Summary

  1. Boro sign Man City midfielder Nypanpublished at 11:11 British Summer Time

    Sverre NypanImage source, Rex Features

    One player who won't be lighting up the Premier League this season is Manchester City's Norwegian midfielder Sverre Nypan, who has moved to Championship side Middlesbrough on loan.

    The 18-year-old Norway Under-21 international joined City from Rosenborg for £12.5m in June.

  2. Phil McNulty Q&Apublished at 11:08 British Summer Time

    Craig Nelson
    BBC Sport reporter

    Remember, you can send in your questions for Phil McNulty by using the 'Get Involved' icon at the top of this page.

    BBC Sport's chief football writer will be on hand to answer your questions on any footballing topic - from the latest transfers to the most impressive Premier League debuts of the weekend.

    He may even be drawn on the right and wrongs of Monday night's controversial penalty decision...

  3. 'The fastest player in Serie A'published at 11:01 British Summer Time

    Jackson TchatchouaImage source, Getty Images

    Able to operate as a right-back or wing-back, the Cameroon international is known for his pace.

    Last season he was named the fastest player in Serie A with an average top speed of 34.88 kmph.

    Wolves said the 23-year-old produced a top speed of 36.3 kmph last season.

    For context, Tottenham's Micky van de Ven was the fastest player in the Premier League in 2024-25, reaching a top speed of 37.1 kmph and the Dutch defender holds the league record of 37.38 kmph.

  4. Who is Jackson Tchatchoua?published at 10:59 British Summer Time

    Jackson TchatchouaImage source, Getty Images

    Wolves' latest signing, Belgium-born defender Jackson Tchatchoua, started his career at Belgian club Charleroi, making his debut for the club in 2021.

    Ahead of the 2023/24 season, he moved on a season-long loan to Hellas Verona with the Italian club exercising an option to buy him the following summer.

    The 23-year-old has made 64 appearances for Hellas, scoring two goals and registering five assists.

    In June 2024, Tchatchoua made his international debut for Cameroon in a victory over Cape Verde and he has since gone on to earn 10 caps for his country.

  5. Premier League deals done so far this summerpublished at 10:56 British Summer Time

    Fee including add-ons in brackets

    Arsenal

    • Kepa Arrizabalaga - from Chelsea - £5m
    • Martin Zubimendi - from Real Sociedad - £60m
    • Christian Norgaard - from Brentford - £10m (£15m)
    • Noni Madueke - from Chelsea - £48.5m
    • Cristhian Mosquera - from Valencia - £13m
    • Viktor Gyokeres - from Sporting - £55m (£64m)

    Aston Villa

    • Yasin Ozcan - from Kasimpasa - £5.9m (£6.7m)
    • Zepiqueno Redmond - from Feyenoord - Free
    • Marco Bizot - from Brest - Undisclosed
    • Evann Guessand - from Nice - £26m (£30.3m)

    Bournemouth

    • Adrien Truffert - from Rennes - £11.4m (£14.4m)
    • Djordje Petrovic - from Chelsea - £25m
    • Bafode Diakite - from Lille - £30.3m (£34.6m)
    • Ben Gannon Doak - from Liverpool - £20m (£25m)

    Brentford

    • Michael Kayode - from Fiorentina - £14.8m
    • Caoimhin Kelleher - from Liverpool - £12.5m (£18m)
    • Romelle Donovan - from Birmingham City - £3m
    • Antoni Milambo - from Feyenoord - Undisclosed
    • Jordan Henderson - from Ajax - Free
    • Dango Ouattara - from Bournemouth - £42.5m

    Brighton

    • Charalampos Kostoulas - from Olympiakos - £29.8m (£31.5m)
    • Diego Coppola - from Hellas Verona - £8.5m
    • Olivier Boscagli - from PSV Eindhoven - Free
    • Maxim de Cuyper - from Club Brugge - Undisclosed

    Burnley

    • Bashir Humphreys - from Chelsea - £12m (£14.7m)
    • Marcus Edwards - from Sporting - £8.5m
    • Jaidon Anthony - from Bournemouth - £7.5m
    • Zian Flemming - from Millwall - £7m
    • Max Weiss - from Karlsruher - £4.3m
    • Quilindschy Hartman - from Feyenoord - Undisclosed
    • Axel Tuanzebe - from Ipswich - Free
    • Loum Tchaouna - from Lazio - Undisclosed
    • Kyle Walker - from Manchester City - £5m
    • Jacob Bruun Larsen - from Stuttgart - Undisclosed
    • Lesley Ugochukwu - from Chelsea - Undisclosed
    • Martin Dubravka - from Newcastle - Undisclosed
    • Armando Broja - from Chelsea - Reported £20m

