Summer of Chairs 🪑🤣

Fixtures & Competitions We’re Watching 📺️ 

• Mexico Liga MX Apertura

• EURO U19 Semis

• Club Friendlies

Full schedule + where to watch

Starting Lineup 📋️ 

• Barcelona to avoid punishment from investigation into El Caso Negreira (FE)

• Al-Nassr banned by FIFA from signing players for failure to pay transfer fees from 2018 signing (WST)

• USL to vote on adopting promotion and relegation (WST)

• Real Madrid called to answer unexplained €122m expenses in club accounts (FE)

• FIFA rules complicating Robin Koch's permanent Leeds exit (FLW)

Transfer Market: News, Links, & Rumors 🪟 

• Barcelona confirm €61m signing of striker Vitor Roque wanted by Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United (CO)

• Paris Saint-Germain reportedly make low initial offer for Napoli’s Victor Osimhen (GIFN)

• Saudi Arabian club submit offer for Barcelona winger Raphinha (GSFN)

• Aston Villa are set to table a first bid for Bayer Leverkusen star Moussa Diaby (DM)

• PSV eyeing move for VfL Wolfsburg midfielder Aster Vranckx (GDFN)

• Rodrigo leaving Leeds to team up with two ex-Premier League stars at Qatari side Al Rayyan (SUN)

• Marseille to agree deal to sign Renan Lodi from Atlético Madrid (GFFN)

• RB Leipzig reach agreement with Lens to sign Loïs Openda (GGFN)

• Wolves' Raul Jimenez is set for Adana Demirspor move after meeting with manager Patrick Kluivert (DM)

• Lazio ask Chelsea for Hudson-Odoi (FI)

• Saudi Arabia increase offer for Juventus’ Paul Pogba (GIFN)

• Valencia target Sevilla striker Rafa Mir as Edinson Cavani’s possible replacement (GSFN)

• Fulham reject Al-Hilal’s £25.5m Mitrovic bid (TG)

• PSG sign Italian youth international Cher Ndour (GFFN)

• West Ham edging close to agreement with Juventus for Denis Zakaria (GIFN)

• Borussia Mönchengladbach considering a transfer for USMNT’s Brandon Vazquez (GGFN)

On The Ball 💼 

• Pro golfers Jordan Spieth and Justin Thomas join 49ers group buying Leeds United ownership stake (BR)

• Real Madrid to secure €561m parking contract next to Santiago Bernabeu (FE)

• Cristiano Ronaldo invests in an online luxury watch marketplace (DM)

• De Laurentiis confirms Meluso as new Napoli sporting director (FI)

• How much soccer clubs earn from shirt sales (WST)

Data Based 📊 

Coaches Box 🏟️ 

• Philadelphia Union sign head coach Jim Curtin to multi-year contract extension (SBI)

• PSG boss Luis Enrique demanded total control over the squad before joining (DM)

• Pep Guardiola's former assistant opens up on decision to leave Man City for MLS (MEN)

Throw Ins ⚽️ 

• Wrexham unveil new black third kit that they were banned from using in the National League (DM)

• Photo: EA Sports release their cover for FC24 game (CO)

• Lionel Messi promotes Women’s World Cup in new beer ad (WST)

• Kylian Mbappe has business with NBA and shares a bond with LeBron James - will he go to MLS one day? (DM)

• The 10 most expensive Spanish footballers of all time (90MIN)

Offsides 👀 

• Fulham fan banned from football for homphobic chant, will face fine (CO)

• Cristiano Ronaldo may testify in new Football Leaks trial as Rui Pinto faces 377 charges (MN)

• Federico Valverde to be notified of possible LaLiga suspension in the next two weeks (FE)

• Ex-Verratti agent: ‘PSG imprison and blackmail players’ (FI)