Everton

Everton captain Seamus Coleman has signed a one-year contract extension.

The defender, 35, who joined the club in 2009 is the club's leading Premier League appearance-maker.

He will play for the Toffees in their final season at Goodison Park.

Speaking to the club's website, external Coleman said: “I still feel I can do a job for this football club on and off the pitch. This being our last season at Goodison is a nice way to go into the campaign but I wouldn’t have signed the contract if I didn’t feel capable of contributing to the team."

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Alex Howell
BBC football news reporter

Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Newcastle United have all contacted Crystal Palace to register their interest in signing France winger Michael Olise.

The 22-year-old has a complicated release clause worth in the region of £60m.

Olise has been picked to represent France at the Olympics but has not made their squad for the Euros.

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We will return to the Euros build-up in a moment, but the football world keeps on turning away from Germany.

All the latest news coming up...

BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds will provide coverage of all 51 matches in Germany, starting with tonight's opener in Munich.

You can listen to coverage via this link, and here's a reminder of how you can follow the rest of the tournament:

• How to follow Euro 2024 on the BBC
• Euro 2024 Groups & Schedule

Germany

Speaking at Germany's media conference on Thursday, captain Ilkay Gundogan said: "It means a lot, not just to be captain, but to be part of this team and have this tournament in our own country.

"In 2006, I watched the World Cup games and loved them. Now I'm a part of it. I represent the German people with pride. I want to show this on the pitch."

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BBC Radio 5 Live

More from former Germany defender Arne Friedrich on the Football Daily podcast: "Football can unite people and it can also bring fun back to the people.

"Right now everything is so heavy, we are all talking about those heavy topics, which obviously is important to do. I think sometimes we miss a bit of ease and, to be honest, I think when we all kick off there's a spark coming back."

BBC World Service

German football broadcaster Taufig Khalil, who commentates on Bayern Munich matches for ARD, talking to BBC World Service: "Many people here in Munich will be looking forward to the tributes to Franz Beckenbauer at the game tonight. Everybody admired him very much. His wife Heidi will help bring the European Championship trophy out on to the pitch. We’ve won the Euros three times - 1972, 1980 and 1996 in England.

"The captain of the 1980 team, Bernard Dietz, and the skipper from the 1996 squad, Jurgen Klinsmann, will be alongside Heidi walking out with the trophy because Franz was the captain in '72. It’ll be very emotional for the supporters at the Allianz Arena."

Beckenbauer passed away in January aged 78. As well as leading West Germany to success in 1972, he captained the 1974 World Cup-winning team and was coach when they lifted the trophy again at Italia '90.

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• Germany and Scotland are facing each other for the third time at a major tournament. Germany won the two previous encounters, in the group stages of the 1986 World Cup (2-1) and Euro 1992 (2-0).

• Scotland have won only one of their last 13 matches against Germany (drawn four, lost eight) - in April 1999, with Don Hutchison scoring the only goal in a Bremen friendly.

• Germany are taking part in their 14th Euros, more than any other team. They have won the trophy three times, the joint-most alongside Spain.

Alan Shearer
Former England striker on BBC Breakfast

A good tournament would be for [Scotland] to get out of the group. It's a very difficult group and if they can get anything tonight, that’ll set them up for the tournament. You can imagine the reaction if they get a point tonight - that'd be a great performance for them.

The closest Scotland has ever come to qualifying from the group stage of a major men's tournament was at Euro 1996, when they missed out by one goal on goal difference.

They beat Switzerland 1-0 in their final group game at Villa Park while hosts England won 4-1 at Wembley against the Netherlands, whose late consolation goal sent them through instead of Craig Brown's side.

Can Scotland finally do it this summer?

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Alan Shearer
Former England striker on BBC Breakfast

[Scotland] have done it already against Spain in qualifying (caused an upset). They won the first five games, which set them up for this tournament, so they know they can do it. They’ve got massive [amounts of] people coming over from Scotland to support them so that'll help them along the way.

If you're going to play Germany, why not in the first game, because [games are] very, very difficult to predict. I go back to Euro 1996 when we were at Wembley, England playing Switzerland. We were expecting to win and we only got a draw, so I don't think it's a bad time to be playing Germany.

Germany

Germany head coach Julian Nagelsmann spoke to the media on Thursday before the Euro 2024 opener: “I think we’re ready. The boys seem in good form. We are a bit nervous but we have to have a certain nervousness.

“Scotland have four or five good players and lots of players who have physicality. It’s a team that doesn’t have world stars but that makes them very dangerous.

“It’s an incredible development. It’s not kick and rush. They can do that, but they can play football. They lost 4-0 to Holland, but they were better than the Dutch.

