August 15 – West Ham are growing frustrated in their £30m pursuit of Manchester United defender Harry Maguire, 30, as they feel that transfer talks are taking much longer than they should.
August 14 – After a seemingly interminable impasse with the club’s owners, Kylian Mbappe looks set to remain at Pars St Germain after being reinstated into the first team.
August 14 – England captain Harry Kane says he may need time to adapt to German football and won’t panic if he isn’t scoring.
August 9 – Julen Lopetegui left his position as Wolverhampton Wanderers manager on Tuesday after just nine months in charge and three days before the start of the new Premier League season.
August 8 – Portugal star Gonçalo Ramos is joining PSG from Benfica in a one-year loan deal, with a which has a 65 million obligation to buy at the end of the loan. The fee could rise to €80 million including add-ons for the -23-year-old.
August 8 – First Lionel Messi, then Kylian Mbappe, now Neymar. The superstars are lining up to want out of Paris St Germain.
August 3 – Italian goalkeeping legend Gianluigi Buffon has retired from football at age 45.
July 26 – On the eve of their return to the Belgian top flight, RWD Molenbeek have announced that former Brazil international Claudio Caçapa (pictured) will manage the club.
July 11 – Spanish international goalkeeper David de Gea has announced he is leaving Manchester United as a free agent after 12 seasons at Old Trafford.
July 10 – Megan Rapinoe, the star of American women’s football and two-time World Cup winner, has announced she will retire at the end of the 2023 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) season.
July 6 – French giants Paris Saint-Germain have unveiled Luis Enrique as their new head coach in a bid to reinvent themselves yet again.
July 5 – Forest Green Rovers, the English club renowned globally for its “green” ethos and Vegan culture, has broken new ground again by becoming the first men’s professional team in the UK to hire a female manager.
June 20 – Brendan Rodgers is returning to Scottish champions Celtic for a second managerial spell four and a half years after leaving in the middle of a season to take charge of English Premier League club Leicester.
June 20 – Belgian goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois (pictured) has denied claims by national team coach Domenico Tedesco that he walked out on the team training camp after being passed over for the captaincy against Austria. Real Madrid’s number one says he has a knee problem.
June 9 – Football must do more to protect players against “dangerous levels” of fixture congestion exemplified by having the Qatar World Cup slap bang in the middle of the season, according to the international players union.