🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…

Wirtz has 18 goal contributions since start of last season. Foden has 19 & Palmer 18. Yet Wirtz we are told is biggest flop of all time & needs to go back to Germany. While Foden is supposedly greatest English talent of a generation & Palmer is like Steven Gerrard. How does that make sense 🧐

🚨🇸🇦 Tijjani Reijnders on moving to Saudi Arabia: “It’s money for generations of my family”. “Once my playing career is over, I don’t want to have to work anymore. Of course, I probably wouldn’t have needed to work anymore after my contract at Manchester City either, but this move allows me to secure the future of the next generations of my family”. “I’m not going to lie about that. By signing this contract, I can make sure even my grandchildren are financially secure, so why wouldn’t I do it?”.

Come in No 9, where are you? The Harry Kane succession is not of pressing concern for England quite yet, given his focus and fitness at 33, and still has one more tournament in him. But FA coaches at St George’s Park are busy scouring their Talent ID to find centre-forwards or find ways to develop them. “We need No 9s,” says Lee Carsley, head coach of England Under-21s. Dominic Calvert-Lewin is with Kane in the seniors but he’s hardly the long-term future at 29. Danny Welbeck, 35, and 30-year-olds Ollie Watkins and Ivan Toney are not in the senior squad. Will Lankshear is with Carsley’s Under-21s for the first time after his prolific start at Middlesbrough. He’s scored 8 goals in 11 appearances since his £10m move from Tottenham Hotspur. “His goalscoring record at present is very impressive,” says Carsley of Lankshear. “He's playing with a lot of confidence. Moving to a club for a bit of money puts a different kind of pressure on him.” Lankshear has clearly responded positively to the pressure. FA coaches are also tracking the form of 23-year-old Liam Delap at Nottingham Forest. “He’s done really well the other day,” Carsley says of Delap’s goal for Nottingham Forest against Aston Villa. “He did really well with us.” Delap helped the Under-21s qualify for the 2025 Euros. “It would have been brilliant to see Liam at the Euros in the summer (of 2025) but he went to the Club World Cup, didn't he? So he missed out.” Delap had moved to Chelsea and elected to join his new club-mates in the US rather than continue with Carsley’s team into the 2025 Euros they went on to win. Delap struggled at Chelsea, managing only three goals in 47 appearances. Forest suits him better; less pressure and more starts. “It’s great to see him doing well now,” Carsley says. “There's definitely a challenge for all of the coaches, from academy coaches right the way through to pathway coaches (and at clubs) that we need No 9s, we need different kinds of number 9s as well,” says Carsley. “Hopefully from the talent ID we’ve got and the recruitment (development) we can keep finding them.” #ENG

🚨 BREAKING: Morgan Gibbs-White should be banned from the England team for the foreseeable future after he filmed this on the way to the camp with his Mrs. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🤯 The game has never been more gone.

The player with the most touches in the opposition box this season? Josh King, with 37. He plays all 3 promoted teams in his next 3 games. Be there or miss out.

Enzo literally just wiped his snot on Guéhi