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Aston Villa fined £19.4m by Uefa for breaching squad-cost rules
Aston Villa have been fined 22.5m euros (£19.4m) by Uefa for a “significant breach” of its squad-cost rule for 2025.
The Villans will also face a restriction on the registration of new players on their squad list for the Champions League next season.
A large part of the fine – 15m euros (£12.9m) – is suspended, depending on the club continuing to significantly decrease their squad-cost ratio in 2026.
In effect, this is a rollover of a suspended punishment handed to the club last summer.
In July 2025, Villa were fined 11m euros (£9.5m), with a further 15m euros (£12.9m) conditional on compliance in a three-year period.
Three other Premier League clubs have also been given financial penalties for breaching the squad-cost rule.
Chelsea have been fined 3m euros (£2.6m), of which 1m euros (£861,000) is suspended.
Nottingham Forest must pay 2.5m euros (£2.2m), with Newcastle United to pay 3m euros (£2.6m).
The Magpies have also reached a settlement for an overspend in relation to Uefa’s football earnings threshold, which means he club must pay a further fine of 10m euros (£8.6m). Of this, 7m euros (£6m) has been suspended pending future compliance.
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Women’s T20 World Cup: Australia v West Indies Highlights
Beth Mooney finishes unbeaten on 61 to help six-time winners Australia ease past West Indies by eight wickets at The Oval, to reach their eighth ICC Women’s T20 World Cup final, where they’ll face England or South Africa.
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Frank Lampard: Coventry boss signs new contract to 2029
Coventry City manager Frank Lampard has signed a new contract until 2029.
The 48-year-old led the Sky Blues to the Championship title last year to seal promotion to the Premier League.
His previous deal was due to expire at the end of next season, and Lampard attracted interest from other clubs, including Fulham, this summer.
The former Chelsea and England midfielder has now committed himself to Coventry as they prepare to return to the top flight for the first time in 25 years.
The Sky Blues begin the season against champions Arsenal on Friday, 21 August.
Lampard said: “After the incredible work of everybody to get promoted and win the Championship, it was important to enjoy the moment, and we certainly did as a city.
“Our job then as staff, and for the players of course, is to firstly recharge but also focus on what we want to do and what we need to for next season. There’s a lot of work to do on and off the pitch as a football club, so those things have been ongoing.
“I’m looking forward to getting back with the players, to see them all and get ready for the new season.”
Lampard replaced Mark Robins as Sky Blues manager in November 2024 when they were 17th in the Championship, just two points above the relegation zone.
Coventry won 16 out of the remaining 29 matches in the Championship that season, finishing in fifth place and earning a place in the play-offs. They lost 3-2 on aggregate to Sunderland in the play-off semi-finals.
Lampard then led them to the Championship title, winning 28 matches – the most Coventry have ever managed in a league season – and ending a 25-year wait for top-flight football.
The former England midfielder started his managerial career at Derby County, before spells at Chelsea (twice) and Everton.
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Tyson Fury to fight Marius Wach in Thailand as warm-up to Anthony Joshua clash
Tyson Fury will fight Poland’s Marius Wach in Thailand on 24 July as a warm-up for a potential all-British encounter with Anthony Joshua.
Fury’s fight in Pattaya – where the 38-year-old trains – will be a day before Joshua makes his comeback on 25 July against Kristian Prenga in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – his first fight since being involved in a car crash that killed two of his friends in Nigeria in December 2025.
Both Fury and Joshua, 36, need to win their fights to set up a meeting between the two former world champions, which is scheduled to happen in 2026.
Wach, 46, has a record of 39 wins from 51 fights, 20 by knockout.
But the Pole has won just three of his past 10 bouts and suffered a second-round stoppage to Britain’s Moses Itauma in a WBO Intercontinental heavyweight title fight in July 2024.
He has been defeated by English boxers Dillian Whyte in 2019 and Frazer Clarke four years later.
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn announced in April that the London 2012 Olympic gold medallist had signed to fight Fury.
That announcement came after Fury had made his return from a 15-month retirement with a points win over Russia’s Arslanbek Makhmudov at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
After that victory, Fury immediately called out Joshua, who was ringside, and the pair exchanged words with the Morecambe fighter attempting to goad his rival into the ring.
There has been growing speculation that their fight could be held in the United States because of the involvement of Saudi powerbroker Turki Alalshikh.
But last week Hearn told BBC Sport that Joshua and Fury are contractually committed to staging their fight in the UK.
Fury had previously hinted that his interim fight would take place in Dublin on 1 August.
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