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Chelsea‘s list of squad numbers for the 2026-27 campaign has been released and Liam Delap has lost the No. 9 shirt to João Pedro. Delap will now wear the No. 12 shirt. João Pedro scored 20 goals in all competitions for the Blues last season, while Delap managed just one goal in the Premier League and one in the Champions League. Delap joined Chelsea from Ipswich last June on a…

Inter Milan have agreed a deal to sign Liverpool midfielder Curtis Jones, sources have told ESPN. The Serie A club will pay an initial €30m for the 25-year-old, with the potential for a further €5m in performance-related add-ons. The deal was agreed late on Wednesday night and the player has now been given permission to travel for a medical. Inter had attempted to sign Jones in January and had seen…

BARCELONA, Spain — Barcelona rounded off preseason with a 2-1 victory over Al Ahly in the Joan Gamper Trophy on Wednesday as Anthony Gordon missed a penalty on his Spotify Camp Nou debut. Egypt striker Hamza Abdelkarim, still only 18, opened the scoring for Barça in the first half to take his goal tally in preseason to four, this time netting against his former club. – Source: Barça end Álvarez…

Marcus Rashford expressed his desire to focus on playing football without his “name being mentioned every day” in response to Gary Neville attempting to start a discussion about the Manchester United forward. The 28-year-old replied to a teaser clip for an upcoming episode of the Stick to Football podcast in which Jamie Carragher expressed his frustration when co-host and former Man United star Neville asks for thoughts on Rashford. Rashford…

Harry Kane said he no longer has the same “itch” to return to the Premier League as he did when he first left Tottenham Hotspur for Bayern Munich three years ago. England captain Kane has enjoyed huge success with the Bavarian giants, helping them win the last two Bundesliga titles to end his wait for major silverware. And on Wednesday he received the European Golden Shoe for the second time…

United States forward Haji Wright has been ruled out for up to 12 weeks with a quad injury in a major blow to Coventry City for their return to the Premier League. Coventry will play their first Premier League game in 25 years as they open the season at the home of champions Arsenal on Friday. But manager Frank Lampard has confirmed that Wright won’t be involved after missing recent…

Christian Pulisic returned to training with AC Milan on Tuesday for the first time since suffering an injury as the United States exited the World Cup in the round of 16. Pulisic sustained a bone bruise and microfracture in his lower leg seven minutes into the second half of the U.S. men’s national team’s 4-1 defeat to Belgium on July 6, when he attempted to take a shot on goal…

Frank Lampard wants his Coventry City side to take inspiration from Sunderland and Leeds United as they prepare for a first Premier League campaign in 25 years. Sunderland and Leeds both avoided the drop comfortably last season, becoming the first newly-promoted teams to survive in the top flight since the 2022-23 campaign. Coventry, who start by travelling to champions Arsenal on Friday, are odds-on with many bookmakers to be relegated…

Howard Webb, the head of Premier League referees, has said he was “troubled” by Folarin Balogun‘s overturned red card during the World Cup as it fuelled perceptions among supporters that decisions are either “correct or corrupt.” United States forward Balogun triggered an automatic suspension by being sent off for a foul on Bosnia-Herzegovina‘s Tarik Muharemovic during a 2-0 round-of-32 win for Mauricio Pochettino’s team. But the 25-year-old’s one-game suspension was…