UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has branded Donald Trump’s interference in FIFA affairs as “shocking”

Arsenal are actively pursuing Atletico Madrid forward Julian Alvarez to strengthen their attacking line after he was booed over the weekend by Atletico fans, though the Spanish side want close to €150m and have ruled out selling him to Barcelona.

The new Premier League season got underway this weekend, but perhaps the most jarring sight of the first set of matches was not a goal or a standout play.

It wasn’t a win, but Sunday’s 1-1 draw against the New England Revolution was the closest New York City FC has come to one in nearly a month.

Angel City goalkeeper Angelina Anderson saved a penalty kick from Guro Reiten to preserve a scoreless draw at home against Gotham FC on Sunday.

Gianni Infantino has come under increased scrutiny since the 2026 World Cup after controversially plotting to sell stakes in FIFA competitions to private investment firms before he backed down

Jamie Carragher slammed Andoni Iraola’s tactics as Liverpool scraped a 2-2 draw at Newcastle United in their opening Premier League clash.

SIMON JONES: The agreement for the Cameroon midfielder, 22, is made up of a £65m guaranteed payment plus £5m in bonuses.

Gary Neville has warned Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak to improve and become more tenacious if they are to succeed as Liverpool players.

Bouaddi, who excelled in this summer’s World Cup, becomes the third most expensive player in City’s history

Latest transfer news and headlines as Al Hilal work on double Premier League raid for Arsenals Gabriel Martinelli & Aston Villas Ollie Watkins; Man Utd target Alejandro Balde left out of Barcelona squad for their LaLiga opener; Couhaib Driouech set to leave PSV after failed Rangers move

Mohamed Salah scores twice on his first Turkish Super Lig start for Trabzonspor – and almost has a hat-trick – as they beat Istanbul Basaksehir.

Big-spending Tottenham suffered an abject 3-0 loss away to Brentford on Saturday in their Premier League opener, but Roberto De Zerbi saw the warning signs long before

Hull City boss Sergej Jakirovic kept his plan to topple Manchester United on their Premier League return under wraps for weeks, assistant head coach Dean Holden tells Match of the Day.

Brighton secured an emphatic win over Aston Villa to begin their Premier League season but a fan was taken unwell as he left the Amex, later dying despite the efforts of the emergency services

Tony Cascarino has told Roberto De Zerbi that one Tottenham star is ‘not the answer’ and urged him to sign a former Arsenal player to replace him.

Gary Neville has ‘never been so sure’ Arsenal will retain the Premier League trophy and says Chelsea could be their biggest rivals as neither Manchester City or Liverpool look like title-winning teams.

The Tangerines lost the derby and haven’t scored in their last three outings but Esselink sees enough to be confident goals are coming

Jean-Philippe Mateta could leave Crystal Palace

Trent Alexander-Arnold says he still receives abuse from Liverpool fans online after leaving Anfield for Real Madrid 14 months ago.

Everton 2-0 Crystal Palace: Thierno Barry took until December last season to score his maiden goal for the club, but is up and running already, with the prime minister joyous in the stands

Chelsea have had another busy summer in the transfer market ahead of Xabi Alonso’s first season at the helm, but one deal they failed to get over the line was for former Arsenal star Granit Xhaka

MATT BARLOW: Brentford simply bullied Spurs. They might easily have scored more, missed a penalty and in Mamadou Sangare had the best of the summer signings.

Nottingham Forest 0-1 Leeds: Daniel Farke’s men recorded their first victory at the City Ground since 1972

Anthony Gordon started off his Barcelona career with flying colours as he assisted with two goals during the La Liga game against Elche.

World Cup winner Ferran Torres scored twice for Paris St-Germain after they trailed 2-0 to salvage a draw at Rennes in their Ligue 1 opener.

In October 2024, he was handed an eight-game ban for biting Blackburn’s Owen Beck on the neck the previous month in a 0-0 derby draw at Deepdale.

Aston Villa captain John McGinns apology to the fans: Going away in the Premier League, we obviously apologise to the supporters, its not easy to travel, costs a lot of money, takes a lot of time. And they dont want to come here and see their team lose by four goals before half-time

Police are investigating the incident in which Dundee goalkeeper Owen Goodman was struck by a missile thrown from the crowd at Tannadice yesterday.

Tottenham were battered 3-0 against Brentford on Saturday

Manchester United were beaten 2-0 by Hull City on the opening day of the Premier League season, with Wayne Rooney left fuming at Luke Shaw’s defending in particular

United were brought back down to earth following a 2-0 defeat at newly promoted Hull

Manchester United made an awful start to their Premier League campaign at newly-promoted Hull. What went wrong?

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall paid tribute to Iliman Ndiaye and discussed the rumours around his future after they starred in Everton’s opening day win over Crystal Palace

Champions hoping for big boost ahead of facing Aston Villa

Manchester City boss Enzo Maresca still has selection issues to resolve despite getting off to a winning start in the Premier League

Unai Emery is working with Aston Villa to make further additions to his squad ahead of the September 1 deadline

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin says his Fifa counterpart Gianni Infantino’s attempt to sell off a stake in the World Cup was “worse than the Super League”.

IAN LADYMAN AT ST JAMES’ PARK: They came in their thousands to greet new dawns at Newcastle and at Liverpool and to pay homage to one of the greatest either club has ever known.

Everton manager David Moyes said he would not have selected his reigning Player of the Year James Garrner against Crystal Palace had other options been available

‘He’s my number two,’ said the Bees boss, clearing up any confusion over his fellow Irishman’s role

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The Finland shotstopper waited patiently for his big Hoops chance and has no intention of moving over for a new goalkeeper

Ian Doyle with the talking points from Liverpool’s Premier League clash at Newcastle United on Sunday afternoon

A former Championship star has tragically died at the age of 25 after collapsing on the pitch during a friendly match in Portugal on Saturday morning

The Liverpool and Newcastle United legend passed away last month following a battle with cancer

Three new Reds signings in Andoni Iraola’s squad at St James’ Park

Ipswich 2-1 Sunderland: The last-minute strike ensured a perfect start to the Tractor Boys’ top-flight return

Minnesota United napped its nine-match winless streak while sending the Quakes to their sixth consecutive winless match.

Hull 2-0 Manchester United: Talisman Bruno Fernandes and manager Michael Carrick gave contrasting responses to their disastrous start to the Premier League campaign