Across the seven games in which Bournemouth took points off Arsenal, Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea last season, it is telling that Alex Scott was nearly ever-present, playing 625 of a possible 630 minutes.

It's been brief. Kerolin only joined the Women's Super League from the NWSL 18 months ago. She's about to leave as the English top-flight's most expensive export.

On the verge of signing for Barcelona, Kerolin's £1.28m fee would break the current record held by Olivia Smith's sale from Liverpool to Arsenal last summer. Barca are willing to smash their own transfer policy in pursuit of the Brazilian, too, having never previously paid a fee over £500k.

Newcastle have completed the signing of midfielder Aladji Bamba from Monaco. 

Sky Sports News understands Newcastle will pay an initial fee of £30m, plus £5.5m in potential add-ons.

Bamba has signed a five-year contract and will wear the No 8 shirt, previously taken by Sandro Tonali before his £100m exit to join Tottenham earlier in the window.

Jurgen Klopp has warned he will walk away from his new job as Germany's head coach if the German media don't "leave my family in peace".

Klopp has returned to management on a contract that runs until the end of the 2030 World Cup after leaving Liverpool in 2024 because he was "running out of energy", having won six trophies in nine years at the club.

It’s a shame most fans of the “Avatar” franchise won’t have the chance to see its first animated feature on the big screen. (M. Night Shyamalan’s risible 2010 live-action film will be acknowledged here and here only.) “Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender” is the first official release from Avatar Studios, the shingle set up half a decade ago — animation takes time! — to expand the cult hit animated show and its sequel series “The Legend of Korra” into a broader franchise. “Avatar Aang” does so with gorgeous visuals and thoughtful worldbuilding that would surely benefit from the theatrical distribution the movie was originally slated to receive. Instead, the movie will be available on the big screen only for a limited, awards-qualifying run in New York and L.A. Everyone else will have to settle for streaming it on Paramount+, though even a scaled-down viewing experience still delivers on both excitement and nostalgia.

This Is Goodbye

‘Hate To Go (Take Out or Delivery)’ will feature new single, “Burned Out,” and be followed by a 2027 farewell tour

Ministry will release their 17th and final album, Hate To Go (Take Out or Delivery), on Oct. 30 via Cleopatra Records. The band previewed the LP with the fittingly-titled single “Burned Out.”

Fred Tsui, the veteran Hong Kong sales executive and founder of Moebius Entertainment, has been appointed executive director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, the organization announced Friday.

It's been said that a finely tuned ear knows the size and shape of a piano by merely listening to the instrument's notes. An international team of physicists has now devised an analogous approach to detect the universe's hidden particles at high energies—opening a potential pathway for discovering new laws of physics.

Subaru

I get to do a lot of really cool stuff in this job, but when I was asked if I'd like to travel to the UK with Subaru to drive the new base model 2026 WRX on a track, go to Jeremy Clarkson's pub, then attend the famed Goodwood Festival of Speed to watch Travis Pastrana huck the badass Brataroo up the hill, I squealed with delight. It's the same as asking your dog if they want to go for a walk — the answer is a hearty "hell yeah!"