Unai Emery has reached four Super Cup finals and lost the first three, one of them to Luis Enrique. He gets another go in Salzburg, where both manager...
Aug 12, 2026
Chelsea’s new left-back was in Spain’s fourth tier at 18, and in a European final in May
Pep Chavarria joins from Rayo Vallecano on a contract to 2031, with Sky Sports reporting an initial fee of £16.3m, and takes the left-back spot Marc C...
Aug 12, 2026
Wrexham pay £8m for Anthony Patterson, and break their transfer record on a goalkeeper
Wrexham have made Sunderland’s Anthony Patterson the most expensive signing in their history, three days before the Championship season starts. Phil P...
Aug 12, 2026
La Liga starts on Saturday without Barcelona or Real Madrid
The 2026-27 season opens at Alaves on Saturday with three promoted clubs back in the top flight. The champions and Real Madrid do not play their openi...
Aug 11, 2026
Mohanraj saves at 0-0, Gogoi scores twice, and NorthEast United go through with a perfect record
NorthEast United are into the Durand Cup quarter-finals as Group F winners. The closest FC1 came to them was a penalty in the seventh minute.
Aug 11, 2026
Jai Agarwal has bought into Guarda FC, and the plan runs through India
Guarda FC, seven years old and in Portugal’s fourth tier, have taken on an Indian shareholder. The announcement made in Portugal and the one that reac...
Aug 11, 2026
SC Delhi put seven past the Air Force and go through as Group C winners
Seven goals from six different scorers in Ranchi, and a group stage finished without dropping a point. SC Delhi are into the Durand Cup quarter-finals...
Aug 11, 2026
Araujo went from Barcelona captain to fifth choice, and Liverpool got him for nothing up front
Liverpool have Ronald Araujo on a season-long loan from Barcelona with no loan fee, the wages covered and a 55 million euro option at the end of it. H...
Aug 11, 2026
Paciência scores twice in two minutes, and Nacional still leave the Azores with a point
Santa Clara were 2-0 up after 21 minutes of the new Portuguese season and level by half-time. The islanders’ derby that closed round one finished 2-2.
Aug 10, 2026
Bezos is in, and the consortium buying a third of Liverpool is led by Lakshmi Mittal’s son-in-law
A consortium fronted by British Indian investor Amit Bhatia is closing in on roughly a third of Liverpool, with Jeff Bezos and Facebook co-founder Edu...
Aug 10, 2026
Two VAR penalties, both won by André Silva, and Porto beat Alverca again
Porto opened the defence of their Portuguese title with a 2-0 win over the same side they beat to seal it in May, both goals coming from penalties And...
Aug 10, 2026
Palace and Everton agree a straight swap, and McNeil finally gets the move that collapsed in February
Dwight McNeil goes to Selhurst Park and Brennan Johnson to Everton, with no fee moving either way. Six months ago the same transfer died on deadline d...
Aug 10, 2026
Nottingham Forest have agreed 40 million euros for Ousmane Diomande, and Sporting are selling again
Forest have a deal in place with Sporting for the Ivory Coast centre-back, with a medical and a five-year contract to follow. It is the first big call...
Aug 10, 2026
Viseu are back in the top flight after 37 years, and they took a point off Benfica in an empty Luz
Benfica led twice and drew 2-2 with promoted Academico de Viseu in Marco Silva’s first league match, played behind closed doors. Porto are the only on...
Aug 9, 2026
Mokio and Brandt come off the bench to win Michel’s first Eredivisie match at ten-man Zwolle
Three of Ajax’s summer signings came off the bench at the MAC3PARK Stadion, and two of them settled the opening weekend.
Aug 9, 2026
Valente’s goal is all Feyenoord get at Het Kasteel, and Van Bronckhorst starts with a win
Feyenoord dominated the Rotterdam derby and won it 1-0, which will please their new manager rather less than the scoreline suggests.