Seems like a sensible compromise, could be abused I guess as a player could just join a club on loan and sign permanently during the next window. Yes, although we've already seen that with Mbappe under the current system. Which is still a deal I'm struggling to understand. Monaco have essentially d...

A worldie from Levante centre-back Chema Rodriguez, a Zidane-esque volley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFHWT2u6pJQ

He has form in this, here's a volley from last season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7NxS-skGIo

Crazy that Argentina struggle so much with Dybala, Messi and Aguero to call on.

Yeah, a couple of quotes say something like 'academy trips out became something like stag do meets hen do.' Personally I think the FA have found a convenient reason to get rid of him (I don't believe Glenn didn't know the full detail before) ahead of a reinvestigation of the racism allegations. The ...

SSN reporting that Mark Sampson (totally innocent, of course, of any of the accusations levelled at him) is to leave his role as head coach of the England women's team. I'll take 'allegations proving to be a distraction to the team' in cliche bingo. Ridiculous..aluko should be ashamed of herself. S...

SSN reporting that Mark Sampson (totally innocent, of course, of any of the accusations levelled at him) is to leave his role as head coach of the England women's team. I'll take 'allegations proving to be a distraction to the team' in cliche bingo.

Would be very welcome if Neymar's leaving saw more Barca performances like last night; great to see more of the role players in the team like Denis Suarez and Paulinho taking some plaudits, even if Messi gets the headlines again.

Failing to address central defence is already coming back to haunt Klopp. He's had a bit of the Wengers about his approach to this - that if he couldn't get Van Dijk then 'no-one else is better than what we have.' He's been working with Lovren for two years and Matip and Klavan for one. At some poin...

Jackson Corner Why do they and other clubs get it so right and we f...k it up?

I think the answer to that is that very few clubs 'get it right' (and in Swansea's case even then it's a struggle).

Swansea, Stoke, Bournemouth (for now) - who else?

Permanent ban hopefully On what basis exactly? All I could see was a bunch of chavs acting rowdy on a train. There's nothing in that video to suggest any criminal act on their part. Don't get me wrong I'm not defending them and it looks pretty blatant that they were the idiots who did the deed but ...

Sutekh Bye 'arry. Who's next for the Birmingham City comedy roadshow....

Paddypower have attracted some (deserved) criticism this morning after (apparently in error) offering odds on Ugo Ehiogu to become the next Birmingham City manager.

Napoli looking genuine title challengers this season. And with a pretty unheralded 30 year old Dries Mertens leading the line.

Dortmund still to concede a goal in the Bundesliga.

Could we see a proper title race in Germany and Italy this season?

Pretty disgraceful challenge from Luiz, a deserved red card. We won't know his intention, but he'd been boiling up all game, and there was more than a small element of trying to hurt Kolasinac. Not going to get into the high foot debate again, I think that's been had, but I think the yellow for his ...

Great result for Spurs. Aurier looks a class signing. Good result for Spurs but lol@ Spurs fans getting carried away by the performance-they were playing mainly against Dortmund Reserves. Dortmund team still contained Aubameyang, Piszczek, Kagawa, Yarmolenko, Gotze, Subotic etc - still loads of qua...

genome If you support Qarabag are you a Qarabag For Life?

So, that was fun. PSG's new super-team showing no indications at all of being anything but that - all three of their forward line scoring, and Mbappe has two in two. A stroll for Chelsea as well - Qarabag weren't that bad last time were they? Couple of markers laid down in Barcelona already - by the...

The point Tony is making, and I don't disagree with him, is that dangerous play is dangerous play - you cant be driven by the end result. The point that was made about the Mane incident being different had it happened in the centre circle is that you might have had two players going for the ball wit...

Brilliant planning by Palace. Evidently De Boer was going to play different football to Big Sam, yet they've given him only four games (and truly only two awful performances) in which to turn it around. If you bring in a manager who is going to play a different style you surely have to accept that t...

Only heard a fragment of Neville's views, but I'd concur that had Mane gone into that challenge with an opposition defender or midfielder it might have played out differently. I can see why Moss got the red card out. Mane was unfortunate - similar to Cahill on the opening day, no malice, barely even...

6ft Kerplunk Glenn Hoddle doing the England games is almost making me wish Andy Townsend was brought back.

I quite like Hoddle, clearly knows his stuff, even if his delivery is a bit whiny.