Premier League clubs have already spent £400m in initial transfer fees before the new season. That dwarfs the tallies of top-flight clubs in Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Saudi Arabia. There’s still a long way to go to match last summer’s final tally of £1.98bn spent by Premier League clubs on player transfers, while the...
West Ham have received multiple enquiries from clubs interested in signing attacking midfielder Mohammed Kudus. Sources have told BBC Sport that Chelsea are among the clubs to have engaged in early discussions with the Hammers over the Ghana international, who has a release clause of £85m. The prospect of at least one Chelsea player heading...
Premier League clubs have “unanimously” agreed to keep the £30 cap on away ticket prices for the 2025-26 season. It will be the 10th campaign the cap has been in place and, since its introduction, attendances at away games have risen from 82% to 91%. A total of 953,420 people were at the 380 top-flight...
Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham will undergo shoulder surgery, but only after the Club World Cup, so will Tuchel decide that if he’s fit enough to play in the US, then his star midfielder should be part of his next camp? Real-bound Trent Alexander-Arnold could also be called up, with the Spanish side trying to complete...
Matches: 49. Wins: 22. Draws: 12. Losses: 15. Goals scored: 86. Goals conceded: 58. During his playing career, Postecoglou was a defender and represented Australia four times and in 2013 he got the chance to become his country’s national manager. At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Australia finished bottom of a tough group that...
The month before Sampdoria’s play-off exit Pirlo was called “a key part of the project” by the club’s owners, but three games into the current campaign he was dismissed following two defeats and a draw. Andrea Sottil replaced him and oversaw a Coppa Italia penalty-shootout victory against Genoa in the first Derby della Lanterna in...
Dutch club Fortuna Sittard’s dreams of playing European football next season have been dashed because of missing paperwork. Fortuna sit ninth in the Eredevisie with two games left – a position that would earn them a play-off place for a spot in the Uefa Conference League. However, the club do not have the required Uefa...
Rangers are lining up a £4m move for Troyes midfielder Metinho, with the 22-year-old, currently on loan at Basel, top of the list of targets for their incoming American owners. (Scottish Sun), external St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson is on the shortlist of candidates for vacancies at Queens Park Rangers and Huddersfield Town. (Scottish Sun),...
Club Leon have failed with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) against FIFA’s decision to remove them from the Club World Cup. Fifa determined in March that Club Leon and fellow Mexican team Pachuca did not meet tournament regulations on multi-club ownership. Because both clubs are owned by Grupo Pachuca, Fifa...
Everton supporters will be keen to know if the striker is going to be a part of their squad for next season. Calvert-Lewin is one of a few players at Everton whose future is under discussion and BBC Sport has reported an offer is on the table. When asked about his situation, he says in...
Chelsea have been so dominant throughout this year’s Europa Conference League that, while sweeping aside just about every team in front of them, they have also been able to use the competition to blood a number of youngsters. The Blues have one foot in the final after a comfortable 4-1 win over Djurgarden in their...
Plymouth Argyle head coach Miron Muslic says he “needs answers” over the future direction of the club. Barring a freak set of results on Saturday, the Pilgrims will be relegated from the Championship despite the best efforts of the Bosnian-born Austrian. Muslic says he still has no clarity over who a new sporting director will...
Arsenal fan group Ashburton Army raised more than £12,000 and offered to pay for their own personalised tifo with many different designs suggested to the club. On 24 April, they posted an update saying: “As the tifo has been rejected by the club, we will refund people for it.” BBC Sport has been told that...
When did this all begin? A few minutes from the end of a league game against Motherwell on a Saturday in May, 2010 – 14 years and 361 days ago – Forrest got on the end of a flick-on from Marc-Antoine Fortune and planted a left-foot shot into John Ruddy’s net. For the 18-year-old, it...
The tournament kicks off just three days before the Women’s Champions League final is held in Lisbon on 24 May. It is also just six weeks before the Women’s European Championship begins in Switzerland on 2 July. The American National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) does not finish until 22 November, meaning any clubs wishing to...