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Como agree a deal worth more than £30m to sign Chelsea defender Trevoh Chalobah.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina captain Edin Dzeko, 40, signs a one-year contract extension at newly promoted Bundesliga side Schalke.

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England midfielder Jordan Henderson signs for Chelsea on a two-year deal after his contract with Brentford is mutually terminated.

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Mikel Arteta’s team and the Brazilian star could be a perfect match. It also could be a risk that ends in disaster Sometimes what is needed is something different. There is a long history in football of counterintuitive thinking being successful, of the benefits of creative tension, of adding grit to the oyster to g…

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Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Here we go again. And, no, we are not talking about the start of the new Scottish Premiership season or the preliminary round of the Carabao Cup – although that Tranmere v Rochdale shootout was a cracker. Yes, after a week of talk about money, greed and Donald Trum…

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With a month to go before the start of the Women's Super League season, Manchester United are without a manager and have a thin squad.

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BBC Sport's Aadam Patel reports on the latest from the Liverpool tour of the United States.

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Non-league Flixton FC set the record straight after former Man Utd winger Jadon Sancho is seen training with the club.

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Supporters must not miss more than three home games Serie A club’s chairman defends new rules Como, the surprise package of last season’s Serie A, who qualified for the Champions League for the first time , will revoke season tickets from fans who fail to attend four home matches, under a series of new rules that ha…

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Teenager Nyoni excelled in Andoni Iraola’s first pre-season tour, but the head coach desperately needs transfers Andoni Iraola’s first pre-season tour as the Liverpool head coach produced wins over Sunderland in Nashville and Wrexham in New York before ending in a 4-2 defeat against Leeds in Chicago. The Guardian fo…

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The £34m signing from Club Brugge says he is a more complete player now after an indifferent time at Norwich For any Arsenal fan eager to know what Christos Tzolis might bring to the Premier League champions, the winger’s swiftly earned nickname at his new club might prove instructive. In the 2006 action film 300, t…

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Manchester United manager Marc Skinner steps down from his position before the start of the Women's Super League season.

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Newcastle United sign goalkeeper Lukas Hornicek from Braga for £25.7m.

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United want to grow homegrown talent rather than spend Skinner departs by mutual consent after five years Marc Skinner has left his role as Manchester United’s head coach by mutual consent after five years, partly because of the club’s transfer strategy. The 43-year-old is understood to have initiated the discussion…

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FA no longer endorses Fifa president for re-election Wales and Serbia join Finland in withdrawing backing European countries began turning their backs on Gianni Infantino as moves intensified across the globe to end his crisis-hit tenure as Fifa president. The Football Association was the highest-profile of several…

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Everton competed for the European places before falling away last season. BBC Sport examines whether David Moyes is the right man to turn them around this term.

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Today’s rumours are at a pintxo bar Jack Grealish needs a route out of Manchester City and could be offered one by Atlético Madrid. Everton, where he spent last season on loan, and first club Aston Villa are also lurking as the winger recovers from injury. The 30-year-old is absent from City’s pre-season tour and hi…

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The 50th anniversary is the perfect time to remember 50 of the most famous – and infamous – attempts at the Czech’s chip It is 50 years since Antonin Panenka won the European Championship for Czechoslovakia with the most audacious penalty ever taken. His signature chip wasn’t instantly eponymous. A search of the Bri…

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Manchester City forward Antoine Semenyo hails new manager Enzo Maresca's style of play as "music to my ears" after showcasing early signs of his role under the Italian.

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On the overnight flight from Chicago back to England, Andoni Iraola will have plenty of thinking to do after the conclusion of Liverpool's pre-season US tour.

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Liverpool 2-4 Leeds Calvert-Lewin scores twice in comeback from 2-0 down After 45 minutes at Soldier Field the tale of Liverpool’s pre-season tour of the US was of three straight wins and Andoni Iraola’s ideas taking shape thanks in no small part to Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak. After 90, with Liverpool’s expens…

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