Chelsea have given Manchester City until 5pm today to pay the full £120m for Enzo Fernandez, with no bids on the table yet and City's move still hostage to a stalled Rodri-to-Barcelona deal.

Monaco want to mutually terminate Paul Pogba's contract by 1 September after a new thigh injury, but the club's own general manager signalled the experiment was over as far back as January.

Three days after apologising to Aso Rock before its own supporters, the NFF watched the Super Falcons lose the WAFCON play-off too — turning a "setback" into a first-ever World Cup absence.

South Africa beat the Super Falcons 2-1 in Casablanca to end Nigeria's run of qualifying for every Women's World Cup since 1991, sending the country to a first-ever absence as Cameroon and Malawi reach a first WAFCON final.