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Inside Olivia Smith’s £1m Arsenal transfer: A fee meant to be secret and a ‘lone wolf’s’ bidding war

Inside Olivia Smith’s £1m Arsenal transfer: A fee meant to be secret and a ‘lone wolf’s’ bidding war

Olivia Smith was always going to become women’s football’s first £1million player this summer — but nobody was meant to know. Confidentiality was the modus operandi before Smith’s record-breaking £1million ($1.34m) transfer from Liverpool to Arsenal became official on Thursday. The circle of trust was small: Liverpool’s new managing director of women’s football, Andy O’Boyle, drove negotiations from Merseyside, with …

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Charlotte FC transfer USMNT striker Patrick Agyemang to Derby County

Charlotte FC transfer USMNT striker Patrick Agyemang to Derby County

TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Transfer Charlotte FC have transferred striker Patrick Agyemang to English Championship side Derby County for a club-record fee and retain a sell-on percentage, the club announced Tuesday. The 24-year-old US international has enjoyed a meteoric rise, going from the No. 12 selection (first round) in the 2023 MLS SuperDraft to a European transfer in two-and-a-half years. He …

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Home cooking: In plug-and-play transfer era, SEC leans on in-house QBs to key league’s return to dominance

Home cooking: In plug-and-play transfer era, SEC leans on in-house QBs to key league’s return to dominance

Every region has its own version of what we like to call “home cooking.” That affection is especially powerful in the Southeastern United States, which makes for a fun parallel to the quarterback picture in the SEC entering the 2025 season. If the transfer portal has become college football’s fast, fresh-from-frozen approach to roster building, the top programs in the …

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SpaceX launches mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit

SpaceX launches mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit

SpaceX launched a mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) from Florida’s Space Coast early Sunday morning (July 13). A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday at 1:04 a.m. EDT (0504 GMT), on a mission SpaceX called Commercial GTO-1. The company didn’t identify the payload, though it’s believed to be an Israeli communications satellite …

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AFC Bournemouth, Chelsea agree Đorđe Petrović transfer

AFC Bournemouth, Chelsea agree Đorđe Petrović transfer

Bournemouth recently made a transfer offer to sign Đorđe Petrović, and it would appear that their offer was a good one as they have now reportedly reached an agreement with Chelsea as well. As first reported by David Ornstein, and shortly thereafter corroborated by the BBC, Fabrizio Romano and Ben Jacobs, the Blues and the Cherries have agreed on a …

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Report: QB Jake Retzlaff withdrawing from BYU, not expected to enter NCAA Transfer Portal

Report: QB Jake Retzlaff withdrawing from BYU, not expected to enter NCAA Transfer Portal

BYU quarterback Jake Retzlaff plans to withdraw from school and pursue a transfer path without involving the NCAA Transfer Portal, according to ESPN insider Pete Thamel. Retzlaff, who is reportedly facing a multi-game suspension for violating BYU’s strict student honor code, plans to simply enroll at a new school as a walk-on graduate transfer, rather than going through a formal …

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