General Football

The BBC’s search to find a new football expert is almost over. Meet the final two content creators vying to become the Last Pundit Standing.

Scottish Gossip: Scotland, McGinn, Celtic, Rangers, Hearts, Dundee, Hamilton

BBC Scotland looks at a booming day for Scottish football from European adventures to Ballon d’Or nominees.

BBC Scotland looks at a booming day for Scottish football from European adventures to Ballon d’Or nominees.

Aaron Paul, Jobi McAnuff, Tommy Smith and Alex Bruce preview the Championship season.

David Moyes has much work to do to bolster his depleted squad for the club’s first season in their magnificent new riverside stadium

Guardian writers’ predicted position: 13th (NB: this is not necessarily Andy Hunter’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips)

Last season’s position: 13th

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The Portugal great is at it again

Bayern Munich show interest in Chelsea striker Nicolas Jackson, AC Milan are keen on Manchester United forward Rasmus Hojlund, Tottenham have a bid for Como’s Nico Paz rejected, plus more.

• Zabarnyi poised to leave for Paris in £61m deal

• West Ham expected to sign Leicester’s Hermansen

Bournemouth are pushing to sign the Lille centre-back Bafodé Diakité as a replacement for Illia Zabarnyi, who is poised to join Paris Saint-Germain. Zabarnyi is expected to join PSG in a deal worth almost €70m (£61m), with talks over add-ons ongoing.

Zabarnyi’s anticipated departure would mean Bournemouth will have generated more than £150m this summer, with fellow defenders Milos Kerkez and Dean Huijsen joining Liverpool and Real Madrid respectively.

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Manchester United look set to complete a third major forward signing in a bid to solve their goalscoring problems – now attention is turning to the midfield.