August 15 – Lionel Messi has brought Inter Miami wins, goals (8 in five games) and now new sponsors in the form of international freight forwarder and logistics service provider Fracht Group, the club’s first global partner of it its new era.
August 14 – Having seemingly smashed the British transfer record by agreeing to lay out £111 million for Ecuadorian international midfielder Moises Caicedo from under the noses of Chelsea, Liverpool are the ones with egg on their face after the player opted to join the London club instead, according to multiple reports.
August 13 – LaLiga has kept up its crusade against Qatari-owned Paris St Germain with its latest complaint being to the European Commission asserting that subsidies received by the club from Qatar distort the market and contravene new European Union Foreign Subsidies Regulation.
August 14 – UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin will hold a meeting with Prime Minister of Greece Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday in Athens to discuss the recent unrest between AEK Athens and Dinamo Zagreb fans.
August 13 – Swiss prosecutors are set to close the investigation of the former attorney general Michael Lauber’s secret meetings with FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
August 14 – After a seemingly interminable impasse with the club’s owners, Kylian Mbappe looks set to remain at Pars St Germain after being reinstated into the first team.
August 14 – FC Barcelona have sold a further 29.5% stake in its digital content division Barca Vision for €120 million to German investors Libero football finance AG and private investors advised by NIPA Capital B.V.
August 14 – Serie A giants AC Milan and Internazionale look set to have different home grounds for the first time in their history after the San Siro, which was due to be demolished, was saved by the Regional Commission for the Cultural Heritage of Lombardy due to its history and cultural significance.
August 14 – England captain Harry Kane says he may need time to adapt to German football and won’t panic if he isn’t scoring.
August 14 – Liverpool continue their hunt for a defensive midfielder in the wake of the high-profile tug-of-war for Caicedo with serial spenders Chelsea, in which the Merseyside club left empty-handed and red-faced. Numerous backup options have been discussed and identified.
August 14 – Makkabi Berlin, a German sports club with Jewish roots, made history on Sunday when it became the first Jewish team to compete in the German Cup – first played under the Nazis in 1935.
August 13 – With the countdown to the AFC Asian Cup Qatar 2023 final now with less than five months to go, the AFC have taken a fan-engagement trip into the history books asking fans to name their all-time Dream XI.
August 13 – Concacaf has released the September schedule for the third edition Nations League that will qualify two teams from the region for the Conmebol Copa America USA 2024 that will see six teams from Concacaf join the South Americans.
By Samindra Kunti in Sydney
August 12 – England capitalised on two defensive blunders to move past Colombia 2-1 and face Australia for a place in the final of the Women’s World Cup later this week.
August 14 – Yet again France fell at the last-eight stage of the Women’s World Cup, but France coach Hervé Renard expressed his pride following Les Bleues’ elimination by millimetres after 20 spot kicks in a match of great drama against co-hosts Australia.