Leading promoters are already plotting to bring more marquee football to Hong Kong after visits from English, Italian and Saudi clubs this summer. Nearly 100,000 fans watched Football Festival matches involving Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan at Kai Tak Stadium last month, before last week’s three Saudi Super Cup games drew a combined…
Much noise around Bruno Fernandes and his suitability as Manchester United captain, some of it led by my colleague Oliver Holt. ‘Excellent player, never a leader in a million years,’ said the Daily Mail’s Chief Sports Writer on X. It’s a commonly held opinion. I mean, do United and their supporters really want a skipper…
Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season, The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend’s football in England. This was the round of matches when a boy who should be getting his feet measured for a new pair of school shoes about now threatened to break a Premier…
MILAN (AP) — Napoli’s former Premier League players lit up Serie A on the opening day of the new season on Saturday. Kevin De Bruyne netted in his debut and Scott McTominay scored the opener as Antonio Conte’s team kicked off its Serie A title defense with a comfortable 2-0 win at Serie B champion…
On Friday, just hours before President Donald Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s latest joint briefing in the White House, the MGM Resorts group in Las Vegas received a courtesy correspondence. It came from FIFA. It was a short and generic email. It said, essentially: Thank you, but no thank you. The expectation of many…
You should have had a release clause, Alexander! Imagine the strife and anger that could have been avoided had Isak’s agent insisted on inserting a figure of, say, £120million into the six-year contract his client signed when joining Newcastle United in August 2022. Then again — and please do not take this to be actual…
The 2025/26 Serie A season gets underway on Saturday when Napoli begin their league title defence at promoted Sassuolo. AFP Sport looks at some of the new faces to watch for ahead of the campaign as teams jostle to dethrone the champions: Advertisement Kevin De Bruyne (Napoli) The headline transfer of the summer, Kevin De…
Welcome back to The Alternative Premier League Table, a new series you can enjoy on The Athletic every Thursday during the season. We all know how compelling it is to stare at standings. Whether your team is in the middle of a winning run or mired in terrible form, five minutes looking at the table can convince you…
When Martin Scorsese saw Fellini’s 8½ for the first time he was a student at New York University. Upon returning home, he tried to sketch his favourite scenes from memory and then set about thinking what the film was about. “Then you realise you don’t have to because it’s very simple really,” Scorsese explained. Dreams….
Alex Moreno is set to complete a move to Girona from Aston Villa. The left-back will undergo his medical tomorrow ahead of signing a two-year contract. The Athletic revealed in July that Girona had made an approach for Moreno, after he was left out of Villa’s pre-season tour to the United States, with the club…