“We have more pressure than Scotland, so I’m sure they want to capitalise on that."

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BBC World Service

German football broadcaster Taufig Khalil, who commentates on Bayern Munich matches for ARD, talking to BBC World Service: “The excitement is growing, we just had elections and we had very bad weather problems in this part of Germany with a lot of flooding. It’s not like the summer fairytale in 2006, when the weather seemed to be 30 degrees in the weeks before hosting the World Cup, so a lot depends on the first match.

"On the one side, people say our national team hasn’t been good in the last six years, but on the other side, we have an exciting young coach with great ideas. Toni Kroos is back and doing fantastic, and Jamal Musiala and Florian Wirtz are two of the hottest players in world football right now.

"Of course, it’s a home Euros, so it should work, we should get that spirit and grow together. Having said that, more people fear the first match against Scotland than the games against Switzerland and Hungary because everyone says if we start bad, it’ll be tough to recover because of the bad starts we had at the last two World Cups.”

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Gary Rose
BBC Sport in Hamburg

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I've been wandering around Hamburg the last few days looking for Netherlands and Poland fans ahead of their game on Sunday and I've had no luck so far, but did bump into a small group of Scotland fans having a kickabout outside St Pauli's stadium.

Curious about them being here and not 500 miles south in Munich for Scotland's opener against Germany tonight, I approached them for a chat.

They are Steve, Jamie, Robbie, Ross and Taylor, who is the youngest member of the group.

"We are all from Perth," says Steve. "We thought we'd take the chance and book early before the groups were decided. We went with Hamburg, which just happens to be an eight hour train journey to Munich..."

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Opposite St Pauli's ground is the fan zone, which is where Steve and the rest of the group will watch tonight's game. The fan zone has the capacity for 40,000, meaning these five Scotland fans will be a tad outnumbered...

"Hopefully there will be a few more Scotland fans by tonight but if not, we will make enough noise," Steve adds.

"This is Taylor's first opportunity to get across to a big event like these Euros, so it is all about the experience really."

BBC Radio 5 Live

Former Germany defender Arne Friedrich on the Football Daily podcast: "We are in different times now [from the 2006 World Cup in Germany]. It's not just about football, it's about geo-politics and all the problems we are having, not just in the world but also in Germany. I think it's so very important to have a great Euros this year.

"If I could wish for something, obviously Germany would win it, but even more important to me is that we again, unite the people here. This is so important. Football has so much power and I'm really eager to see the first game."

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Emma Sanders
BBC Sport in Stuttgart

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As expected, Germany fans were everywhere in Stuttgart last night.

I saw plenty of Toni Kroos shirts - clearly a fan favourite - as well as Thomas Muller, Jamal Musiala and Manuel Neuer.

There was even a Lukas Podolski shirt, matched with a German wig, from one of these brothers-in-law (pictured above).

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Husband and wife, Torsten and Susanne (above), have been married for six years and are football fans but have never experienced a tournament together.

Torsten went to a few matches in 2006 when Germany hosted the World Cup but was unable to get tickets this time around so he will be watching them with his wife in the fan zone.

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This group of friends (above) were dancing away to the first act and were all sporting various Germany shirts.

Elsewhere, there were people waving giant pretzels, sporting masks of famous local DJs due to perform, draping flags across their shoulders and wearing ribbons displaying the German colours.

It wasn't all about Germany though. Among the other shirts and fans I spoke to were two Croatians, a group of university friends from Brazil, Italy and Spain, three Argentinians, a Portugal fan sporting Cristiano Ronaldo's name on his back, an old Jordi Alba Barcelona shirt and... a Manchester City fan.

You can listen to tonight's game live on BBC Radio Scotland, and here's a reminder of how you can follow the rest of the tournament:

• How to follow Euro 2024 on the BBC
• Euro 2024 Groups & Schedule

Now then Scotland fans, any of you following us from out there in Germany? If so, please tell us about your journey. How does it compare to that by the Shetland lads?

And for everyone else, we want to hear how you plan to follow tonight's game and where you'll be.

Do let us know via the usual channels above.

Richard McElvanney
BBC Sport in Munich

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How many people can top this for a journey to Germany?

Dean, Daryl and Jack left Shetland at 4:30pm on Wednesday.

Then they got the boat overnight from Lerwick to Aberdeen.

Then they got the train to Edinburgh.

Then the tram to the airport.

Then a flight from Edinburgh to Stuttgart.

Then a bus from Stuttgart to Munich.

They arrived at 10:30pm on Thursday. "Loving it so far", they told me.