The summer can be a strange time for football fans. Showing my age here but, except in a major tournament year, summers used to be largely football-free from late May until the second half of August. You would pick up a newspaper in the UK and struggle to find much football coverage as sports such…
Top 20 revealed ©TM/IMAGO Premier League clubs have rarely shied away from opening their wallets in pursuit of their goals since the league’s inception in the 1992/93 campaign, but in recent years the spending has snowballed well beyond any other division in the world. And over the years, some of the game’s most lethal finishers have…
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The winners walked onstage past a trophy designed to represent “the pinnacle of global club football.” They shook hands with the most powerful man in sports, then the most powerful man in the world. They partied beneath fireworks and flames, amid golden sparks and blue smoke. They, Chelsea, were “winners of…
The first videos and photos have dropped on social media. Bleep tests are being sweatily run. Pre-season has begun at most clubs across the Premier League. But the group of players taking part in testing on day one of pre-season at each of the division’s 20 teams are not always the same ones that pull…
Market value turnaround? ©IMAGO What football fans love so much about the summer window is the transfer market’s ability to fathom up new heroes for clubs seemingly out of thin air. European football seems to have an inexhaustible source of young players, with the potential to become the next Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo or Kylian…
By SIMON JONES and YASEEN ZAMAN Published: 19:17 BST, 4 July 2025 | Updated: 23:09 BST, 4 July 2025 Kyle Walker is poised to join Burnley from Manchester City in a surprise move worth up to £5million. The 35-year old England international has agreed to team up once again with Burnley boss Scott Parker whom…
Last year, Chelsea entered into a hefty deal with two days of their 2023-24 accounting period remaining. For £200million ($274m), Chelsea FC Holdings, the company which houses the club’s operations, sold Chelsea Football Club Women Limited (CFCW) to Blueco 22 Midco Limited, a fellow subsidiary of Blueco 22 Limited, the club’s parent company. In doing…
LIONEL MESSI’S World Cup dream might finally send him into the Premier League – aged 38. The legend is tipped to consider a loan switch to a more competitive league ahead of Argentina’s WC title defence next summer. 3 Lionel Messi will ponder a short-term return to European footballCredit: Getty 3 The Argentine ace saw his…
Being successful in the transfer market isn’t all about putting your money where your mouth is — you also need to be a dab hand at selling a player or two. Perhaps more crucial than ever before in the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) era, generating funds from player trading can go a…
Filip Kostic is set to leave Juventus after his loan at Fenerbahce, with Atalanta the favourites, ahead of Roma and Bologna. The 32-year-old spent this season in the Turkish Super Lig on loan and returned to base in time to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup. Advertisement He started last night’s 5-2 defeat to…