VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps suffered their second Leagues Cup upset of the week on Friday, falling 3-1 to FC Juarez.
Jeevan Badwal opened the scoring for Vancouver in the 12th minute, but the club couldn’t hang on to the lead despite outshooting the visitors 27-6 across the game, including a 9-4 edge in on-target shots.
Ettson Ayon equalized for Juarez in the 34th minute and Oscar Estupinan put the visitors ahead with a breakaway in the 74th.
Ricardo Oliveira sealed the score with a long-range blast into an empty net in the fifth minute of stoppage time.
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The Whitecaps came into the tournament between Major League Soccer and LIGA MX clubs seeded ninth, but fell 1-0 to the Mexican league’s 10th-ranked Atlante FC on Tuesday before dropping Friday’s decision to last-place Juarez.
Vancouver will wrap up the tournament’s group stage against Tigres UNAL in San Nicolas, Mexico on Aug. 11.
After the group stage, the top four MLS clubs in the tournament will face the top four LIGA MX sides in the quarterfinals, running from Aug. 25 through 27.
Vancouver skipped Leagues Cup last season after reaching the round of 32 in both the 2023 and 2024 iterations.
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Whitecaps head coach Jesper Sorensen made sweeping changes to his starting lineup for Friday’s game, keeping just four of the players who started in Tuesday’s contest in the initial 11.
The revamped lineup quickly took over, controlling the ball and creating ample scoring chances.
Johnny Selemani — making his first start for the Whitecaps — put a ball in the back of the Juarez net nine minutes in, only to see referee Karen Hernandez Andrade wave the goal off, saying the rookie forward fouled an opponent on the play.
Three minutes later, the ‘Caps got a goal to stand.
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Edier Ocampo ticked a ball to Badwal as he darted into the penalty area and the Canadian midfielder quickly sent a left-footed shot in past keeper Sebastian Jurado to give Vancouver a 1-0 lead.
Twenty minutes into the matchup, the Whitecaps had six shots, including three on target, and a one-goal advantage.
Juarez made good on its best opportunity of the first half.
Jario Torres slipped a ball past Vancouver defender Tristan Blackmon, and his teammate Ayon was there to pick it up and hammer a shot past goalkeeper Isaac Boehmer. The 34th-minute tally levelled the score at 1-1.
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The Whitecaps’ offence took a major hit in the 43rd minute when striker Brian White crumbled to the turf with an apparent lower-body injury. Trainers came out to take a look and signalled for a stretcher, but White eventually walked off the field on his own.
He was replaced by Rayan Elloumi, who came within inches of restoring Vancouver’s lead in the third minute of first-half injury time. His header from in tight was sent just wide of the post off the fingertips of a diving Jurado.
The home side held 56.1 per cent possession across the first half, outshot Juarez 12-2 and held a 4-1 advantage in on-target shots.
The club continued its push in the second half and Elloumi came close yet again in the 64th minute, sliding into the six-yard box in an attempt to send in a cross from J.C. Ngando that landed just beyond his foot.
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It was Juarez that struck again in the 74th minute after Estupinan — who came off the bench for an injured Ayon in the 49th minute — picked up a loose ball in the midfield. He beat the Vancouver defenders up the pitch and popped a shot into the Whitecaps’ net to give the visitors a 2-1 lead.
The Whitecaps continued to dominate possession and peppered the Juarez net with shots, but couldn’t finish on a bevy of chances.
Boehmer came off his goal line to join the attack in the game’s final moments and the LIGA MX side once again took advantage, with Oliveira sending a blast into the yawning goal from the midfield to give Juarez a 3-1 victory.
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.” That was what Matheus Nunes thought and said for at least six months whenever anybody tried to tell him he had the potential to make it as a full-back.
His friends, his family, his close teammates Bernardo Silva and Ruben Dias, his manager Pep Guardiola, and his psychologist all tried at various points to tell the Manchester City midfielder that he should embrace the new role he was being offered and they all received the same response. Even if Guardiola wanted it that way, Nunes wasn’t having it.
And so an unhappy first season at the Etihad became two years of Nunes being frustrated. He couldn’t get minutes in the midfield position he had been bought for, and didn’t want them in the position that he was trialled in from December 2024.
To be fair, most agreed with him after a disastrous start. He had done okay at left-back for 87 minutes against one of the poorest United sides in recent memory in late 2024, but then gave away a penalty as he covered the right-back area and City ended up losing another game horribly in what was an excruciating run for a team coming on the back of four consecutive league titles.
