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The relationship between a superstar and his hometown club has always felt transactional. Did either side get what they wanted? This time, Kylian Mbappé means it. The reports on Thursday [...]

A quiet January window may not be a bubble bursting, but rather an awareness that the player-acquisition business has changed. It is not quite right to say that this has [...]

Messi is expected to join the team this week on a contract that runs through the 2025 Major League Soccer season. The greatest soccer player of his era, and maybe [...]

Nasser al-Khelaifi, the president of Paris St.-Germain, was introducing the team's new coach when he turned to tough talk on the future of his team's biggest star. It was at [...]

In dueling statements, the French striker and Paris St.-Germain disputed basic facts about the breakdown of their relationship. The summer's biggest soccer soap opera may have just begun. One day [...]

Mbappé, the star forward, has told his French team he will not renew his contract next year. His decision could force a long-awaited move to Real Madrid. First it lost [...]

The soccer superstar will be paid handsomely to play in the Middle East in the twilight of his career. When Pelé came to join the New York Cosmos in the [...]

European soccer offered support to Ukrainian teams when Russia invaded the country. Now, as rivals bargain shop in wartime, one top club says the sense of solidarity is gone. Like [...]

Bale, who helped Wales qualify for the World Cup, will prepare for the tournament in the United States. Ever since Gareth Bale helped ensure that Wales would play in the [...]

The soccer great Lionel Messi, speaking at a news conference, said leaving Barcelona had been a ''very hard moment'' but he was excited to join his new club. PARIS -- [...]

Leaving F.C. Barcelona, Messi is set to join P.S.G. on a two-year contract that highlights the growing gap between soccer's rich and its superrich. Paris St.-Germain, the French soccer powerhouse [...]

The surplus players at English clubs would make fine assets for teams across Europe. The problem is that the clubs that could use them cannot afford them. The headed clearance [...]

After a summer of indignity and humiliation, the striker has been reborn with Atlético Madrid. Luis Suárez had already been made a scapegoat, blamed for all that had gone wrong [...]

On the surface, Paris St.-Germain's victory against Strasbourg in February 2018 was unremarkable. It was unusual that Strasbourg took an early lead, but it only lasted four minutes. Julian Draxler [...]

LOS ANGELES -- When the members of the United States women's national team negotiated their current collective bargaining agreement with U.S. Soccer in 2017, they secured what seemed to be [...]

MANCHESTER, England -- At last, it seems, among all of the hundreds of millions of pounds that float around the Premier League, the penny has dropped.The January transfer window has [...]

Forward Kylian Mbappe's expected move to Paris St.-Germain finally went through Thursday evening, as Monaco loaned him until the end of the season along with an option to make the [...]

Neymar, the dynamic Brazilian forward, was officially unveiled as a player for Paris Saint-Germain on Friday after his $263 million transfer, which more than doubled the world record. Neymar said [...]

Neymar has become the most expensive player in soccer history after completing his blockbuster transfer to Paris St.-Germain from Barcelona on Thursday for 222 million euros ($262 million). P.S.G. triggered [...]

David Villa, the Spanish striker who has served as the face of New York City F.C. since the club's inception three years ago, has extended his contract with the club [...]

Carli Lloyd was on a quiet English soccer vacation in late December, taking in the sights -- a game at Arsenal, two at Liverpool -- when Nick Cushing, the coach [...]

Nascar is drastically changing its format for the coming season, cutting every race into three stages in an attempt to make every lap matter. The top 10 drivers at the [...]

Chelsea produced the biggest surprise of the summer transfer window with a deadline-day deal to re-sign David Luiz from Paris St.-Germain, returning him to the club he left two years [...]

Borussia Dortmund is bringing back forward Mario G÷tze from Bayern Munich. G÷tze left Dortmund for Bayern in 2013 but never settled down and was mostly a bench player under the [...]

Leicester became the first Premier League contender to make a move in the transfer market, signing the winger Demarai Gray, 19, from second-tier [...]

London -- For the second time in three years, Bayern Munich is showing the rest of the world just how to manage change at a big club. The announcement on [...]

BANGKOK -- If the Chinese Super League was not the hottest soccer destination outside Europe before this summer transfer window opened, it is now. The infusion of big name players [...]

Moving on from his Premier League flop, winger Ângel Di Mara signed a four-year deal with Paris St.-Germain to complete his transfer from Manchester United. Financial terms of the deal [...]

While Arsne Wenger never seems to go anywhere -- he will begin his 20th season at Arsenal on Sunday -- a host of prominent players joined, left or switched Premier [...]

New York City F.C. has all but finalized negotiations with Andrea Pirlo, a 36-year-old Italian midfielder who is set to join the club at the end of the week as [...]

New York City F.C. completed the signing of midfielder Mix Diskerud on Tuesday, bolstering a midfield -- and a club -- trying to regain its footing since the recent announcement [...]

In late December, when Manchester City caught Chelsea at the top of the English Premier League standings, City's fans showered their team's new hero in song. ''He's top of the [...]

LONDON -- In professional sports there are saints, sinners and opportunists who take their chances for a better life. Southampton F.C, known as the Saints, is the only team on [...]

LONDON -- After 13 years, Nike and Manchester United are calling it quits. Nike has announced that it will end its role as the English soccer powerhouse's primary equipment manufacturer [...]

The veteran English left back Ashley Cole joined Roma. Cole, 33, was a free agent after his Chelsea contract [...]

Orlando City Soccer Club, which will begin play in Major League Soccer next year, says it is in advanced discussions to sign Kaka, the A.C. Milan midfielder. Kaka, 32, who [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn most cases, coaches of national soccer teams are like presidents: one four-year term at a time, with little certainty about how re-election will go until the numbers come [...]

CARSON, Calif. -- When Omar Gonzalez left the University of Maryland and was taken by the Los Angeles Galaxy as the third pick in the 2009 Major League Soccer draft, [...]

LONDON -- There were players who began this week unsure which club, which league or even which country they would be employed in come Friday. But after the transfer carousel [...]

LONDON -- The heat of an English summer is more than meteorological. Right now, with three weeks to go before the transfer period closes at the end of August, three [...]

The Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala signed the coveted Brazilian playmaker Willian from Shakhtar Donetsk in a deal worth about $48 million. He becomes the latest marquee signing for Anzhi, a [...]

LONDON -- Just when it seemed Europe's winter sales of soccer flesh could get no more bizarre, new buyers appeared in the window. David Beckham became the celebrity signing in [...]

The next stop on David Beckham's glamorous and jet-setting soccer career seems like a logical one: Paris. On Thursday, hours after his private plane landed in the French capital, Beckham [...]

LONDON -- The chase is over. Pep Guardiola, the most courted soccer coach on earth, is not going to Chelsea, nor to Manchester City, nor even to the national team [...]

Sporting Kansas City signed Claudio Bieler, an Argentine forward, as a designated player. Bieler, 28, was acquired by the club from LDU Quito after scoring 57 goals in 110 games [...]

Lionel Messi, 25, agreed to a new contract with Barcelona, extending his deal two years to 2018. Xavi Hernßndez and Carles Puyol also agreed to new deals with the team. [...]

Bright and early Thursday morning (at 8:02 a.m. by the e-mail clock) the Red Bulls announced that they had rid themselves of one of their three designated players -- Rafael [...]

United States forward Clint Dempsey secured his move away from Fulham in the final hours of the transfer window on Friday, signing a three-year contract with Tottenham Hotspur that will [...]