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@TheAthleticFC Victor Muñoz gave Liverpool something immediate today. For a summer signing who arrived with far less noise, it was a big first statement at Anfield.

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@OptaAnalyst Forest led twice today and still could not make it three straight. Liverpool’s Anfield problem with Forest is still real, but this was the first time in three meetings they found a way not to lose. Previous two, Forest had won, and only one of the 30 before that.

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FIFA recorded $1.37bn in club-agent fees across men’s international transfers in 2025, more than 90% above the 2024 total.

Most individual fees were relatively small, 89.6% were below $1m.

And just 348 payments above $1m accounted for 68.4% of all club spending on agents.

Football’s agent economy is driven by a remarkably narrow tier of major deals.

#FootballBusiness #Transfers

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@reginadacosta2 Absolutely. It is encouraging to see women’s basketball attracting serious capital and being valued for its long-term potential.

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Tottenham have committed £304.5m to Roberto De Zerbi’s rebuild. £100m of it went on Sandro Tonali from Newcastle.

Now his first home league game for Spurs comes against his former club.

Newcastle have won six of the last eight league meetings with Tottenham and three of their last four visits to this stadium. Spurs have also failed to keep a clean sheet in the last 14 meetings.

There is one streak in Tottenham’s favour. They have won their opening home league game in each of the last five seasons, by an aggregate 14-1.

£304.5m spent. Tonali facing Newcastle. One opponent Spurs have repeatedly struggled with.

A very early test of how much this rebuild has actually changed.

#THFC #NUFC

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Nottingham Forest have won just 3 of their last 32 league visits to Anfield. Two of those wins have come in the last two.

Liverpool had gone 30 home league meetings against Forest with only one defeat before losing the next two.
They have also not lost their opening home league game since 2003.

Forest have never won three consecutive league games at Anfield. Today, that is the record they are chasing.

#LFC #NFFC

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Bayern scored a Bundesliga-record 122 goals last season.

That was 51 more than the league’s next-best attack.
They also led the Bundesliga with 635 shots.

Then the new season started like this against Stuttgart
5 goals
4.07 xG
4 different scorers

Bayern did not just break the Bundesliga scoring record last season. The early warning for everyone else is that this attack still looks built to overwhelm Bundesliga defences.

#FCBayern

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Four goal involvements. One of them from the bench.

Rayan Cherki’s first two Premier League appearances for Manchester City

vs Bournemouth - came on after 63 minutes, created both goals in a 2-1 comeback
vs Crystal Palace - scored twice in five second-half minutes

City’s biggest post-Guardiola question was where the creativity would come from after losing so much of the team that supplied Haaland.

Two games in, Cherki already looks like part of the answer.

And now he is scoring as well as creating.

#MCFC

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@NewsArenaIndia Gambhir’s shoutout is justified. Dinusha scored 176 runs through sweep shots in the series, the most by any batter in a Test series according to @TheESPNCricinfo stats. That method was a huge part of why India could not finish him off in Colombo.

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Real Madrid says the rebuilt Bernabéu generated €363m in stadium revenue last season, more than double its pre-renovation figure.

That does not mean concerts alone created the increase. It means the club now has more premium inventory, tourism, hospitality and event capacity to sell around the same physical asset.

The modern stadium is a portfolio of businesses under one roof. #SportsBusiness #StadiumEconomics

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India made Sri Lanka follow on with a 213-run lead. They ended the Test unable to win, and now need at least six victories from their final seven matches to keep their World Test Championship hopes alive.

Sonal Dinusha was the wall India could not break. He had already made 103 in Sri Lanka's first innings, but his unbeaten 133 from 264 balls in the second was the innings that killed India's chance of a 2-0 sweep. Dinusha survived through the final day, first adding 100 with Keshara Nuwantha in a 31.2-over morning partnership and then staying until the end as Sri Lanka reached 429/9. India had spent 243.4 overs in the field across Sri Lanka's two innings and still could not finish the job. Dinusha ended the series with 420 runs and three centuries. Five Tests into his career, he already has 606 Test runs.

For India, the consequence goes well beyond turning a 2-0 series win into 1-0. They remain fifth in the WTC standings at 51.52%, with seven Tests left. Two are away in New Zealand and the final five are at home against Australia. India now need at least six wins from those seven to reach the 2027 final, which means even sweeping Australia 5-0 would still leave them needing a victory in New Zealand.

India dominated much of this series and still won it. But Dinusha's resistance turned one missed victory into a much bigger problem. Their margin for another bad Test has almost disappeared.

#WTC27 #SLvINDIndia made Sri Lanka follow on with a 213-run lead. They ended the Test unable to win, and now need at least six victories from their final seven matches to keep their World Test Championship hopes alive.

Sonal Dinusha was the wall India could not break. He had already made 103 in Sri Lanka's first innings, but his unbeaten 133 from 264 balls in the second was the innings that killed India's chance of a 2-0 sweep. Dinusha survived through the final day, first adding 100 with Keshara Nuwantha in a 31.2-over morning partnership and then staying until the end as Sri Lanka reached 429/9. India had spent 243.4 overs in the field across Sri Lanka's two innings and still could not finish the job. Dinusha ended the series with 420 runs and three centuries. Five Tests into his career, he already has 606 Test runs.

For India, the consequence goes well beyond turning a 2-0 series win into 1-0. They remain fifth in the WTC standings at 51.52%, with seven Tests left. Two are away in New Zealand and the final five are at home against Australia. India now need at least six wins from those seven to reach the 2027 final, which means even sweeping Australia 5-0 would still leave them needing a victory in New Zealand.

India dominated much of this series and still won it. But Dinusha's resistance turned one missed victory into a much bigger problem. Their margin for another bad Test has almost disappeared.

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Streaming did not kill satellite inside sports bars. It made satellite useful in a different way.

EverPass’s new DIRECTV deal delivers NFL Sunday Ticket through both satellite and streaming.

Reliability still matters more than technological purity when 20 screens and a full room depend on one feed.
That hybrid layer is what DAZN is buying.

#SportsBusiness #MediaRights

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Antoine Griezmann entered Atlético Madrid’s first five league matches of 2022–23 in the 62nd, 62nd, 64th, 63rd and 61st minutes.

The timing reportedly mattered because playing at least 45 minutes could move Atlético closer to a €40 million purchase obligation.

They eventually signed him for around €20 million.

Sometimes a substitution is also a negotiation.

#FootballTransfers

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Aston Villa are selling Ollie Watkins for around £50m, then paying up to £65m for Nicolas Jackson.

That £15m gap is the interesting part. Bayern had a £56.25m obligation to buy Jackson last season, but it never triggered because he did not make enough appearances. Villa are now prepared to go above that figure for the same player.

The logic is clear. Jackson is younger, already knows Unai Emery and offers more room to develop. But Villa are still selling the proven Premier League striker for less than they are paying for his replacement.

Villa are betting that Jackson’s upside is worth the premium.

#AVFC

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Unrivaled’s most disruptive idea may not be three-on-three basketball.

It is turning players from hired talent into owners of the asset they promote. The league says the player equity pool is now worth nearly $200m.

That can change who wins the competition for stars long before it changes the game on court. #Unrivaled

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