Hold My Beer 🤙 🍺

Fixtures & Competitions We’re Watching 📺️ 

• Women’s World Cup

• Club Friendlies

• Leagues Cup

Full schedule + where to watch

Starting Lineup 📋️ 

• Kylian Mbappe refuses to hold talks with Al-Hilal despite the Saudi club's world-record offer to sign him from PSG (DM)

• Paris mayor criticizes PSG in handling of Mbappe (WST)

• Tottenham owner pleads not guilty to insider trading charges and posts staggering bond secured by his yacht (SUN)

• Newcastle chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan and PIF COO resign from company associated with takeover (CO)

• FA to recruit and retain 1,000 diverse referees in next three years (SKY)

• FIGC to treat British and Swiss players as EU citizens for purposes of squad registration (FI)

Transfer Market: News, Links, & Rumors 📰 🔗 👂️ 

• Manchester United make offer worth up to £51.4m for Atalanta’s Rasmus Højlund (TG)

• PSG’s Marco Verratti nearing Al Hilal move – opening bid of €30m made (GFFN)

• Everton striker Calvert-Lewin offered to Roma and willing to work with Mourinho (FI)

• Borussia Mönchengladbach target Fabian Rieder of Young Boys has offers from Brentford and Fulham (GGFN)

• Nottingham Forest set to rival Celtic for Leicester City's Wilfried Ndidi (FLW)

• Suarez will not be joining Messi in Miami, says report (WST)

• Tete to Celtic transfer faces Shakhtar fee fight as Donetsk make FIFA demand to avoid 'catastrophe' (DR)

• Nice closing in on the signing of Juventus’ Luca Pellegrini (GFFN)

• Radamel Falcao keen to remain at Rayo Vallecano despite interest from Saudi Arabia (FE)

• Tottenham set to make approach for Chelsea target Elye Wahi (GFFN)

• Real Betis sign former Sevilla and Real Madrid midfielder, Isco, on a one-year deal (BBC)

• Rico Lewis expected to sign new deal for Manchester City (GFN)

• Arsenal set to complete deal for Brazilian midfielder Bitello (DM)

• Lille talks on with Gent for Gift Orban (GFFN)

• Newcastle linked with Arsenal-linked Galatasaray star, Sacha Boey (CO)

On The Ball 💼 

• Romain Peugeot reaches agreement to buy struggling Sochaux (GFFN)

• Crypto investor Fred Chesnais is in talks to buy West Brom for around £60m from owner Guochuan Lai (FLW)

• Tottenham distance themselves from Joe Lewis after insider trading charges (TG)

• Messi effect: Star helps boost Apple's MLS Season Pass to nearly 1M subscribers (DM)

• Where do the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ rank in terms of player sales profit over past 10 years? (CO)

Data Based 📊 

Coaches Box 🏟️ 

• Wolves boss Lopetegui blasts his own club’s transfer dealings (SUN)

Throw Ins ⚽️ 

• Inter confirm Lautaro Martinez as new captain with Barbie reference (FI)

• Inter Miami star Lionel Messi debuts ‘hold my beer’ celebration and David Beckham loved it (TS)

• 5 Liverpool wonderkids hoping to impress Jurgen Klopp in pre-season (PF)

• All 24 Championship stadiums in order of capacity (FLW)

Offsides 👀 

• BBC forced to apologize for 'inappropriate' question at Women's World Cup to Morocco's captain after reporter asks what life was like for her 'gay players' in strict anti-LGBT country (DM)

• Lionel Messi in major security breach as security forced to escort Inter Miami pitch invader away from star (SUN)

• Marcos Antonio hits back at racist Lazio fan (FI)

• Three women’s soccer players sue Butler University for alleged sexual assault by athletic trainer (TA)