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Moyes had a chance to knock it down. He didn’t Everton are still circling Jack Grealish. With the window nearly shut, the Merseyside club are weighing up another move for the England international, according to the Times. Nothing is signed. Nothing is close, on the evidence so far. The question came at Moyes on Thursday…

Twenty-one goals buy you the right to say it Esteban Lepaul has stopped being coy about it. Speaking to Ouest-France on Thursday, the Stade Rennais striker put the ambition on the record. “Play in the Champions League, because that is the number one dream of my career, the one I’ve been aiming for since I…

Sixty million, or forget it Some meetings come down to a single number. This was one of them. AC Milan sat down with Jorge Mendes and Rafael Leao’s representative and put the figure on the table without blinking: roughly 60 million euros to move the Portuguese winger on. Sky Sport Italia reckons something near 50…

An hour of goodwill, then it turned The meeting happened last Tuesday in Marseille, and L’Equipe put the contents of it on the record this morning. Bruno Genesio, Gregory Lorenzi and Alban Juster sat down with the heads of the supporters’ groups, the introductory session every new OM official gets handed sooner or later. It…

Four words, and the window shifts “We are going to make a move.” That was Deco, talking to Sport after the Joan Gamper Trophy, a 2-1 win over Al-Ahly that told nobody very much. He named no one. He did not need to. Barcelona have days left before the window shuts. One signing is still…

Messi scored and set one up at Subaru Park, then watched Philadelphia take the second half. Two players walked in stoppage time. Miami are winless in four.

Ten years, and then a summer with nothing to defend Pep Guardiola left the Etihad after a decade, and for once without a league title in the bag, Arsenal having taken the Premier League in May. Enzo Maresca has the keys now. He knows the building. Maresca worked as Guardiola’s assistant at City before leaving…

1.95 metres per second, the number that got Iraola the job No Premier League side moved the ball upfield faster than Bournemouth over the last three seasons. An average of 1.95 metres per second. Only Everton played fewer passes per sequence than the Cherries’ 2.98. Andoni Iraola is now at Anfield, and Arne Slot is…

294 yellow cards in three years Xabi Alonso arrives at Cobham with a file on the desk. It has one colour all over it. Yellow. A great deal of yellow. Since Mauricio Pochettino turned up in July 2023, no Premier League club has been booked more often than Chelsea. 294 yellows. 14 reds. Three of…