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La Liga side Rayo Vallecano have been barred indefinitely from playing at their home stadium less than three weeks before the start of the new season because of the risk of supporters contracting Legionnaires’ disease. Rayo rent the Estadio de Vallecas from the regional government of Madrid but have had …

Available for 29 days What will Scottish Premiership football look like this season? David Currie is joined by coach and analyst John Walker and former midfielder Scott Allan for a tactical deep dive into the campaigns ahead. From Hearts’ ambitious “organised chaos” under Wouter Vrancken to Celtic’s attempts to replace …

Crystal Palace have held talks with Takehiro Tomiyasu over a permanent contract that would mean the defender returning to the Premier League. Tomiyasu is training with Palace and was named as a substitute in the pre-season friendly versus Lens on Tuesday. And the Japan international is understood to have held …

Rangers are set to make around £1m profit on Finland winger Oliver Antman after the Ibrox club accepted a bid of £4.5m from Belgian side Anderlecht. (Scottish Sun), external And former Rangers loanee Vaclav Cerny is one of players shortlisted as Antman’s replacement. (Scottish Sun), external Despite being handed a …

Middlesbrough have signed Vancouver Whitecaps midfielder Sebastian Berhalter for an undisclosed fee on a four-year deal. The 25-year-old USA international scored 20 goals in 167 appearances for the Major League Soccer (MLS) club. He might make his debut for Kim Hellberg’s side’s in their Carabao Cup first-round tie against Wrexham …

The 30-man squad flew to Birmingham on Monday before training early evening in the Midlands, with Fermín Lopez continuing his recovery from injury. The midfielder missed out on Spain’s World Cup success after breaking his foot against Real Betis in May. Flick’s squad is a mix of senior players, along …

Spain defender Marc Cucurella has kept his promise to get a tattoo of World Cup-winning coach Luis de la Fuente. Cucurella helped Spain win the World Cup this month as they beat Argentina 1-0 in the final. Cucurella, who joined Real Madrid from Chelsea for £52m in June, revealed the …

Uefa’s 55 member associations will hold an emergency meeting later this week to discuss Fifa’s controversial proposals to sell stakes in its major competitions. Football’s world governing body has said it wants to create a new commercial subsidiary to run its main events, including the World Cup, and external investors …

Available for over a year This week, former Stoke City, Chelsea, Everton and Bosnia-Herzegovina goalkeeper Asmir Begović submits three stories from his career. Did Stoke manager Tony Pulis really invite Begović to date his daughter with the hope that he might one day become his son-in-law? Did Liverpool boss Brendan …

Welcome to our Who am I? game. The rules are simple. Each day there’s a new footballer and the challenge is to guess who they are in as few attempts as possible. After each wrong guess you unlock a new clue. Guess the answer after as few clues as possible …

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PSG’s Bradley Barcola verbally agrees to join Liverpool, but clubs apart on valuation, Real Madrid have no plans to sell Vinicius Jr and Everton want around £70m for Iliman Ndiaye. Paris St-Germain and France forward Bradley Barcola, 23, has verbally agreed to join Liverpool, but there is no certainty over …

This season will see a new version of Aston Villa under Unai Emery. A 4-2 defeat to Real Sociedad on Tuesday will irritate their perfectionist head coach, but there is plenty of time for him to fine-tune the Europa League holders before the start of the new campaign. With Brian …

Manchester City winger Savinho is open to leaving the club with a view to exploring a move to Tottenham. The Brazil international is a key target for Spurs head coach Roberto de Zerbi and City are aware of the interest in the 22-year-old. It is understood Savinho is keen to …

Kilgetty-born Cullen joined the Swansea academy at the age of eight and made his senior debut in a 1-0 EFL Cup defeat by Crystal Palace under Graham Potter in August 2018. He scored his first goal for the Swans in a dramatic 4-1 win over Reading on the final day …

Motherwell’s players have been told to “go home and eat some barbed wire” as manager Alfred Johansson prepares for a demanding decider away to HB Torshavn on Thursday (18:00 BST). The Fir Park side fly to the Faroe Islands carrying a 2-0 lead from a commanding Conference League second qualifying …

In September, the France national team will have a new face on the touchline for the first time in 14 years. By the time the appointment was announced on Tuesday morning, it had long been an open secret that Zinedine Zidane would succeed Didier Deschamps this summer. Talks between the …

Chelsea are set to sign attacking midfielder Giulia Dragoni from Barcelona. The 19-year-old spent the last two seasons on loan at Roma, and Chelsea have been tracking her progress for several years. Dragoni has already made 24 appearances for Italy since her debut aged 16 and has experience in the …

“This is a four-year commitment that must take us from here to the next World Cup in 2030, with a European Championship along the way,” Malago said when he announced Maldini and Leonardo’s appointments. But that commitment lasted little more than a fortnight as the relationship turned fraught over a …

Xabi Alonso’s first match as Chelsea manager was defined by four strikers – an untouchable one, one that struggled again and could leave, a promising talent, and one that could join. The star was Joao Pedro, who scored a nine-minute hat-trick to help Alonso’s side to a 6-4 win against …