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Christian Pulisic is in advanced talks with AC Milan over committing his long-term future to the club.
The 28-year-old’s current deal expires in June 2027 — the end of the current season — although the Italian club hold an option to extend it by a further 12 months.
While a new contract has yet to be finalised, there is optimism an agreement will be reached.
French club Lens has banned its own fans from travelling to Friday’s derby match against Lille in Ligue 1, saying their behaviour in the recent Champions League match at Club Brugge “crossed a red line”.
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Arsenal are set to appeal against the red card shown to Max Dowman during their defeat to Fleetwood Town in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday.
The 16-year-old was shown a straight red card in the 85th minute after reacting to a strong tackle from Fleetwood midfielder Harrison Neal.
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Fleetwood Town, who are 18th in the fourth tier of English football, have knocked out Premier League champions Arsenal on penalties in one of the biggest shocks the EFL Cup has ever seen.
Bruno Guimaraes saw his penalty saved by Jay Lynch before Conor Haughey scored the winner.
The Cod Army have reeled in the biggest fish of them all.
Chelsea striker Joao Pedro will be sidelined for “a few weeks” with a thigh injury, manager Xabi Alonso has confirmed.
Pedro, who has scored five goals and provided three assists in seven appearances in all competitions this season, missed Saturday’s defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
Chelsea next face Liverpool in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday, before hosting Manchester United in the Premier League on Saturday. Alonso's side also play Sunderland before the international break in November.
Exclusive: Former CSKA Moscow boss Fabio Celestini is a strong contender to be named Burnley’s new head coach.
Sources added Celestini has already travelled to England with his staff, but the details of the potential appointment are still to be agreed.
🏆 Ballon d'Or 2026 winner
🏴 Harry Kane
Kane is the first Bayern Munich player to win the award since Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, who claimed it in consecutive years in 1980 and 1981, and the first English winner since Michael Owen in 2001.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS, Manchester United’s minority owner, has put Swiss Super League side FC Lausanne-Sport up for sale.
INEOS, whose global headquarters had been in the city between 2010 and 2016, bought the team in November 2017. At the time, it looked like more like an exercise in corporate social responsibility than the first step in the creation of a multi-sport empire that would eventually span cycling, F1, football, rugby union and sailing.
Real Madrid will be represented at a Ballon d’Or ceremony for the first time since 2023 tonight.
The club boycotted the past two ceremonies after Vinicius Junior narrowly missed out on the award in 2024.
Bournemouth have done it again at Old Trafford.
They are now unbeaten in their last four Premier League visits, scoring at least three goals in every match.
United have just seven points in eight Premier League games this season. It's their worst start to a league season since 1989-90.
Thibaut Courtois hopeful of playing for Real Madrid in Sunday’s El Clasico against Barcelona despite club putting out a statement ruling him out for the game
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Chelsea forward Joao Pedro will undergo tests on Sunday for an injury problem which ruled him out of the 2-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.
The 25-year-old was omitted from Xabi Alonso’s matchday squad for Saturday’s match against Spurs at Stamford Bridge.
He was replaced in Chelsea’s attack by Geovany Quenda for his first Premier League start, with Morgan Rogers playing up front.
Two goals from Nicolas Jackson give Aston Villa a 2-1 win against Manchester City.
Unai Emery's side are now unbeaten in their last four Premier League home games against sides starting the day at the top of the table.
City have also now lost three in a row against Villa, having last done so between August 1962 and September 1966.
Michael Carrick's five-and-a-half-minute press conference monologue on Friday was admirable, heartfelt and will deeply resonate with Manchester United's core fanbase.
It also showed exactly why he is almost certainly not the right person for the job and why he is unlikely to be in charge much longer.
Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany has been taken to hospital by ambulance, after collapsing at the club’s Sabener Strasse headquarters on Friday.
Kompany, 40, has been suffering from a viral infection over the past week and had been watching a session involving the club’s second team ahead of the senior team’s Bundesliga game against Freiburg on Sunday.
Bayern confirmed Kompany will now undergo “a thorough examination and remain under medical care”. His coaching staff will manage training and match operations until further notice, the club said.
Manchester United anticipate Benjamin Sesko will be out until at least January as he strives to recover fully from his shin injury.
The club’s medical team have been investigating the best course of treatment with specialists, and the 23-year-old is set to need more time to recover.
Barcelona have been fined €602 (£504; $670) by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) over their summer pursuit of Atletico Madrid’s Julian Alvarez.
Atletico reported Barca in July over their perceived improper attempts to sign the Argentina forward, who ultimately remained at the Metropolitano despite the summer transfer saga. The complaint related to an alleged breach of ethics between the clubs.
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Arsenal’s Carabao Cup game against Fleetwood Town was halted for over eight minutes due to a drone flying over the pitch.
The game was stopped after two minutes when a drone was spotted flying around the League Two side’s Highbury Stadium.
Two Chinese companies have terminated their partnerships with Kylian Mbappe after apparent comments the Real Madrid player made about former leader Mao Zedong.
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Michael Carrick arrives at Carrington today, as expected, ahead of first-team training.
Clarity + communication from #MUFC required; limbo status cannot continue.
Newcastle due compensation into millions of £ from any club hiring Eddie Howe
Here’s one for the conspiracy theorists.
France Football published three ‘winner’ articles on the official Ballon d’Or website this evening — one each for Harry Kane, Kylian Mbappe and Lamine Yamal.
Each profile declared its subject the winner. All three have since been taken down.
Hardly the start to the evening the organisers would have wanted, with the deleted profiles likely to cause a stir on social media.
Barcelona defender Xavi Espart is set to be unavailable for seven weeks after suffering an ankle injury in Sunday’s El Clasico defeat.
That timeframe would rule the teenager out of nine first-team games, including next month’s league trip to Atletico Madrid and the Champions League games against Aston Villa and Manchester City.
The Premier League is home to six of the top 10 richest clubs in world football and since the start of this decade, 17 of the 21 biggest transfers have been paid by clubs from England's top flight.
Yet there are just five players from the Premier League on the 30-strong men's Ballon d'Or shortlist.
Why is that? Does the Premier League, for all its money and strength, lack stardust?
Bruno Fernandes has been left out of Manchester United’s starting line-up against Bournemouth.
Head coach Michael Carrick has decided to drop United’s captain to the bench as he bids to turn around his team’s form in a pivotal moment.
Fernandes, 32, questioned his team’s tactics after their 4-1 loss to Como on Wednesday night. It was United’s seventh game without a win, and the result prompted Carrick to apologise to supporters.
Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta has said he is keeping tabs on rival Premier League managers who leave their technical area after he was booked in the win over Everton.
Arteta has earned a reputation for straying from his designated area on the touchline during matches, and was shown a yellow card for the offence for the second time this season against Everton – leaving him one booking away from a ban.
But the Spaniard claims he is far from the worst offender in the top flight as he questioned whether it was really possible to police the offence.
The sight that no Tottenham Hotspur fan wanted to see.
In just his second start after a long injury lay-off, James Maddison goes down.
He gets up and limps off but there seems to be some concern among the Spurs staff.
Arsenal fear they could be without forward Bukayo Saka for around six to eight weeks due to the injury he sustained against Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
The initial concern was the England international could face up to eight weeks out but the club are still waiting for further clarity on the issue and timeframe, according to sources with knowledge of the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect relationships.
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Tottenham head coach Roberto De Zerbi says his side will welcome back Pedro Porro for their game against Chelsea, but James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski are doubts.
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