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The wing-back nobody was watching a year ago Basel, Schalke 04, PSV Eindhoven and Anderlecht have all made enquiries about the same 24-year-old. A year ago he was a Ligue 2 player at Le Mans. Lucas Calodat then had a season good enough to change that, and good enough to drag the Sarthe club up…

Back where he started Three and a half years after swapping Bodø for Brittany, Joel Mvuka is going home. FC Lorient confirmed the 23-year-old Norwegian midfielder’s exit on Tuesday afternoon. It is a permanent deal, not another loan. “Joel Mvuka has signed for FK Bodø/Glimt. After arriving at Les Merlus in January 2023, Joel Mvuka…

A standoff that has gone public Viktor Tsygankov has taken to Instagram. The Ukrainian winger posted internal WhatsApp exchanges with his club this morning. An ominous line came first: “one day, I will speak…” Then came the screenshots. The background is no mystery. Tsygankov wants out. He had already refused to play on La Liga’s…

A dressing room, one line, then silence Turin. The away dressing room at the Juventus stadium. Manchester City have just lost. Pep Guardiola stands in front of his players and tells them he is getting divorced. The moment features in “A Beautiful Obsession”, the Prime Video documentary built around the Catalan’s final years at the…

Kevin Lamour said in July he was ready to lose his job over Gianni Infantino’s World Cup privatisation plan. On Monday, FIFA confirmed he had.

Waiting, but not for the sake of it Fifteen days from the deadline, most of the Premier League is busy. Crystal Palace are not. And they have no interest in pretending otherwise. Pierre Sage spelled it out on Tuesday morning. The French coach accepts that the closing stretch of a window can throw up chances.…

Seventy-five million reasons to stay calm Villarreal have already written the next chapter, just in case. Foot Mercato report that the Spanish club have added Amine Gouiri to their shortlist should Georges Mikautadze move on before the window closes. Marseille have heard nothing official yet. The Yellow Submarine are not sitting still. With the Georgian’s…

Sixteen years away, and a 2018 world champion to mark the return Number 19 on the back, a contract running to 2028 with an extra year in the club’s gift. Le Mans announced Djibril Sidibe on Tuesday morning, the 34-year-old right-back having been a free agent since his Toulouse deal ran out. The Sarthe club…

A wage packet, and everything changed The deal was nearly done. Atlanta United had its striker, Rennes had its 17 million euros, and Breel Embolo looked set to spend the summer in Georgia. Then he saw the salary offer. And turned it down. According to L’Equipe, that one detail was enough to blow the move…