Thursday August 1
ENGLAND: Arsenal sign Nicolas
Pepe from Lille for a club record
fee of £72m. Liverpool complete
the sale of their Melwood training
ground ahead of a move to a new
£50m site in Kirkby in 2020.
EUROPA LEAGUE: Play is held up
for more than 30 minutes before
Universitatea Craiova beat Budapest
Honved on penalties after referee
Arnold Hunter is struck by an object
thrown from the crowd in Romania.Friday August 2
ENGLAND: Sheffield United break
their transfer record for a fourth
time this summer, signing Swansea
City striker Oli McBurnie for £17m.
FRANCE: Vahid Halilhodzic resigns
as coach of Nantes less than two
weeks before the start of the new
Ligue 1 season.
RUSSIA: Zenit pay Barcelona an
initial €40m to make Brazilianwinger Malcom the joint-most
expensive signing of all time in
Russian football.
UEFA: French referee Stephanie
Frappart will be the first female to
officiate a competitive men’s match
organised by UEFA when she takes
charge of the Super Cup between
Liverpool and Chelsea in Istanbul
on August 14.Saturday August 3
ARGENTINA: Lionel Messi is
banned from international football
for three months after claiming that
this year’s Copa America was “fixed
for Brazil”, who beat Argentina in
the semi-finals.
FRANCE: Paris Saint-Germain beat
Rennes 2-1 in China to win the
Trophee des Champions for a
record seventh consecutive season.
GERMANY: Paco Alcacer and
Jadon Sancho are on target
as Borussia Dortmund beat
Bayern Munich 2-0 to win theGerman Super Cup.
SCOTLAND: Defending champions
Celtic begin the new campaign with
a 7-0 thrashing of St Johnstone.
SOUTH AFRICA: National under-17
boss Molefi Ntseki is appointed
interim coach of the senior side
the day after Stuart Baxter resigns.
TURKMENISTAN: Altyn Asyr make
it five Super Cups in a row with a
2-0 victory over Kopetdag.
USA: An MLS record crowd of
72,548 watch Atlanta United beat
LA Galaxy 3-0 at the Mercedes-
Benz Stadium.Sunday August 4
ENGLAND: Manchester City beat
Liverpool on penalties to claim the
Community Shield after a 1-1 draw
in 90 minutes.
MEXICO: Andre-Pierre Gignac
becomes the club’s record scorer
with his 105th goal as Tigres beat
Pumas 1-0.
PORTUGAL: Benfica beat Sporting5-0 to win the Portuguese Super
Cup for a third time in four years.
SOUTH AFRICA: With clubs
refusing to release players due to a
clash with the start of the country’s
Premier Soccer League, South
Africa suffer a shock 3-0 loss to
visiting Lesotho and bow out of
qualifying for the 2020 African
Nations Championship.
USA: Ron Jans is named Cincinnati’s
third head coach of the season.Monday August 5
ENGLAND: Manchester United sign
centre-back Harry Maguire from
Leicester City for £80m – a
world-record fee for a defender.Tuesday August 6
AFC CHAMP LEAGUE: Bafetimbi
Gomis celebrates his 34th birthday
with a hat-trick as Al Hilal twice
come from behind to beat fellow
Saudi side Al Ahli 4-2 in the round-
of-16 first-leg tie.
BRAZIL: Athletico Paranaense beat
Shonan Bellmare 4-0 to become
only the second Brazilian side to win
the intercontinental J.League Cup/
Copa Sudamericana Championship.
FRANCE: Lille pay a club record
€16.5m to sign for Trabzonspor’s
attacking midfielder Yusuf Yazici.
INDONESIA: Trailing 1-0 from
the away leg, PSM Makassar beat
Persija Jakarta 2-0 in the return
to win the Indonesian Cup Final.
USA: Wayne Rooney will leave DC
United in December and join Derby
County as a player-coach.Wednesday August 7
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Victorious...Benfica lift
the Portuguese Super CupBanned...Lionel MessiAUGUST 1-29, 2019