Nunes disappeared from the squad for a month after what he considers his lowest point at the club, and even when he was tried again it wasn’t enough to allow him to feel comfortable.
“I’m not going to lie, individually I would say this is probably the most difficult game,” he said of the December derby. “When you do mistakes as a midfielder, you would never affect the game like the effect of that one.
“I did one mistake and it led to a goal, and then you end up losing the game and that’s all you think in your head, you know? But it was not only that, it was me coming to a place where it was uncomfortable for me, a position where it was uncomfortable for me, not being able to accept it, because I wasn’t accepting it.
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“In my head, ‘I’m not a full-back. I’m not a full-back’. That’s all I was thinking about. And yeah, I mean, it was difficult. You said six months, but I didn’t play every single game, you know what I mean? But [last] season I played every single game, and then it’s different.
“Even if I was playing, for example, one game, and then I would be five games on the bench and then I would play again as a full-back, it’s six months in total, but you played maybe 10 games or you played 15 games. So yeah, I didn’t have the consistency that I wanted to actually be comfortable in this position and to change my head around.
“I spoke to so many people. I have a psychologist, I spoke to my friends. I would tell my friends all the time, ‘I’m not a full-back, I’m not a full-back’. And they would always say, no, but you play so good there, you play so good. The team-mates, Bernardo and Ruben, were so annoying all the time as well, they were in my head constantly as well, ‘You were good there, you were good there. You need to accept it.’ And I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All the time.
“But at a certain point you just have to see what the people are saying. You can’t be denying it for the rest of your life. If you do, maybe you miss your chance. And if I did that I would have missed it. So yeah, listening to everyone then actually seeing Pep during training and before the games as well, the way he believed in me once I changed to that position, I felt there was a bit of a difference also in the way that we interacted with each other after I played there.
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“I don’t know, this stuff, you just feel it, it’s not something that I can explain. I just feel it. And once you start seeing all of this stuff, it changes the mindset. It was not easy, of course, but I had a decision to make: do I want to play or do I not want to play? And I wanted to play.
“Now I feel like a full-back. There is no difference for me, playing as a midfielder or a full-back.”
The Club World Cup last summer was pivotal for Nunes to make the switch in his mind. He had more than one game where he felt able to get into attacking areas and influence the game like he had done from midfield, and while the two roles are not so similar the Portugal international began to stop feeling like full-back prevented him from doing what he wanted to do.
As the 27-year-old began to accept that higher cost of mistakes as a defender but also get better in that area, he grew happier. And not only did that help the team on the pitch but the dressing room found that one of its jokers could laugh even louder.
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Nunes knew Silva and Dias through Portugal and had instantly clicked with John Stones on account of them both being wind-up merchants. He is somebody who loves to laugh and joke, keeping an extra eye on the fixture list so he can remember to ‘p*** off’ his Sunderland-supporting dad if they have a row.
But he found it difficult to fully clown around while he struggled to accept his role in the team, so learning to love right-back was liberating. And yes, he does know all about the Cafunes nickname given to him that has become popular in and out of the dressing room.
“This started with Bernardo, actually! When I was playing as a winger, he would call me Thierry Henry. Then I played as a full back and he called me Cafu. It was different people giving me different nicknames in the club. My friends started calling it me as well and I had to accept it.
“I would say the three of us [with Stones and Silva] are the jokers of the team. It’s always good to have a laugh — what’s the point of life if you’re not having a laugh? And these are the people that you spend most of your time with, you spend more time with these guys than with your family.
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“Sometimes you get sick of them because you see them so many times. And if you don’t have a good environment, there’s no point in being there, you don’t want to be working in a place where the vibe is not good. I just try to do that, and trying to be happy. I’m not trying anything, actually. I’m just being myself, and then I end up being a clown sometimes. It’s just the way it is.”
Having battled with Guardiola over his position, Nunes noticed that the manager changed towards him when he embraced the right-back role. Regular conversations with Guardiola and his assistants Kolo Toure and Pep Lijnders helped him to hone the role and he became one of the manager’s most used players, with only Erling Haaland getting more minutes than him last season.
Nunes grew so close to Guardiola that even two months after the day he found out he was leaving there is a wobble in his voice as he describes the moment. The manager had gathered them all in a meeting room at the training ground in the final week of the season and put a video on of everything that they had all achieved together over the past 10 years complete with candid speeches and conversations from the inner sanctum of the Etihad.
