Millwall have completed the signing of Montpellier winger Yanis Issoufou after FIFA confirmed the player's international clearance could be granted.
The 19-year-old has joined the Lions on a long-term contract and becomes the club's 13th signing of the summer transfer window.
The winger progressed through Montpellier's academy, featuring for the club's Under-19 and B teams before breaking into the first team.
Issoufou scored six goals last season and has already made four appearances in the 2026-27 campaign, finding the net once.
Millwall's director of football Steve Gallen believes the young winger has the attributes to develop into an important player for the club.

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Diamondbacks right-hander Corbin Burnes threw strikes, got a couple of outs and then threw a little more in the bullpen. It was, he said, a good first step. He hopes that after one more, he might be ready to make his long-awaited return.
Burnes pitched on Tuesday, Aug. 25, in a so-called "bridge camp" game at Sloan Park in Mesa, recording two outs and allowing a single against a lineup of Chicago Cubs minor leaguers.
Pitching in the same game was Diamondbacks right-hander Zac Gallen, who gave up one run in three innings.
Burnes' fastball was mostly in the low-90s, topping at 93 mph.
"It was good," Burnes said. "Came out and threw strikes. Did what I needed to do. The misses we had were right around the zone. That was kind of my whole goal coming back was to make sure we're filling up the strike zone and being around it. Give ourselves a chance to get outs. From the look of it, shapes, everything was pretty good there."

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Millwall have completed the free signing of full-back Jordi Osei-Tutu on a one-year contract.
Osei-Tutu, 27, left Bolton Wanderers at the end of last season after helping them win promotion to the Championship and has been training with Millwall for the past two weeks.
The right-back began his career at **** nal's academy and spent time at Bochum, Cardiff City, Nottingham Forest, Rotherham United and Greek side PAS Giannina before joining Bolton in August 2024.
"[Jordi] is an experienced full-back," Millwall's director of football Steve Gallen told the club website.
"He is quick and is a very good one-v-one defender.

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Baseball is a funny sport sometimes. There aren't very many sports or opportunities in life where you can get embarrassed and then come back less than 24 hours later to face the exact same team and completely flip the script and result of the two contests. Thankfully, baseball isn't most sports and that's exactly what the D-Backs were able to accomplish on Wednesday night, taking a shutout performance all the way into the top of the ninth while absolutely teeing off on San Diego pitching throughout the night. The victory not only gave the D-Backs some extra padding in their Wild Card lead, but also put them that much closer to securing the season series against the Friar's – an important tiebreak consideration as we enter the last quarter of the season and sprint towards the playoffs.
The starting rotation has been a weakness for the team throughout the season – led by disappointing results from Merrill Kelly and Zac Gallen. That disappointment and weakness has opened the opportunity for a pair of rookies to make their case for a rotation spot in Mitch Bratt and Kohl Drake, two of the three players the Rangers exchanged in the Merrill Kelly trade last season. The two rookies have had an uneven introduction to the big leagues in their first eight combined starts, but Bratt's sixth career start was a huge step forward, giving the youngster his first big league win. I don't want to overstate the performance. It's always impressive when a rookie is able to complete seven innings of scoreless baseball, regardless of the relative weakness of the opposing offense. But it's also not as if Bratt had pinpoint command of all of his pitches, throwing slightly more than half of his 92 pitches on the night for a strike.I think it's more accurate to describe the outing as effectively wild rather than wildly effective. Regardless, limiting the Padres to just three walks is an important developmental milestone for the young lefty whose walk rate has skyrocketed since making his debut and will be a closely watched development moving forward.
Of course, with the way the Arizona offense was cooking tonight, an effective position player could have likely earned a win on the mound. It was exactly the kind of balanced offensive attack that Torey Lovullo often preaches with valuable contributions coming from nearly every player in the lineup as seven out of nine of the starters got at least one hit or more. Even better, it didn't overly rely on a single method for scoring, but featured sacrifice flies, home runs, and timely hits with runners in scoring position. They got the party started in the third with a sacrifice fly from Gabriel Moreno scoring Corbin Carroll who had walked, stolen second, and moved to third already. Tim Tawa added another run on a two-out blast off a lifeless splitter, but it wasn't until the fourth that the party really started. After James McCann led off the inning with a harmless flyout, his teammates started a hit parade with five straight k

