Carl Anka

4 days ago | nytimes.com | David Ornstein |Carl Anka |James McNicholas |James Pearce

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Athletic’s Transfer DealSheet for the summer 2025 transfer window. Our team of dedicated writers, including David Ornstein, will take you inside the market to explain the deals being worked on. The mini-window ahead of the Club World Cup closed earlier this month, but the regular summer transfer window opened last week and will now run until September 1. The information found within this article has been gathered according to The Athletic’s sourcing guidelines.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Carl Anka |Jessica Hopkins

After a season to forget, Manchester United will be keen to start the 2025-26 campaign in far better fashion. They will kick off with a crunch home game against Arsenal in the pick of the opening-day fixtures. The Manchester derbies will take place at the Etihad Stadium on September 13 and at Old Trafford on January 17, with games against Liverpool October 18 (away) and May 2 (home). After losing the Europa League final to Tottenham Hotspur, they will not feature in European competition in 2025-26.

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Carl Anka

Another transfer window, another shopping list for Manchester United. In previous summers, The Athletic went shopping for Erik ten Hag to find players who best suited the Dutchman's system at United. In 2025, there is a new head coach in Ruben Amorim, but the principle remains the same: which players might be a perfect fit at Old Trafford? We're looking at strikers to begin with, but devising a shortlist is difficult.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Carl Anka

Manchester United have unveiled the new home kit they will wear for the 2025-26 season, a campaign in which they will receive a reduced payment from their kit supplier Adidas due to their failure to qualify for the Champions League.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Carl Anka |Anantaajith Raghuraman

When Manchester United signed Jadon Sancho from Borussia Dortmund in a deal worth £73million in 2021, he was so highly thought of that many believed United had got the forward for a relative bargain. But fast forward to 2025 and Chelsea have just paid a £5million ($6.8m) penalty clause to United rather than continue to negotiate personal terms with Sancho to make a proposed £24m loan move permanent. A lot of money has changed hands for Sancho's services over the past five years.