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“It was unexpected. We thought there was a chance of him leaving but until he actually says it you don’t know if it’s going to happen.” he said. “He spoke to us in the auditorium and it was a very emotional day. A lot of people were crying. It’s very hard to say goodbye to someone who gave so much to us all.
“Someone who put the club to a level that seems unreachable again. What he did was unbelievable. It is difficult to talk about. I remember in that day, when you start to see everything on the screen, it becomes real that he is leaving. It didn’t seem real. It felt weird and awkward to actually have to believe it. A lot of things are going to change. I’ve never been in the club without him. Stuff like this. It’s never easy to say goodbye.”
City had to move on, and Nunes is now one of the senior players in what has become a significantly younger squad over the last 18 months. There are only a handful of players who won the Treble that are reunited with new boss Enzo Maresca, with Nunes part of the 2023 intake that must now set the standards in the squad.
Despite that, the importance of jokers in a dressing room never goes away and the former Wolves star has even more on his shoulders with the departures of Stones and Silva. Nunes will continue to set standards on the pitch, particularly given the club have decided against signing a right-back this summer, but he will also remind his teammates of the message that has helped him win trophies and successfully adapt a new role.
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“It’s not the change that worried me. Even ourselves, you have to remember what they have done. When you think about it, it is almost impossible to win six Premier Leagues in 10 years. This is not normal and people forget that,” he said.
“City is such a huge club and you think, ‘ah City is going to win every year’ but Liverpool is a big club, United, Arsenal, Chelsea are big clubs. They all think the same. It’s never easy. You need to be perfect at a lot of levels. We have to remind ourselves. We’re going to try, we’re always going to try and will give our best but sometimes football is just one detail. It’s not the end of the world if you don’t win.
“I recently saw a basketball player [Giannis Antetokounmpo] asked: ‘Do you look at this season as a failure because you didn’t win the championship?’ He said that if you go to work and don’t get a promotion, is that a failure? It’s not like you work the whole season for one goal and if not it’s a failure. Sometimes you have to go through a year or two of not winning to get to the win. Maybe it will be different [for us], who knows? Maybe it won’t. The club deserves us to try.”
NEW DELHI: Sarfaraz Khan‘s place in India’s Test plans appears increasingly uncertain, but the Mumbai batter has made it clear that he is not ready to give up.Amid his continued absence from the national squad, Sarfaraz shared a cryptic Instagram story recently, posting a still from the 2019 Telugu film Jersey with a message that appeared to reflect his current situation.“I may not fit in, but I’ll fight with everything I’ve got.”The post quickly caught the attention of Indian cricket fans, coming just days before India begin their two-Test series against Sri Lanka. Sarfaraz was once again overlooked for the series despite boasting one of the strongest first-class records among India’s middle-order contenders.The 28-year-old has averaged an extraordinary 64.73 in 62 first-class matches but has played only six Tests for India. He was part of India’s squad for the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy but did not feature in a single game Down Under.
Sarfaraz Khan
From Test century to selection uncertainty
Sarfaraz’s omission is particularly notable given the impact he made during India’s home series against New Zealand in 2024.He scored a memorable 150 in the first Test in Bengaluru, one of the few positives from a series in which India suffered a historic 0-3 whitewash at home. However, he struggled to replicate that success in the remainder of the series and managed a highest score of only 11 thereafter.He was subsequently included in India’s squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy but did not feature in the series. Since then, opportunities to reclaim his place have remained scarce.Sarfaraz was also part of the India A setup during the England tour but remained on the fringes, suggesting that the selectors currently have other options ahead of him in the Test pecking order.
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Fitness transformation, IPL comeback
Fitness had also been a recurring talking point around Sarfaraz, but the Mumbai batter has since undergone a significant transformation, shedding weight and improving his conditioning.He also returned to the IPL in 2026 after going unsold in the previous two auctions. Chennai Super Kings handed him an opportunity and Sarfaraz responded with 161 runs at a strike rate of 169.47, including two half-centuries.India are currently playing a three-day warm-up game in Colombo ahead of the series, with the first Test scheduled to begin in Galle on August 15 and the second at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo.
Elias’ representatives have already received ‘concrete signals’ from interested parties. United’s scouts were tasked with observing Elias up close after assessments of his recent performances.