Because not even the off-day can come without some ****** mer Mariners news, Adam Jude of the Seattle Times reports that the Mariners are parting ways with ****** istant hitting coach Bobby Magallenes.
Magallanes joined the staff prior to the 2025 season along with hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, both of whom had been unceremoniously fired by Atlanta after the 2024 season when the Braves finished the season 89-73. That mark was good for second place in the AL East, but broke the Braves' streak of six consecutive division ****** les, even though Atlanta still qualified for the playoffs, where they were swept by the Padres in the Wild Card series. It was a surprising move at the time, and looked on with consternation by many Atlanta fans as Seitzer and Magallanes went on to help the 2025 Mariners get deeper into the playoffs than any other Mariners team in history, making it all the way to the ALCS.
But baseball is often a sport of what-have-you-done-for-me-lately, and the Mariners, floundering after a 3-3 homestand against two of the worst teams in the NL, opted to make a move to try to spark some offense. While bold staffing changes is a common mid-season move among teams that are dramatically failing to live up to expectations, it's curious that Seitzer and Magallanes – long regarded as a package deal and sharing a similar hitting philosophy – weren't both let go. The ineptitude of the Mariners offense, last or near the bottom of the list in most offensive categories, is obvious, but like the 2024 Braves, Seattle's lineup has been wracked by injuries that have affected, at least temporarily, basically every member of the Opening Day roster except second baseman Cole Young [knocks on wood, pours salt circle, extends giant protective umbrella over Cole]. Furthermore, the bilingual Magallanes was a popular figure in the clubhouse, known for his "heck yeah, shoot yeah!" exclamation after wins or offensive outbursts; the deeply religious Magallanes was also a faith leader on the staff, something that resonated with hitters and pitchers alike.
While Seitzer preached an overall hitting mindset and approach, Magallanes's role on staff was to be responsible for more of the nuts-and-bolts mechanical adjustments, something Director of Hitting Edgar Martinez (who remains on staff) also focuses on, so the team might be looking for a new voice to fill that particular role and hopefully create some better on-field results.
To do that, they've promoted Ed Paparella, the Mariners' minor-league hitting coordinator, to a major-league role. The Mariners actually signed Paparella back in 2021 as a free agent out of South Alabama, and while he never played professionally, he quickly ascended the ranks of the minor leagues. At 31, Paparella is more than two decades younger than the 56-year-old Magallanes, and three decades younger than Martinez or Seitzer, perhaps providing more of a peer-adjacent perspective for the Mariners and creating some age diversity on the hi

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Bournemouth are in talks with Benfica to sign Portugal defender Antonio Silva as a replacement for Marcos Senesi.
The Cherries have targeted the 22-year-old following Senesi's decision to leave on a free transfer and join Tottenham Hotspur.
Silva is seen as a good ball-playing replacement for the Argentina centre-back, although Benfica have paused further progression in the talks as they look to get through Europa League qualifying.
The Portuguese club face St Gallen in Switzerland on 23 July, with the return a week later in Lisbon.
Silva has been a regular for Benfica since breaking into the first team in 2022 and has featured in the Champions League, Europa League and Club World Cup.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ildemaro Vargas had two hits, including a go-ahead single in the sixth inning, and the Arizona Diamondbacks overcame Shohei Ohtani's 22nd home run in a 5-3 victory over the sloppy Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday that finished a three-game sweep heading into the All-Star break.
Ohtani went 2 for 4 and is batting .293 with 22 homers and 58 RBIs while going 8-2 with a 1.79 ERA and 95 strikeouts in 85 2/3 innings over 14 starts. The four-time MVP is skipping Tuesday's All-Star Game to have his left knee drained to relieve continued irritation.
Nolan Arenado scored a run and had an RBI as the Diamondbacks extended their winning streak to four games in their first road sweep of the Dodgers since Sept. 4-6, 2017.
Ohtani hit his ninth leadoff homer this season, connecting on the first pitch from rookie Mitch Bratt, who started because Zac Gallen went on the injured list with elbow inflammation.
Two-time defending champion Los Angeles heads into the break a major league-best 61-36. Tommy Edman had a two-run, third-inning single that built a 3-0 lead for Los Angeles, which had a passed ball and two more errors and has nine errors over five games.

The final game before the All-Star break, the Dodgers taking on the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday in Los Angeles, features a pitcher looking to turn things around after a rough stretch.
Emmet Sheehan certainly fits this description, though it really applies to Zac Gallen, who ranks dead last among 61 qualified pitchers in both ERA (6.34) and xERA (6.53). The longtime D-backs ace had a 3.14 ERA and 5.17 xERA through the end of April, but since then has allowed 63 runs (59 earned) in 69 1/3 innings for a 7.66 ERA and 7.11 xERA in his last 13 starts.
Sheehan had a ******* py ride in June but has recovered to allow one run with five strikeouts in each of his last two starts, though he needed 96 pitches to tally just 4 1/3 innings last Sunday against the San Diego Padres.
Teams: Dodgers vs. D-backs
Ballpark: Dodger Stadium

LOS ANGELES — Diamondbacks right-hander Zac Gallen will not make his scheduled start on Sunday, July 12, and likely is headed to the injured list due to right elbow inflammation, manager Torey Lovullo said on Saturday, July 11.
Left-hander Mitch Bratt, who is with the team at Dodger Stadium as a member of the taxi squad, is likely to start on Sunday.
Lovullo said Gallen mentioned having felt something in his elbow after his outing earlier this week in San Diego. He returned to Phoenix to undergo an MRI, which Lovullo said revealed inflammation.
It is the latest starting pitcher injury to befall the Diamondbacks, who have been inundated with rotation injuries in recent weeks. Right-handers Ryne Nelson (elbow) and Michael Soroka (glute) were lost on consecutive days last month, injuries that came a few weeks after right-hander Corbin Burnes (shoulder) suffered an injury as he was working his way back from elbow surgery.
“Those are the guys we were projecting were going to carry the heavy workload,” Lovullo said. “But we know the landscape and we’ve got to make adjustments.

