The men’s Ashes begins on Friday and the Champions League – a competition that commenced on 21 June 2022 – has finally concluded. It must be time for summer sports aficionados to drift happily through the next few months accompanied by the sound of leather on willow and tennis-ball-on-racket. Right?
Wrong. There is always red-hot football transfer news to deal with, and nothing hotter than the news that Declan Rice’s proposed move to Arsenal from West Ham is “a done deal”, according to multiple outlets. The West Ham manager, David Moyes, is eyeing up Fulham’s João Palhinha and Ajax’s Edson Álvarez as potential Rice replacements.