It is claimed that Old Trafford bosses were told that the Shakhtar ace holds the ‘potential to develop into a top-level centre-forward.’
It was also said that Elias would slot into United’s system well. He is said to have been described as ‘highly compatible with United’s press-heavy, fast-transition system.’
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United and Arsenal are set to face competition from AC Milan and FC Porto.
Kaua Elias is drawing interest(Image: Mikolaj Barbanell/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Aug 7, 2026; Dallas, Texas, USA; Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams (1) controls the ball as Dallas Wings guard Paige Bueckers (5) defends during the first half at American Airlines Center. Mandatory Credit: Chris Jones-Imagn Images
Veronica Burton scored 22 points, 13 of them in the second half, to help carry the visiting Golden State Valkyries to a definitive 94-76 win over the Dallas Wings on Friday in the American Airlines Center, the Wings’ home away from home.
The Valkyries (22-9) went to halftime up by eight points before building a 20-point edge late in the third period. Dallas made a tepid rally early in the fourth quarter but got no closer than 11 points as Golden State easily held on to capture its third straight game and its 12th in its past 14 outings.
The Wings (19-13) have dropped two consecutive contests and four of their past five.
Gabby Williams added 19 points for Golden State, with Kayla Thornton racking up 11 points and 10 rebounds. The Valkyries outshot Dallas 46.5% to 33.9% and had a massive 27-8 edge in assists.
Paige Bueckers led the Wings with 17 points but scored just four of those after halftime. Aziaha James added 13, Alanna Smith hit for 11 points and Jessica Shepard led Dallas with 11 rebounds. Rookie guard Azzi Fudd, the league’s No. 1 draft pick in April, missed the game with a sore right knee.
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The Wings led for most of the first quarter. The Wings were up 21-20 with 1:05 to play in the period before Golden State reeled off the final six points, all coming from Tiffany Hayes at the free throw line, to grab a 26-21 lead after 10 minutes of play.
The Valkyries pushed the margin to as many as nine points after a three-point play by Williams at the 3:52 mark of the second period. Dallas cut its deficit to five points when Bueckers canned a jumper with 20 seconds remaining. But Williams had the final word of the half, hitting a 3-pointer with 3 seconds to play that granted Golden State a 44-36 edge at the break.
Bueckers led all players with 13 points before halftime on 5 of 7 shooting from the floor. Williams paced the Valkyries with a dozen points as Golden State held the Wings to just 32.3% shooting over the first two quarters.
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The Valkyries opened the third quarter with a 10-2 run and eventually stokes their advantage to 56-39 after a running layup by Burton with 6:51 left in the period.
Dallas clawed to within 12 points when Bueckers hit a jump shot with 3:30 remaining but Golden State swung back, getting five straight points from Kaila Charles to expand the margin to 71-52.
Man Utd play PSG in Sweden for their fourth pre-season game of the summer on Saturday afternoon.
Michael Carrick is expected to hand Youri Tielemans his Manchester United pre-season debut against Paris Saint-Germain, but the midfielder is likely to be introduced for the second half.
United will take on PSG at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg on Saturday afternoon. The new season is just a few weeks away, and senior players will be given priority as the team steps up their preparations.
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Bruno Fernandes is back in the squad, and he is expected to return to the XI, with Mason Mount and Andrey Santos retaining their deeper starting roles in midfield.
Tielemans is set to get a chance to show what he can do from the bench following his £35million arrival from Aston Villa.
Diogo Dalot looks poised to return at right-back. Leny Yoro has started each pre-season game at right-back so far, but it seems likely he will be relocated to centre-back alongside Harry Maguire.
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Luke Shaw will retain his starting role at left-back, so the back four will mirror what is likely to start on the opening day of the Premier League season against Hull on August 22.
Joshua Zirkzee lost his place last weekend, with Carrick preferring Bryan Mbeumo down the middle, and there is no reason to think the United boss will revert to playing the Dutchman up front again.
Amad and Patrick Dorgu are set to start on the right and left respectively, which would mean Shea Lacey missing out.
Predicted United XI vs PSG: Heaton, Dalot, Yoro, Maguire, Heaven, Shaw, Santos, Mount, Fernandes, Amad, Mbeumo, Dorgu.
The 2026 Wyndham Championship continues on Saturday, Aug. 8, with the third round at Sedgefield Country Club in North Carolina. You can find full Wyndham Championship tee times for Saturday’s third round at the bottom of this post.
