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• Named: The seven Premier League youngsters who have shone in pre-season and could stake a claim to feature in the first-team7 August 2026, 9:00 pm
  Daily Mail Sport runs the rule over the youngsters who have staked the greatest claim to earn Premier League minutes and who they would have to leapfrog to claim these opportunities.
  
• SFA call for summit with all 42 Scottish clubs to discuss worrying lack of home-based players in matchday squads7 August 2026, 8:55 pm
  All 42 SPFL clubs have been summoned to attend a crisis meeting by the SFA around the future of Scottish football.
  
• Former Tottenham star Andros Townsend joins 17th club of his career - after his bizarre diet made him a viral sensation during the World Cup7 August 2026, 8:00 pm
  Townsend, 34, has previously played for Spurs, Newcastle, Palace and Everton, and moved to Thailand after a short spell with Turkish side Antalyaspor.
  
• Newcastle identify former Tottenham midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg as the man to replace Bruno Guimaraes and Sandro Tonali7 August 2026, 7:37 pm
  SIMON JONES AND CRAIG HOPE: The experienced Danish international has been identified as someone who could help smooth the transition from losing Guimaraes and Tonali.
  
• Rodri tells Real Madrid he wishes to join Barcelona as Man City legend prepares to leave Premier League - as Atletico Madrid push on with deal for Cristian Romero: WINDOW WATCH7 August 2026, 6:42 pm
  The transfer window is now open until September 1 and it's sure to be a busy period with clubs looking to make big signings ahead of next season. Here are today's latest developments.
  
• The Preview: Premiership new boys St Johnstone can be this year's great entertainers under Simo Valakari7 August 2026, 6:38 pm
  Ahead of St Johnstone's opening-day meeting with Kilmarnock last weekend, manager Simo Valakari warned of his side's need to be 'solid' and 'streetwise' to have a chance of staying up.
  
• Lucy Bronze becomes the first England footballer to back FIFA boycott as pressure mounts on Gianni Infantino: 'It is for the good of the game'7 August 2026, 6:19 pm
  UEFA previously said that Infantino's proposal would have to be withdrawn and that it would need assurances that such 'attempts to disfigure the game this way will never be made again'.
  
• Former Man United star Nicky Butt reveals he is BANNED from his local tip after blazing row with staff7 August 2026, 5:53 pm
  Butt, 51, says he got into a blazing confrontation with a worker at the tip who prevented him from entering the site.
  
• With £60m spent in a year, little sign of 'pro-Scottish bias' and a team still full of last term's losers, what is Andrew Cavenagh's strategy for Rangers?7 August 2026, 5:21 pm
  As recently as mid-May, chairman Andrew Cavenagh mapped out the latest direction of travel - or, perhaps, the latest left turn - for Rangers in the wake of another campaign of collapse and chaos.
  
• Newcastle did NOT want to sell £75m Bruno Guimaraes - but 'very emotional' captain asked to leave for Arsenal, reveals transfer chief7 August 2026, 4:49 pm
  The 28-year-old midfielder is set to leave the Magpies and join Arsenal for a fee of £75m, although confirmation of the move has not been officially announced yet.
  
• Revealed: Defiant David Sullivan believes he is being 'bullied' into staying away from West Ham stadium as owner, 77 - who is accused of sexual misconduct - prepares to face crowd after explosive Panorama allegations7 August 2026, 4:44 pm
  JAMES SHARPE: Sullivan plans to defy advice to stay away from West Ham 's first home game of the season because the club's co-owner, accused of multiple counts of sexual misconduct,
  
• Martin O'Neill COULD be in the dugout for Kilmarnock clash as assistant Shaun Maloney reveals Celtic boss is out of hospital after a minor procedure7 August 2026, 4:41 pm
  Shaun Maloney believes Martin O'Neill has an outside chance of being in the dugout at Kilmarnock after being released from hospital on Thursday.
  
• With four straight home games to come, it is make-or-break time for Hearts boss Wouter Vrancken7 August 2026, 4:04 pm
  Hearts turned Tynecastle into a fortress last season in coming so close to securing what would have been an incredible, historical title triumph.
  
• Some of the elites criticising Gianni Infantino are sheer hypocrites. How can the money-obsessed leeches behind the Super League expect us to listen to their confected moral outrage as they bleed our beloved game dry, writes IAN HERBERT7 August 2026, 4:01 pm
  The most preposterous man in football is staggering on, so perhaps that's why the biggest hypocrites of another dark week for football appear to have got away with it.
  
• Chelsea's new £47m speed king Marco Palestra opens up on why he snubbed Inter Milan, how he went from the 'slowest' player to Italy's fastest - and his dream of following Gianfranco Zola's Stamford Bridge legacy7 August 2026, 4:00 pm
  The Italian connection at Chelsea is alive after their £47million acquisition of Marco Palestra, and as sit down in the bar area of his Sydney hotel, Gianfranco Zola's name naturally crops up.