Goat Knees 🐐🦵

Fixtures & Competitions We’re Watching 📺️ 

• CONCACAF Gold Cup Semis

• MLS

• Club Friendlies

Full schedule + where to watch

Starting Lineup 📋️ 

• FIFA backs down on covering up names of Aussie sports greats at Allianz Stadium for World Cup (DM)

• Barcelona to start new LaLiga season behind closed doors after sanction is handed out (FE)

• Globe Soccer announce new Best Player in Europe Award (DM)

• Carlo Ancelotti to stand trial after being accused of defrauding almost €400k (FE)

• David Beckham helps paint Lionel Messi mural ahead of groundbreaking Inter Miami move (MN)

• Neymar returns to training with PSG after ankle surgery (GFFN)

Transfer Market: News, Links, & Rumors 🔀 

• Sources: Kane keen on Bayern Munich transfer (ESPN)

• Al Hilal offer £59.8m for Man City star, Bernardo Silva; willing to pay huge salary (CO)

• Chelsea set to bid for Lyon's Rayyan Cherki (ESPN)

• PSG sounds out move for Juventus striker Vlahovic (FI)

• Al-Ahli make offer for Napoli’s Piotr Zielinski (GIFN)

• Newcastle United could make offer for Jesper Lindstrøm this week (GIFN)

• Bayer Leverkusen interested in Werder Bremen’s Niclas Füllkrug (GGFN)

• Héctor Bellerín to sign long-term contract with Real Betis (GSFN)

• Union Berlin working on a loan for Chelsea youngster David Fofana (GGFN)

• Khéphren Thuram expected to remain at Nice for another season (GFFN)

• Fulham agree personal terms with Fiorentina’s Igor (GIFN)

• Al-Hilal present mega-offer to Galatasaray’s Zaniolo (FI)

• Bournemouth to sign Lyon midfielder Romain Faivre for €16m and loan him to Lorient (GFFN)

• Anderlecht competing with Valencia for Brentford’s Sergi Canos (GBFN)

• Tottenham considering summer move for Juventus defender, Gleison Bremer (CO)

On The Ball 💼 

• FC Juarez owners poised to buy newly-promoted LaLiga team (WST)

• Serie A announce partnership with Roc Nation Sports (FI)

• Standard Liege owners 777 looking for €200m to add Premier League club to their portfolio (GBFN)

• Sochaux heading for bankruptcy ahead of DNCG hearing (GFFN)

• Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke ramps up plan to build new stadium for his MLS team, Colorado Rapids (MN)

Data Based 📊 

Coaches Box

• Who are the Bundesliga's coaches in 2023/24? (BN)

• Former USMNT interim head coach Dave Sarachan joins Maccabi Tel Aviv (SBI)

• Former Brazil boss Tite is ready to take on Europe and the Premier League (DM)

• Stoke City name former Potters and Preston striker, Paul Gallagher, as first-team coach (BBC)

Throw Ins

• Lionel Messi leaves fans bewildered after posting snap of unusual knees (FE)

• Former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg reveals the worst players that he dealt with (DM)

• Inside PSG’s £250m lavish new training complex with luxury pools as fans joke players will spend half the time lost (SUN)

• MLS needs investment in depth to manage fixture congestion (ESPN)

Offsides

• Woman dies after struck by bottle at Palmeiras v Flamengo game in Brazil (ESPN)

• Nasser Al-Khelaifi’s former assistant files second complaint (GFFN)

• Minister for Sport scrambles to defend Jankto comments (FI)

• Christian Benteke jokes he has been 'done dirty' by EA Sports in new viral FC24 clip (DM)

• Hilarious reason why Neil Warnock once brought on a random 14-year-old lad in pre-season (SUN)