Wyndham Championship Round 3 tee times: What to know
This week’s Wyndham Championship offers a final opportunity for players to move into the coveted top 70 in the FedEx Cup points ranking, thereby cementing their status for next season as well as punching their ticket into next week’s FedEx St. Jude, the first tournament of the FedEx Cup playoff series.
For some players in the field — like Brooks Koepka, who is currently ranked 86th — it will likely take a win to gain entry. After firing opening rounds of 67-66, Koepka is T20 at seven under par. That finish is not projected to improve his standing at all.
But 23-year-old Ben James is a different story. The UVA alum is 11 under par — currently one shot shy of Beau Hossler’s 36-hole lead at 12 under par. If James can manage to notch his first PGA Tour victory, he’s projected to launch himself all the way from No. 141 to No. 62. A runner-up finish, though, would only lift him to No. 96.
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Hossler, too, has a lot on the line. Currently No. 122, the 31-year-old could ascend to No. 53 with a win on Sunday.
In short: there’s plenty of drama in store at the PGA Tour’s regular season finale this weekend.
Hossler will play in the final tee time on Saturday alongside James at 1:55 p.m. ET, while Kopeka will tee off with Tyler Collet at 12 p.m. ET.
You can watch Saturday’s third round of the 2026 Wyndham Championship from 1-3 p.m. ET on Golf Channel, followed by the CBS broadcast from 3-6 p.m. ET. PGA Tour Live on ESPN+ will provide exclusive early streaming coverage starting at 7:45 a.m. ET on Saturday, in addition to featured group and featured hole coverage.
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Check out the complete Round 3 tee times and groupings for the Wyndham Championship below.
OLTEWAH, Tenn. — For the third straight day, Mother Nature showed no mercy at the U.S. Women’s Amateur.
Just as was the case on Wednesday and Thursday here at the Honors Course, wild weather conditions halted play Friday afternoon with all eight Round of 16 matches underway. Unlike the first two days, though, on Friday play never resumed.
After nearly three hours of rain and repeated lightning flashes, the USGA suspended the matches for the remainder of the day, citing unsafe conditions. Play is expected to resume Saturday at 7 a.m. ET.
As the course was assessed for potential damage, a tree behind the 18th green was discovered to have been struck by lightning. The tree sustained a long vertical gash, while bark and pieces of wood were scattered throughout the surrounding area. One piece of debris was even driven into the side of a nearby practice green. It remains unclear whether the storm caused any additional damage to the course.
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Among the most intriguing story lines is 14-year-old Maggie Jiayi Ma of Irvine, Calif., who is the youngest player in the 156-player field and making a run at becoming the youngest champion in Women’s Amateur history. In her Round of 16 match against U.S. Girls’ Junior champion Clairey Lin, Ma is tied through four holes.
Jordan Coyle was the riding star of day one of the Gallagher Dublin Horse Show 2026 as the Derry rider won two of the classes in the International Arena.
He won the Laya Arena Stakes in the early afternoon and followed up with success in the day’s feature contest, the CSIO5* Sport Ireland Classic this evening.
In the 1.55m class, a total of 55 combinations – 16 of them from Ireland – took up the challenge of the Alan Wade-designed course.
The home representatives dominated the class, taking six of the first seven places.
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Coyle and the nine-year-old chestnut ran out winners with a clear round in a time of 65.49 seconds.
Their nearest rivals were Cork’s Shane Sweetnam with Pia Maria H. The mare also produced a clear round, as she stopped the clock at 66.97 seconds.
The all-Irish podium was completed by Tipperary’s Tom Wachman. Riding the Coolmore Showjumping-owned Do It Easy, they left all fences in tact as they crossed the finishing line with a clear in 67.99 seconds.
Elena Rybakina plays Ann Li of the United States during day six of the National Bank Open Presented by Rogers at Sobeys Stadium on August 07, 2026 in Toronto, Ontario. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP
Reigning Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina advanced to the fourth round of the WTA Toronto Masters on Friday while French Open winner Mirra Andreeva was eliminated by Canada’s Leylah Fernandez.
World number two Rybakina from Kazakhstan defeated American 28th seed Ann Li 6-2, 7-5 in 90 minutes, winning five of six break chances while saving two of four against her.
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Rybakina, who also won the 2022 Wimbledon title, advanced to a last-16 meeting with Russia’s Liudmila Samsonova, who outlasted Australian Maya Joint 7-5, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2.
