Musiala collapsed twice on the pitch - he announced the diagnosis himself

When Jamal Musiala collapsed in the friendly against Leipzig, Bayern's doctors ran onto the pitch and his teammates formed a human wall around him to shield him from the cameras. Four days later the same thing happened against Heidenheim - he went down right after coming on in the 69th minute. Instead of the club issuing a sterile statement, the player went on social media himself: he has been diagnosed with brief absence seizures caused by neurological dysfunction, easily treatable, with no additional health risk. „I know this looks frightening at first glance, but for me it is part of everyday life”, he wrote. There is something disarming about a million-euro brand speaking about his illness more clearly than clubs and federations do. Whether he will play in the Super Cup against Dortmund is still unknown.

Liverpool is offering 50 million pounds for a player who will not play for eight weeks

Brighton rejected the offered 50 million pounds for Yankuba Minteh. So far that sounds like an ordinary transfer story. The detail that sharpens it: the Gambian had leg surgery a few days ago and is expected to be out for eight weeks. So Liverpool is prepared to pay fifty million for someone who will not set foot on a pitch until autumn. Since Salah's departure the „Reds” have brought in only one winger and are chasing names they do not want to pay the asking price for. Minteh's numbers are decent but not spectacular - 10 goals and nine assists in 73 matches and only nine goals in 66 league games. That is a panic price, not a market price.

115 charges, 20 months of silence, and the boss says it is not a topic

The hearing on the 115 charges against Manchester City ended in December 2024. Since then - nothing. The independent commission still has not published a decision, and the club denies all the allegations. Premier League chief executive Richard Masters now says the case „is not necessarily a topic of conversation with other clubs” and that „the process is the process, it will resolve itself”. Four clubs have already reserved the right to seek compensation if City is found guilty, and the possible penalties are historic. When a league's most senior executive suggests the biggest case in its history is not a priority topic - that is not calm, that is a message that the answer is not coming any time soon.

Herrera assisting, Miovski on the bench: the Macedonian passport across Europe

Borac Banja Luka won 3:1 away at Vikingur and effectively stepped into the Conference League group stage. That success carried a Macedonian signature - Herrera assisted the visitors' opening goal, while Damjan Siskovski watched the match from the bench. The same evening, Rangers beat Jablonec 1:0, but Bojan Miovski again did not come on - all 90 minutes on the bench. That is the double reality of a Macedonian footballer abroad: one has minutes and a contribution at a club fighting for Europe, the other sits and waits for a chance in a stronger league. Both paths lead to the same question ahead of the national team's qualifiers - how many minutes are our players actually collecting across a season?

The Macedonian FA withdrew its support for Infantino, and over 20,000 fans want him out

The petition against Gianni Infantino was launched on 19 August and in a single day gathered over 20,000 signatures from supporters' groups in Europe, Africa and North America. The reason: the idea of selling a stake in the World Cup to private investors. Masters, the same man with nothing to say about the City case, was direct here - FIFA „pressed the self-destruct button” with a „self-inflicted wound”. The story has a Macedonian link too: the Macedonian FA withdrew its support for a new Infantino mandate at the head of FIFA. A small federation, one vote - but in a body where the votes of the small are currency, a withdrawal is a message. Infantino for now has the backing of the confederations of Africa, South America and Oceania.