🇶🇦 For the first time in history, sex will effectively be banned at a World Cup for players and fans who are not married.

👉 Sex outside of marriage is illegal in Qatar and any fan who has a one-night stand at the World Cup risks going to prison for seven years.

✍️ Daily Star

🚨Exclusive: Petr Cech to have talks with Todd Boehly about his role at Chelsea after board reshuffle and a sporting director role is added. Those talks will be central to whether he stays or leaves

[Nizaar Kinsella]

Petr Cech is considering his position at #Chelsea. He is yet to make a decision on his future and it will hinge on further talks with Todd Boehly.

[via Nizaar Kinsella]

Leeds United have been pretty clear with all clubs interested in Raphinha: he can leave but they want at least £65m fee. 🇧🇷 #LUFC

Arsenal after first bid rejected, Spurs after new direct talks, Chelsea after contact through Boehly… and Barça via Deco, got the same message.

Chelsea Football Club record transfers:

🔵 Romelu Lukaku: £101 Million
🔵 Kai Havertz: £72 Million
🔵 Kepa Arrizabalaga: £72 Million
🔵 Alvaro Morata: £59 Million
🔵 Christian Pulisic: £57 Million
🔵 Fernando Torres: £52 Million
🔵 Jorginho: £51 Million
🔵 Timo Werner: £47 Million
🔵 Ben Chilwell: £45 Million
🔵 Mateo Kovacic: £40 Million

A club-record fee in 2021, loaned out to Inter in 2022... 😳

Zinédine Zidane on Paris Saint-Germain job as coach one day: "Never say never. As a manager, there aren't 50 clubs where I can go. There are two or three possibilities", he told L'Équipe. 🇫🇷 #PSG

🚨 PSG will have to pay Neymar €130M, the equivalent of the final 5 years of his contract, if they want him to leave. 🤑

— lequipe

Minamino £7.25m➡️£15.5m
Ings £8m➡️£20m
Solanke £3m➡️£19m
Ward £100k➡️£12.6m
Ibe £500K➡️£15m
Brewster 0➡️£23.5m

Over £86.5 made on 7 players who made 47 League starts between them.

The masters of selling players. 💰

#mufc expected Barcelona to accept the €60m offer for Frenkie de Jong.
[DiarioAs via ManagingBarca]🥈
📥

NEW: Antony is valued at more than £50m. Ajax will not allow Ten Hag to tear apart their squad. It is likely that Ten Hag will have to choose between Lisandro Martinez and Antony, unless United make an offer that is just too good to refuse. [Simon Mullock] 🥇

Cristiano Ronaldo is worried about the passivity with which United has started the transfer market and the reinforcements being made by rivals

Cristiano wants reinforcements, but it does not seem that the club is going to face the renewal of the squad that Cristiano considers necessary

Cristiano does not want to exhaust his last season in the elite, or one of the last, with no options to add any title to his track record

Cristiano Ronaldo’s future depends on how Man Utd strengthen over the next two months

[Manu Sainz]🥉

🗞 Erik ten Hag wants a credible competitor for Harry Maguire, who is not certain of retaining the captaincy.

🗞 Erik ten Hag will inherit 13 defenders who have played for the #mufc first-team and the bloated department could delay the arrival of a new centre-back.

🗞 #mufc believe they will have to sell in order to reinforce their defence amid interest in signing a centre-back.

🗞 Figures at #mufc regard Luke Shaw as a top drawer full-back despite his comedown from a superb 2020-21 season and European Championship campaign with England.

🗞 Eric Bailly and Phil Jones have outlined their intention to leave #mufc to teammates while Axel Tuanzebe is also available for transfer, although sources have described his situation as "delicate".
[Samuel Luckhurst, MEN]🥇

🗣️ Rio Ferdinand: "He [Varane] went from one team, a functioning team at the top level, all the players playing to their maximum consistently, and went into an absolute reverse situation where the team has zero functionality, no confidence, no guidance and no structure."[Sports bible]🥉

Latest Top 10 FIFA rankings:

1. 🇧🇷 Brazil
2. 🇧🇪 Belgium
3. 🇦🇷 Argentina 🔺
4. 🇫🇷 France 🔻
5. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
6. 🇪🇸 Spain 🔺
7. 🇮🇹 Italy 🔻
8. 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🔺
9. 🇵🇹 Portugal 🔻
10. 🇩🇰 Denmark 🔺

Latest Top 10 Africa FIFA Rankings:

1.🇸🇳Senegal
2.🇲🇦Morocco
3.🇹🇳Tunisia
4.🇳🇬Nigeria
5.🇨🇲Cameroon
6.🇪🇬Egypt
7.🇩🇿Algeria
8.🇲🇱Mali
9.🇨🇮Ivory Coast
10.🇧🇫 Burkina Faso

What a fantastic transfer window in the summer of 2004 Chelsea FC had.

(🏅) 📰 Alasdair Gold | Tottenham are not planning to make a last ditch effort to hijack Arsenal's Gabriel Jesus 🇧🇷 talks as Fabio Paratici's and Daniel Levy's priorities are currently elsewhere.
--
ℹ️ Fabio Paratici and Spurs are known admirers of the Manchester City striker, but no bid has gone in for him and there are no plans to make a bid at the current time.
--
ℹ️ A new striker is on Antonio Conte's wishlist for this summer, with a number of names linked with a move to N17. Spurs have already been credited with an interest in Brazilian duo Richarlison 🇧🇷 and Raphinha but expect to face stiff competition from their London rivals for the pair. They are also known admirers of Napoli forward Victor Osimhen.

La liga full fixtures for next season 🤍💜 *VAMOS*

Barcelona have submitted the new proposal for Robert Lewandowski, as expected - after player confirmed to Bayern his priority to join Barça this summer. 🔴🇵🇱 #FCBayern

€35m with add-ons on the table
reports - but now Bayern sources feel it’s still ‘not enough’.

[Fabrizio Romano]

💰 2 bids sent in total for Lewandowski:

❌ €32M fixed + €5M variables (€37M)
⏳ €35M fixed + €5M variables (€40M)

Bayern wants €50M 🤔

Napoli striker Victor Osimhen has been listed alongside four players that are likely to replace outgoing Romelu Lukaku at Chelsea.

Reports claimed Chelsea new owner Todd Boehly drew up a shortlist of five strikers to replace the Inter Milan bound forward.