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We read 40+ football outlets — BBC Sport, Sky Sports, The Guardian, The Athletic, the national papers and the most reliable journalists on X — the moment they publish. Each story is summarised in plain English, matched to the clubs, players and competitions it is about, and cross-checked against every other outlet reporting it. The confidence shown on transfer and injury stories reflects how many trusted sources agree. Every summary links to the original report.

On this page that confidence is the reporting label on every story. It weighs each outlet by its track record, and recent reports count for more.

Confirmed: Announced, and reported by a leading outlet.
Strong: Two or more outlets with heavy backing, such as two of the most reliable.
Reported: More than one outlet, with some backing.
Single source: One outlet so far, or very little backing.

Football news

Injury news

City in doubt over Haaland and suffer major injury blow

Sunderland manager reassures fans over Brobbey absence

Napoli, Allegri loses Alisson: returns after the break

Liverpool star picks up new injury in major squad blow for Andoni Iraola

Liverpool get huge Dominik Szoboszlai boost in fresh double injury update

Juve, dislocated shoulder for Conceicao: out until the break

Zoma injury: Nuremberg forward to undergo shoulder surgery, misses Italy Nations League

Cucho Hernández: one month out

Ache returns to partial training; Schmied sidelined

Tottenham get exciting injury update as new training footage revealed

Cucho, main absence in Betis training

Bologna, Piccoli injured: three matches at risk

Ricken on Karetsas injury: "We feared worse"

"Everything tried to keep vessels alive": Khudyakov suffers lower leg fracture

Chelsea injury update: Emi Martinez, Pep Chavarria, Malo Gusto latest news and return dates

Arsenal injury update: Piero Hincapié, Christos Tzolis and William Saliba latest news and return dates

Militao returns to play six months later

Eric: "It frustrates and saddens me not to be able to play"

De Cat set for long spell out at Hoffenheim

García, Koundé to miss PSG-Barça ahead of Clásico

Osmand injury latest as Celtic boss O'Neill names two stars who will miss Celta Vigo

Nuno Mendes ruled out for PSG-Barcelona: how can Paris contain Lamine Yamal?

Jeglertz: Mead picked up small knock, City being smart not to take risks

Ruiz on Walti: "Yes she is injured. We will discover this week but I don't think it's [bad]."

Tests for Eric, Koundé and Gerard Martín

Kulusevski back at Tottenham after over 500 days out: 'He had a big smile'

Grimsby defender Pruti suffers bad leg break

Edin Džeko suffers 'deep cut' to head in Schalke's defeat to Mainz

Manchester United: Double injury blow 'confirmed' before Leeds clash

Athletic awaits nervously on Guruzeta knee tests

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Transfers

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