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• USMNT striker due to join the Championship club on loan- Blackburn incorrectly submitted documents to transfer system Orlando City and USMNT forward Duncan McGuire’s transfer to Blackburn Rovers broke down due to an “administrative error”, the English club said in a statement on Wednesday.McGuire was due to join the Championship club on an initial loan until the summer with an option to buy. The two clubs had initially agreed to a $4m permanent deal in the waning days of the January transfer window, but the transfer was cancelled with McGuire mid-flight from Orlando’s training camp in Mexico. Continue reading...

After a bizarre exit from Montreal, the midfielder has resurfaced in Argentina

The Orlando City forward's move to Blackburn has now fallen apart twice within a week

MLS’s glamor franchise embarked on a preseason tour around the globe. It has devolved into a series of defeats, disappointments and disgruntled fansInter Miami were not far into their 23,000-mile, three-week preseason globetrotting tour when they started to hit bumps in the road. The star-studded roadshow featuring headliner Lionel Messi and his newest support act, Luis Suárez, was supposed to take the world by storm, from El Salvador to Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong, but the exercise has backfired. Several defeats and no-shows from the stars left spectators disgruntled, reputations diminished, and the team, as well as fans back home, unsure of how much they will get from their ageing legends once the MLS season starts.As the tour reaches its last leg in Japan against Vissel Kobe on Wednesday, before returning to Miami for a game against Newells Old Boys, it will have witnessed boos for David Beckham, a Cristiano Ronaldo dropout, a 6-0 defeat and an almost surreal statement from the Hong Kong government expressing its “deep disappointment” at Messi’s absence. Continue reading...

Fans booed after Lionel Messi sat on the bench for the entire 90 minutes of Inter Miami's pre-season friendly against a Hong Kong XI due to a hamstring strain. Luis Suárez also failed to take to the pitch because of a knee injury he picked up in Saudi Arabia. The booing became louder in the final minutes with some disappointed fans also chanting 'refund' at the Hong Kong Stadium.After the match, which the MLS side won 4-1, Inter Miami's head coach Gerardo Martino apologised but explained that 'if we had any possibility that they could have played for a while we would have done it. But to do so would have been taking serious risks and that's why we took this decision together with the technical staff.'- Hong Kong officials ‘owed explanation’ as Inter Miami rest injured Lionel Messi Continue reading...

It is currently unclear if the match will be broadcast at all

Inter Miami finally got a win on its long, strange trip, but the club sure didn't make any new friends in Hong Kong

How to watch as Messi and Miami continue their globetrotting ways with a visit to Hong Kong

Miami needs some good news, and Messi avoiding an injury would certainly fit the bill

• Planned meeting between rivals spoiled by injury- Hosts thrash MLS visitors 6-0 as Messi comes on as sub What was billed as a potential final meeting between longtime rivals Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t materialize, but there was no doubt which of the superstars enjoyed Al-Nassr’s 6-0 rout of Inter Miami more on Thursday.Messi spent all but the final seven minutes on the Miami bench looking increasingly glum as Al-Nassr, cheered on by Ronaldo sitting high in the Kingdom Arena stands recovering from a calf injury, ran riot in this friendly and scored three goals in the first 12 minutes. Continue reading...

Things are going all wrong for the Herons, who were crushed by a Ronaldo-free Al Nassr

All the info on what will be a very busy preseason schedule for the Herons

The Inter Miami and Argentina superstar is ready for his Super Bowl debut

Both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo missed the game, which was meant to be a showdown between the rivals

The napkin Lionel Messi used to sign his first Barcelona contract will be available in an auction

This year's Leagues Cup will be slightly different from last year's, including four "home" hubs for Liga MX's best sides

Cristiano Ronaldo has been ruled out of the hugely anticipated friendly

The Last Dance is off

The LA Galaxy players who suddenly became team-mates of world’s most recognizable athlete remember a ‘regular dude’ who helped a fledgling league to then-unthinkable heightsIn the midst of his prime, still the world’s most recognizable athlete and on course to be a free agent in six months’ time, David Beckham had the football world at his feet on 11 January 2007. That’s why the news that broke that day – that the former Manchester United superstar was to leave Real Madrid at the end of the current La Liga season to join LA Galaxy in MLS – was so stunning.“I’m coming there not to be a superstar,” the 31-year-old said in a press conference to formally announce the move the following day. “I’m coming there to be part of the team, to work hard and to hopefully win things. Continue reading...

A key feature of capitalizing on this growth for MLS, according to Howard, means increasing the current salary cap. “For the 2023 season, the budget for MLS clubs was $5.21 million, with the average player earning no more than $651,250 a year. Cristiano Ronaldo nearly makes that in a DAY in Saudi Arabia. $220 million a year… it’s crazy money,” continued Howard.

“And, over in England, Premier League champions Manchester City spent more than $500 million on player wages last season.”

The current NBC Sports analyst went even further to call for larger American markets to be able to flex their financial muscles. “If I’m an owner of an MLS team, and I’m into it for half a billion dollars, I should be able to spend money creating a superpower,” Howard stated. “Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle – there are major cities with everything you need.”

Brazil Under-23 winger Gabriel Pec is the Galaxy's latest big swing

The midfielder is one of the top prospects in MLS, and says he's open to both the U.S. and Mexico

All the info on what will be a very busy preseason schedule for the Herons

The Herons now have two losses and a draw in three preseason matches thus far

The Herons have revealed their new pink jersey, dubbed The 2getherness Jersey