3 August 2026

Manchester United are dangling academy product Marcus Rashford as a makeweight to land Roma's Manu Koné. When a club starts using a homegrown name to grease a transfer, the patience at Old Trafford is gone.

Arsenal missed out on Morgan Rogers, who Chelsea landed for £117m, and are now chasing an even bigger name for the same gap. Xabi Alonso keeps signing the players Arsenal wanted and leaving them to overspend on the fallback.

Oliver Bearman, twenty-one, says he will not wait three to five years for a Ferrari seat. With Hamilton signed through 2027 and Leclerc through 2029, that door does not even open until 2028. He is better off finding a team that wants to build around him now.

Camp in Pittsburgh is buzzing about Aaron Rodgers dropping deep balls on DK Metcalf. He is forty-two and this is his last season, and he looks great in shorts with nobody rushing him. Ask again in September when the pads come on and somebody is trying to put him in the dirt.

Ninety years ago today, Jesse Owens won the 100 meters at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, in front of a crowd that came hoping he would fail. It was the first of four golds in a single week, and no one has topped it since. Still gives me chills.