    Chelsea

    • Liam Delap - from Ipswich - £30m
    • Estevao Willian - from Palmeiras - £29m (£48.5m)
    • Dario Essugo - from Sporting - £18.5
    • Mamadou Sarr - from Strasbourg - £12m
    • Kendry Paez - from Independiente del Valle - £8.3m (£16.6m)
    • Joao Pedro - from Brighton - £60m
    • Jamie Gittens - from Borussia Dortmund - £48.5m
    • Jorrel Hato - from Ajax - £37m

    Crystal Palace

    • Walter Benitez - from PSV Eindhoven - Free
    • Borna Sosa - from Ajax - Undisclosed

    Everton

    • Charly Alcaraz - from Flamengo - £12.6m (£15.2m)
    • Thierno Barry - from Villarreal - £27m
    • Mark Travers - from Bournemouth - Undisclosed
    • Adam Aznou - from Bayern Munich - Undisclosed
    • Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall - from Chelsea - £24m (£28m)
    • Jack Grealish - from Manchester City - Loan
    • Tom King - Wolves - Undisclosed

    Fulham

    • Benjamin Lecomte - from Montpellier - reported £500k

    Leeds

    • Jaka Bijol - from Udinese - £15m
    • Lukas Nmecha - from Wolfsburg - Free
    • Sebastiaan Bornauw - from Wolfsburg - £5.1m
    • Gabriel Gudmundsson - from Lille - £10m
    • Sean Longstaff - from Newcastle - £12m
    • Anton Stach - from Hoffenheim - £17m
    • Lucas Perri - from Lyon - reported £15.6m
    • Dominic Calvert-Lewin - Free agent

    Liverpool

    • Florian Wirtz - from Bayer Leverkusen - £100m (£116m)
    • Jeremie Frimpong - from Bayer Leverkusen - £29.5m
    • Armin Pecsi - from Puskas Akademia - £1.5m
    • Milos Kerkez - from Bournemouth - £40m
    • Hugo Ekitike -from Eintracht Frankfurt £69m (£79m)
    • Giovanni Leoni - from Parma - £26m

    Manchester City

    • Tijjani Reijnders - from AC Milan - £46.3m (£60m)
    • Rayan Ait-Nouri - from Wolves - £31m (£36.3m)
    • Rayan Cherki - from Lyon - £30.5m (£35.6m)
    • Marcus Bettinelli - from Chelsea - Nominal
    • Sverre Nypan - from Rosenborg - £12.5m
    • James Trafford - from Burnley - £27m/£31m*

    *City sources say deal worth £27m, Burnley say £31m

    Manchester United

    • Matheus Cunha - from Wolves - £62.5m
    • Diego Leon - from Cerro Porteno - Undisclosed
    • Bryan Mbeumo - from Brentford - £65m (£71m)
    • Banjamin Sesko - from RB Leipzig - £66.3m (£73.7m)

    Newcastle

    • Antonio Cordero - from Malaga - Free
    • Anthony Elanga - from Nottingham Forest - £55m
    • Park Seung-soo - from Suwon Bluewings - Undisclosed
    • Aaron Ramsdale - from Southampton - Loan
    • Malick Thiaw - from AC Milan - Reported £34.6m
    • Jacob Ramsey - from Aston Villa - £40m

    Nottingham Forest

    • Igor Jesus - from Botafogo - £10m
    • Jair Cunha - from Botafago - Undisclosed
    • Dan Ndoye - from Bologna - Undisclosed
    • Angus Gunn - from Norwich - Free
    • Omari Hutchinson - from Ipswich Town - £37.5m
    • James McAtee - from Manchester City - £30m
    • Arnaud Kalimuendo - from Rennes - Reported £26m

    Sunderland

    • Enzo le Fee - from Roma - £19.3m
    • Habib Diarra - from Strasbourg - £30m
    • Noah Sadiki - from Royale Union Saint-Gilloise - Reported £15m
    • Reinildo Mandava - from Atletico Madrid - Free
    • Chemsdine Talbi - from Club Brugge - Reported £18m (£20.5m)
    • Simon Adingra - from Brighton - £18m (£20.5m)
    • Granit Xhaka - from Bayer Leverkusen - £13m (£17m)
    • Robin Roefs - from NEC Nijmegen - Undisclosed
    • Marc Guiu - from Chelsea - Loan
    • Arthur Masuaku - from Besiktas - Free
    • Nordi Mukiele - from Paris Saint-Germain - (£12m)

