Soccer

12:43 PM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Barcelona will listen to offers worth €100 million for midfielder Frenkie de Jong after holding formal talks with Manchester United over a transfer, sources close to the negotiations have told ESPN. Barca are prepared to let De Jong leave this summer to help balance the books amid an

3:27 AM ET Adriana Garcia Liverpool are in advanced talks with Benfica over the signing of Darwin Nunez, sources told ESPN. Nunez, 22, is set to break Liverpool’s transfer record, with the deal expected to be worth around €80 million plus €20m in add-ons. The agreement between the clubs has yet to be completed but

1:54 PM ET Lewandowski has mastered both shot quality and shot quantity, which is why he’s so sought-after in the transfer market. Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images Because I know you visited ESPN.com this morning to do some math, here is a list of numbers for you: 0.29, 0.29, 0.16, 0.16, 0.15, 0.13, 0.13, 0.12, 0.1, 0.09, 0.07,

11:58 AM ET Kyle Bonagura Close ESPN Staff Writer Covers the Pac-12. Joined ESPN in 2014. Attended Washington State University. Austin Lindberg With greats like Claudio Reyna, Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey and now Christian Pulisic, who’s the best to ever play for the U.S. men’s national team? Illustration by ESPN With the United States men’s national

3:26 AM ET Losing a top player on a free transfer was once identified as pure mismanagement: a boardroom-level failure of planning, negotiation and foresight triggering ire among fans. Arsenal are one club to face heavy criticism in this way, so much so that in October 2018, the club’s then-newly installed director of football, Raul

1:00 PM ET In the end, it was the goalkeeper who got him. During a postmatch TV interview, Milan Borjan snuck up and doused Canada manager John Herdman with champagne. That he’d stayed dry for so long was a minor miracle considering the occasion. With a 4-0 victory over Jamaica on March 27 in the

12:56 PM ET The summer transfer window is about to open, so let’s look at the 10 most expensive transfers by position — goalkeepers, defenders, midfielders and forwards — through 2021. I awarded a (highly subjective) grade out of five based on what we know now. In other words, with the benefit of hindsight and

4:00 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Every summer, Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak uses the club’s in-house television channel to address the fans. It’s usually a review of the previous season, but this year’s address also included a warning for the Premier League and the rest of Europe. Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland, one of

4:39 PM ET Rodrigo Faez Julien Laurens Aurelien Tchouameni is set to join Real Madrid from AS Monaco on a five-year contract, sources have told ESPN. The Champions League winners and the Ligue 1 side have reached an agreement for a deal worth up to €80 million ($86m) with the player set to undergo a

10:35 AM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. Zimmerman has grown in stature through this World Cup cycle, with his form right where it needs to be

3:03 AM ET Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappe is the most valuable football player in the world, according Swiss research group CIES Football Observatory, followed by Real Madrid‘s Vinicius Jr. and new Manchester City recruit Erling Haaland. Mbappe, who turned down Real and signed a new three-year deal at PSG last month, topped the list

9:15 AM ET Neymar got himself onto the scoresheet for Brazil. Kenta Harada/Getty Images Two decades have gone by since Brazil lifted the last of their World Cups in Japan and, back in Tokyo on Monday, the 2022 model underlined their credentials as a candidate to win Asia’s second World Cup this year. The 1-0 win

9:30 AM ET Football’s new generation of superstars might have to think again about stealing the show at Qatar 2022. Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale have made it pretty clear they are ready to prove that age is no barrier to success at the World Cup. Messi, 34, scored all five goals in

7:01 PM ET Associated Press Jesus Ferreira failed to convert a pair of first-half chances as USMNT forwards kept up their goal-scoring struggles in a 0-0 draw against Uruguay on Sunday in their second of four World Cup warmup matches this month. The U.S. took the field three hours after learning Wales would be its

9:21 PM ET CARDIFF, Wales — The Ukrainian dream of a World Cup appearance ended on a cold Sunday night in an unrelenting rainstorm. Head coach Oleksandr Petrakov stared out through the downpour and didn’t know what to do. A red flare landed on the pitch, and the air smelled like gunpowder. Smoke swirled up

11:21 AM ET Catarina Macario was injured in Lyon’s last game of the season. Photo by Marco Canoniero/LightRocket via Getty Images United States women’s national team’s Catarina Macario has confirmed she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in Lyon’s final game of the season and will be out “for a few months.” Lyon beat Issy

5:30 AM ET It is now all or nothing for Gareth Bale — win or bust, it’s his “Last Dance.” The Wales captain will either realise a lifetime ambition and end a 64-year wait for his country by qualifying for the World Cup on Sunday, or it will be the end of the line for

3:00 PM ET KANSAS CITY, Kan. — United States men’s national team midfielder Weston McKennie will start Sunday’s friendly against Uruguay, the first time he’s been in the starting 11 for club or country since breaking his foot in February, U.S. manager Gregg Berhalter announced on Saturday. Berhalter announced the rest of his lineup as