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Two clubs came in. He said no twice. Alexis Vossah is 18 and had a choice most 18-year-olds never get. Foot Mercato reported this evening that two foreign clubs put concrete offers on the table for the Toulouse midfielder during the summer window. One sits in the top five of the Saudi league and is…

A country of half a million produces a Yashin Trophy nominee Cape Verde has just over 500,000 inhabitants. Fewer than the city of Lyon. One of its goalkeepers is now on the shortlist for the Yashin Trophy, the prize given to the best keeper on the planet. Vozinha is the name, and nobody outside the…

It started on a 7 September. It ended on one too. Mauricio Isla clearly wanted the dates to line up. On 7 September 2007, aged 19, he was handed his Chile debut by Marcelo Bielsa. Nineteen years later to the day, the right-back announced he was finished with professional football, in a long Instagram post.…

€567,570, one friendly, and a bank account in Doha A single figure sits at the centre of this. €567,570, the money Russia paid around the friendly played against Cameroon in Moscow in October 2023. The Times published an investigation this afternoon into where that money went. Samuel Eto’o, president of the Cameroon federation, is the…

One Slovan goal, and a defender under the lamp again Camara. Nobody in Paris knew the name on Wednesday morning. By the end of the night he had got past Illia Zabarnyi and put Slovan Bratislava’s only goal into the net at the Parc des Princes. PSG won 6-1. That scoreline will be forgotten by…

The document Spanish clubs dread every September Once the summer window shuts, LaLiga publishes a number next to every club’s name. That number is the salary cap, the ceiling on what a team can spend on its playing squad, and it lands each year with no ceremony at all. What sits inside it is broad.…

Thirty-eight, no club, no panic Free agent since his last deal ran out. Islam Slimani is not treating that as an ending. The Algerian striker sat down with L’Equipe for an interview published a few hours ago and made his position plain: he is still playing. “I am 38, I am still fit, and I…