    Tottenham

    • Kevin Danso - Lens - £20.9m
    • Mathys Tel - from Bayern Munich - £29.8m (£34.1m)
    • Kota Takai - from Kawasaki Frontale - £5m
    • Mohammed Kudus - from West Ham - £55m
    • Joao Palhinha - from Bayern Munich - Loan

    West Ham

    • Jean-Clair Todibo - from Nice - £36.3m
    • El Hadji Malick Diouf - from Slavia Prague - £19m
    • Kyle Walker-Peters - from Southampton - Free
    • Callum Wilson - from Newcastle - Free
    • Mads Hermansen - from Leicester - £20m

    Wolves

    • Fer Lopez - from Celta Vigo - £19.6m (£21.3m)
    • Jorgen Strand Larsen - from Celta Vigo - £23m
    • Jhon Arias - from Fluminense - £15m
    • David Moller Wolfe - from AZ Alkmaar - £10m
    • Jackson Tchatchoua - from Hellas Verona - £12.4m
  6. Postpublished at 10:48 British Summer Time

    Craig Nelson
    BBC Sport reporter

    Thanks Sam, we are switching tack now from match reaction to the latest transfer news, before we welcome BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty for his first Q&A of the new season.

    Let's start with a round-up of the Premier League's done deals, which includes Wolves' fifth summer signing, Jackson Tchatchoua, who was announced earlier this morning...

  7. Postpublished at 10:47 British Summer Time

    Sam Drury
    BBC Sport

    Right, I'm off to work on my deeply unpopular cricket/ NBA-style review system that will revolutionise and improve football - you'll see...

    I'll leave you in the hands of one of your fellow naysayers. Craig Nelson is here to take you into the murky waters of the transfer world...

  8. Premier League tablepublished at 10:45 British Summer Time

    Leeds 1-0 Everton

    They used to say you shouldn't look at the league table until teams have all played 10 games.

    Well, if you subscribe to that view, avert your eyes now. For the rest of you, here is how the table looks after the opening round of fixtures...

    Premier League table after first round of fixtures in the 2025-26 season
  9. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 10:42 British Summer Time

    Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say

    How does a manager on the touchline have any chance of regularly getting reviews correct when the refs are hopeless from within 10 yards? I can see the appeal but can't see how it would work in football given how different it is.

    Callum, London

    Would need ironing out and certain parameters set, Callum, but there are plenty of TV monitors and tablets knocking around on Premier League benches these days.

    They have a similar review system in the NBA and they have a member of staff keeping an eye on incidents that might warrant a challenge. So don't think that part would be an issue.

  10. Next up for Leeds and Sunderlandpublished at 10:39 British Summer Time

    Can Leeds and Sunderland build on the momentum from their opening weekend wins?

    The Black Cats might fancy their chances as they travel to fellow newly-promoted club Burnley, who will also see it as a good chance to get an early three points on the board, on Saturday.

    For Leeds, it's a trip to Arsenal on Saturday tea time. It doesn't get much tougher but if they can get something from that then confidence really will be sky high in Yorkshire.

  11. Strong start for promoted sidespublished at 10:34 British Summer Time

    Leeds 1-0 Everton

    Sunderland players celebrateImage source, Getty Images

    Leeds' victory, coupled Sunderland's win on Saturday, means that for just the third time in Premier League history, two newly promoted sides have won on the opening weekend.

    Brentford and Watford managed it in 2021-22 and before that you have to go back to 1997-98 and victories for Bolton and Crystal Palace.

    Leeds are also the first Championship champions to win their first game of the season for 18 years. Sunderland were the last to manage it when they beat Tottenham to kick-off the 2007-08 campaign.

    It is a stark contrast last year when it took until the fifth round of games for the promoted sides to have amass six points between them, while Leicester were the first of them to win a match - in the seventh game of the season.

    Should the three that came up continue to fare better than their equivalents in the past couple of seasons, there could be a few more established Premier League sides getting a bit edgy in the coming weeks and months...

  12. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 10:30 British Summer Time

    Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say

    Chris Kavanagh - Had a good game. Kept it going, tried to play advantage and resisted handing out cards unless no other option. On the penalty, how many times do pundits and fans criticise referees for not using the linesman? He took his time and made the decision. Over to VAR...

