11:11 AM ET Chelsea are close to signing Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku in a deal thought to be worth €115 million, sources have told ESPN. The move, which will see Lukaku join Chelsea for a second time, is unlikely to involve any players moving in the opposite direction. Marcos Alonso had been linked with
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2:10 PM ET Leicester City beat Premier League champions Manchester City to win the 2021 Community Shield at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, the second in the club’s history. Kelechi Iheanacho beat U.S. keeper Zack Steffen from the penalty spot shortly before full-time to hand Brendan Rodgers’ side the win. – Stream ESPN FC Daily on
5:06 PM ET Associated Press Erling Haaland scored a hat trick as Borussia Dortmund began their German Cup title defense with a 3-0 win over third-division Wehen Wiesbaden on Saturday. The holders attacked from the off and went close through American forward Gio Reyna, but had to wait until the 27th minute for captain Marco
3:38 PM ET Leicester’s Wesley Fofana is set to undergo surgery after suffering a leg injury next week. Malcolm Couzens/Getty Images Wesley Fofana will undergo surgery on Monday that will keep him sidelined until next year after Leicester City manager Brendan Rodgers confirmed that the defender’s broken leg is more serious than initially feared. Fofana, 20,
10:56 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said the club are continuing to monitor goalkeeper Dean Henderson as he struggles to shake off the after effects of COVID-19. Henderson returned a positive test for coronavirus more than three weeks ago but despite since testing negative, Solskjaer said the 24-year-old has
10:46 AM ET Brazil won Olympic gold by beating Brazil in the Tokyo 2020 final on Saturday. Photo by Zhizhao Wu/Getty Images Brazil have more medals than anyone else in men’s Olympic football, and for the second time they have gold after successfully defending the title they won in Rio five years ago with a thrilling
3:53 PM ET LONDON — At the end of a week in which Manchester City broke the Premier League transfer record by making Jack Grealish England’s first £100 million player, Leicester City‘s 1-0 Community Shield victory over the champions at Wembley showed they may need to spend even more on Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane
10:15 AM ET Caitlin Murray The U.S. women’s national team will leave the Tokyo Olympics with a bronze medal in hand, and a final performance that looked a bit more like what we all expected to see from the No. 1-ranked team in the world. The bronze medal game was the first in Japan in
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9:01 AM ET Adriana Garcia Lionel Messi will give a farewell news conference on Sunday at 12 p.m. CET (6 a.m. ET) at the Camp Nou, hours before Barcelona play the Joan Gamper trophy. Sources had told ESPN the 34-year-old had reached an agreement to sign a new five-year deal at Camp Nou, extending his