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Kyra Cooney-Cross, Steph Catley and Caitlin Foord share their resolve to win domestic honours and World Cup highlights “When you see people giving everything they’ve got, you can’t help but be like: ‘I want to watch more, I want to support you, I want to back you,’” says the Arsenal full-back Steph Catley. “That’s what [fans] see in our team. Especially towards the end of last year, knowing how much we’d been through, losing so many of our teammates to injury, seeing we were absolutely giving everything – you can’t help but love a team that does that.” Arsenal are back on Sunday, playing Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium in their opening WSL game with a crowd of more than 50,000 expected, ready to continue carrying a new fanbase with them on the next phase of their journey. Continue reading...

* US private equity firm Dynasty Equity pays about $100m-$200m * Money used to pay off debt and will not go into January transfers Fenway Sports Group has sold a minority stake in Liverpool to the US private equity firm Dynasty Equity. The deal ends FSG’s search for investment and will be used to pay off debts. FSG and Dynasty, an investment firm that specialises in buying minority stakes in sports franchises, have not revealed the financial details of the deal but it is in the region of $100m-$200m (£82m-£164m). The investment does not equate to a “transfer war chest” for the manager, Jürgen Klopp. It will pay down bank debt incurred during the pandemic, capital expenditure on the new Anfield Road stand, the new Axa training centre and the repurchase of Melwood training ground, and acquisitions in the recent transfer window. Continue reading...

* Former Spain manager has been summoned to appear in court * Vilda appeared to back Luis Rubiales amid World Cup fallout The former coach of Spain’s women’s football team, Jorge Vilda, has been put under investigation as the country’s highest criminal court continues to look into Luis Rubiales’s unsolicited kiss. On Wednesday the court said that Vilda, who was sacked less than a month after La Roja won the World Cup, had been summoned to appear in court on 10 October. The statement did not detail why Vilda is being investigated. Continue reading...

A full-throated appreciation of an opposition manager before kick‑off is rare, and even rarer before a competitive match, the result of which – a late 2-1 defeat of England by the Netherlands – could prove incredibly important to Olympic qualification and Euro 2025 seeding. Sarina Wiegman’s homecoming was not pretty, for her or England, with a lack of VAR helping to punish England’s profligacy, gifting the Dutch an offside opener. However, this was a result that had been coming, England have been winning ugly and in Utrecht their luck ran out. Continue reading...

* All Russian teams barred since invasion of Ukraine last year * Aleksander Ceferin rules out further softening of ban Uefa has decided to end its blanket ban on Russian teams by allowing the country’s under-17 sides into its competitions from this season. All Russian teams, at club and international levels, have been barred from Uefa events since Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But plans are being drawn up to partially relax those rules and allow minors to compete, using the justification that children should not be punished for the actions of adults. Continue reading...

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now! Since taking over Chelsea, Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali have spent so much money trying to emulate a certain Premier League club on the south coast that it’s a wonder they didn’t just buy Brighton in the first place. They hired Brighton’s manager and his team of five backroom staff, just two of whom – a goalkeeping coach and data analyst – are still at the club just over a year on. They bought Marc Cucurella, followed more recently by Robert Sánchez and Moisés Caicedo from Brighton, as well as poaching the Seagulls’ head of player recruitment. In all, Chelsea have contributed more than £220m to the Brighton war chest in the past 13 months – the cost of more than two Amex Stadiums, 84 Kaoru Mitomas or 44,000,000 consecutive goes on “the speed demon of Brighton Palace Pier” that is the Turbo Coaster (minimum height: 1m 03cm). Having had a modicum of success in the last few decades of letter-writing to this publication, achieving a...

Exclusive: document shows rights to national teams, A-Leagues and data of all football participants, including children, was part of possible deal Football Australia explored selling off rights to the Matildas, Socceroos and the A-Leagues for 99 years in what would have been an unprecedented privatisation of football in Australia, Guardian Australia can reveal. The deal could have also involved commercialising the data of all Australian football participants, including children as young as four, in a proposal that raised significant privacy concerns. Continue reading...