    Sean, Cumbria

  13. Everton's summer so farpublished at 10:27 British Summer Time

    Leeds 1-0 Everton

    Jack GrealishImage source, Getty Images

    Last night's defeat perhaps shows that the Toffees will need to go back in to the transfer market to improve their squad.

    Over the summer, manager David Moyes said his squad still needed "six more players" and that during his managerial career he had "never had a window like it".

    Everton's done deals:

    • Charly Alcaraz - from Flamengo - £12.6m (£15.2m)
    • Thierno Barry - from Villarreal - £27m
    • Mark Travers - from Bournemouth - Undisclosed
    • Adam Aznou - from Bayern Munich - Undisclosed
    • Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall - from Chelsea - £24m (£28m)
    • Jack Grealish - from Manchester City - Loan
    • Tom King - from Wolves - Undisclosed

    Whilst there have been seven arrivals at the club, Charly Alcaraz played for them last season, Tom King is likely to be the third choice goalkeeper with Mark Travers a backup to Jordan Pickford and Adam Aznou is a young player who Moyes himself has admitted will need time to settle.

  14. New signings have little impactpublished at 10:19 British Summer Time

    Leeds 1-0 Everton

    Jack GrealishImage source, Getty Images

    With the exception of Charly Alcaraz - who was on loan at the club last season - three of Everton's new signings made their Premier League debuts for the club at Elland Road.

    Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall played the full 90 minutes, with Thierno Barry and Jack Grealish coming off the bench in the second half.

    Grealish had little opportunity to impact the game following his introduction, and all three struggled to make Everton much of a threat going forward.

    When asked by Sky Sports about doing more business this summer, David Moyes said: "I'm confident we will get something."

  15. Postpublished at 10:14 British Summer Time

    Sam Drury
    BBC Sport

    I am 1000% behind this, Jonny, and have thought the same for some time.

    The argument against it would be that managers might use them tactically at certain points in the game to break the opponents momentum, for example.

    You can talk about how many reviews and what they could or couldn't be used for but, overall, I reckon it is an idea worthy of further consideration.

  16. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 10:10 British Summer Time

    Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say

    Would a cricket style review system work better? No outside interference, each manager gets one review per game. Successful = keep it, unsuccessful = lose it. Ref goes to review the screen after the manager tells the 4th official about it. All kept in house and one person's opinion throughout.

    Jonny Hancock, Stoke-On-Trent

  17. Everton fail to deliver at Elland Roadpublished at 10:05 British Summer Time

    Leeds 1-0 Everton

    EvertonImage source, Getty Images

    It took 53 minutes for David Moyes' side to manage a single shot on target.

    Even then, it was Charly Alcaraz's tame effort late on that proved to be their best opportunity.

    With an xG of just 0.55 from a total of seven shots, that dropped as low as 0.06 from open play and suggests Everton must improve their attacking threat as the season progresses.

  18. Tanaka and Gudmundsson shinepublished at 09:58 British Summer Time

    Leeds 1-0 Everton

    TanakaImage source, Getty Images

    Dan James and Joel Piroe were two of Leeds United's most important players last season, but both were substituted on 78 minutes.

    Instead it was the tenacity of midfielder Ao Tanaka and the attacking presence of left-back Gabriel Gudmundsson that really caught the eye.

    Tanaka grew in to the game as time went on and the ovation he received from the home crowd at full-time emphasises how important he could be for Leeds this season.

    Meanwhile, Gudmundsson added an extra layer of attacking threat down the left-hand side and played his part in Leeds' first-half dominance.

  19. get involved

    Get Involvedpublished at 09:55 British Summer Time

    Click 'Get Involved' at the top of this page to have your say

    Isn't the point with all the handballs that the on field decision stood? Can't be clear and obvious error given we are all arguing about them. For me, I'd have liked both to be given, but can equally see why both could not be. Referees are allowed opinions too.

    Daniel, Croydon

  20. Leeds silence the criticspublished at 09:49 British Summer Time

    Leeds 1-0 Everton

    Leeds UnitedImage source, Getty Images

    It may have been a controversial penalty that won them the game, but nobody can deny that Leeds United were the better side against Everton

    A dominant first half performance had everything except an opening goal as Daniel Farke's side stuck to the attacking principles that won them the Championship last season.

    With the visitors pinned back in their own half for the opening 45 minutes, Leeds could only manage to get one of their 12 shots on target before the break.

    When the game restarted, Everton did come in to it but were unable to threaten the home side before they were awarded their late penalty.

    In total, Leeds managed 21 shots and an xG of 2.07 across the 90 minutes.