Samsonova leads the career rivalry with Rybakina 4-2, but Rybakina has won their past two WTA meetings, most recently in last year’s Strasbourg final.
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Fernandez, the 30th seed, dispatched 19-year-old fifth-ranked Russian Andreeva 6-1, 6-4 in 80 minutes, snapping a seven-match losing streak against top-10 opponents.
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Fernandez last beat a player ranked so high when she downed fourth-rated Jessica Pegula on her way to last year’s WTA Washington title.
“The key for me was to stay positive, stay strong, and to keep being patient,” Fernandez said. “She wasn’t going to give away some easy balls.”
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The Canadian left-hander won 24 of 27 points on her first serve and captured 17 of 23 points on Andreeva’s second serves to advance. Andreeva made 34 unforced errors to 17 winners.
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“I’ve put in the work. I know physically I’m strong. I know I can endure long rallies, long matches,” Fernandez said. “So if it’s going to take 100 balls to hit to put it in to break her down, then so be it.”
Fernandez will next face four-time Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka, the 11th seed from Japan who defeated Belgium’s 20th-seeded Elise Mertens 6-1, 6-2 in 71 minutes.
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Osaka fired seven aces and took four of eight break points while denying Mertens on her three break chances.
Fernandez and Osaka have split two career meetings, the Canadian winning at the 2021 US Open on the way to a runner-up finish. Osaka won last year at Wuhan.
“It’s tough because she’s lefty,” Osaka said. “Obviously there aren’t many lefties on tour, so it takes me awhile to get used to that. She has a really good attitude. I’ve never seen her down. She always keeps fighting. I really appreciate that about her.”
Coco Gauff, Alex Eala advance
Philippines’ Alexandra Eala celebrates a point against United States’ Caty McNally during a National Bank Open tennis match in Toronto on Friday, Aug. 7, 2026. (Chris Young/The Canadian Press via AP)
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US fourth seed Coco Gauff, a two-time Grand Slam winner, advanced by defeating Greece’s Maria Sakkari 6-1, 6-4 in 76 minutes.
Gauff cruised to a 5-1 lead in the second set before Sakkari rallied within two points of pulling level before winning five of the last six points, taking the match on a backhand volley winner and service winner.
“I’m happy with how I played. Maria is a tough opponent,” Gauff said. “Her level definitely raised toward the end of that second set but I’m glad I was able to close it out. That last game was a big test for me.”
Gauff will next face 19-year-old Russian Alina Korneeva, who ousted US 13th seed Iva Jovic 6-3, 6-4. Korneeva won seven of eight break points to reach the last 16 after 82 minutes.
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Alex Eala, the 21-year-old Filipino left-hander who won her first WTA title Monday at Washington, reached the fourth round by defeating American Caty McNally 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.
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Eala had her right ankle taped by a trainer leading 3-2 in the second set, was broken at love in the sixth game and pushed to a third set before taking the victory after two hours and 39 minutes.
World number 20 Eala next faces Swiss 12th seed Belinda Bencic, who outlasted American Taylor Townsend 6-7 (5/7), 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 after three hours and 24 minutes.
Real Madrid have officially announced the signing of Yan Diomandé from RB Leipzig on a deal running until 2033. The transfer, worth €125 million plus €15 million in add-ons, becomes the most expensive in the Spanish club’s history. At just 19 years old, the Ivory Coast international also becomes the most expensive African player of all time.
Vinicius has extended his contract with Real Madrid until 2032 after several months of uncertainty over his future.
Paris Saint-Germain have also confirmed the arrival of Maghnes Akliouche from Monaco. The France international has signed a five-year deal in a transfer worth €50 million.
At Trabzonspor, Mohamed Salah was unveiled in front of tens of thousands of supporters following his departure from Liverpool.
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In cycling, Kim Le Court-Pienaar won stage six of the Tour de France Femmes ahead of Cédrine Kerbaol and Puck Pieterse. Marlen Reusser retains the yellow jersey with a 12-second lead over Demi Vollering.
In tennis, Gaël Monfils was knocked out by Learner Tien (6-3, 0-6, 6-3) in his final appearance at the Montreal Masters 1000. Arthur Fils reached the last 16 after beating Mariano Navone (6-3, 6-2).
Finally, at the WTA 1000 event in Toronto, Iga Swiatek, Jessica Pegula and Marta Kostyuk also booked their places in the last 16.
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