The San Diego Padres seemed to have turned a corner. The final four games before the All-Star break will tell a bit more, but the club has its first two-game win streak since June 26. The offense also tagged the Arizona Diamondbacks’ pitching staff for a season-high 10 runs last night. San Diego is, at the very least, heading in the right direction.
The lineup looked fantastic in Wednesday night’s win over the Dbacks. Luis Campusano hit his first home run since returning from the IL and Miguel Andujar had three (yes, you read that right) doubles. San Diego will need to keep its foot on the gas to achieve its first series win of July against Arizona tonight.
Similar to Zac Gallen, Kelly has been an ace in the past for Arizona and has looked nothing like it this year. The right-hander has been saddled with a 5.71 ERA this year. He’s been even worse lately, pitching to a 6.28 ERA in his last 38 2/3 innings.
Prediction of the day: Fernando Tatis Jr. is going to hit a home run. Across 31 at-bats against Kelly, Tatis has four home runs and a 1.186 career OPS. Unless Kelly has his stuff working tonight, it seems plenty possible that No. 6 comes tonight for Tatis.
Canning has actually pitched considerably better in his last two outings than he has this whole season. After turning in his worst start of the year (4 ER, 0.2 IP), Canning has since given up just three runs across 8 1/3 innings. It’s not miraculous, but it’s a start.

The Dbacks needed a big start from Brandon Pfaadt, and he was able to deliver on Tuesday night in his first start back in the major league rotation. Early on in the game, many fans were quick to note some mechanical changes to Pfaadt’s delivery as he started on the 1st base side of the rubber and seemed to go away from bringing his hands over his head to initiate his windup. His motion definitely appear a lot cleaner. He was able to give them 5.1 innings giving up just 3 hits and 1 run and was super-efficient needing just 66 pitches to pitch into the 6th inning. Pfaadt’s start definitely set the tone for the game as the Dbacks battled to get back above .500.
On the offensive side, the Lourdes Gurriel Jr hot streak watch is also officially on as he homered in the first inning with 2 on and is now 8 for his last 22 with 4 doubles and a home run. We all know what it can look like when Lourdes gets on a heater, and fortunately for the Dbacks it may be coming at the perfect time as they desperately need the offense. Later in the game, Ketel Marte homered in his 4th straight game tying a franchise record. An absolute no doubter on an 0-2 pitch that went 431 feet. This is such a great sign to see for the budding all star as he continues his recent tear. Max Kepler was also able to collect his first hits as a Dback tonight as he doubled in the bottom of the first inning and later singled. A good sign for the recent pickup.
Tonight was all Dbacks as they won their franchise record 8th straight game against a single team to start the season. They have had the Giants number all season, and this series could have come at a better time.
The Dbacks will go for a 3 game sweep tomorrow evening as they send Zac Gallen to the mound as he looks to right the ship. A sweep would be great to see for this team after they were just swept themselves this past weekend, especially considering they are gearing up for a tough series against the red-hot Milwaukee Brewers this weekend.

God, what an utterly stupid game. Zac Gallen was going for us. Turns out it didn’t matter who was going for the Twins, though for the record it was Taj Bradley. Our Mr. Gallen really outdid himself tonight, though. His ERA was was sitting at a cool 5.35 at the start of the game; it was 6.10 by the time he checked out with no outs in the fifth. Yilber Diaz made his debut in relief, and recorded two outs, and by the time he hit the showers, his ERA had reached 94.50 for the season so far. So yeah. It was like that.
Basically, it was garbage time the whole way through. Okay, maybe not through the first three innings—Gallen gave up two in the first, to make it 2-0 Minnesota, but then actually recorded two quick, clean innings in which he only threw 17 pitches total. But he got nickel-and-dimed in the bottom of the fourth, as the Twins started the inning with a strikeout followed by five straight singles before Gallen recorded the second out, and then there was a sixth single and a walk before the frame finally ended with four more runs having crossed the plate and the Twins batting around to bring the score to 6-0 Minnesota.
For whatever it was worth, Gallen was only at 72 pitches at that point, and most of us in the Gameday Thread had come into the game simply hoping that Gallen would eat some innings since last night we wound up using eight relievers. But Gallen came out for the fifth, gave up a triple and two singles on nine pitches, and Torey Lovullo made the choice to pull him. In came Yilber Diaz, fresh off the bus from Reno, and things really didn’t get any better. Diaz surrendered a single, a walk, and a Byron Buxton grand slam before recording the first out of the inning, and then three more singles, a double, and yet another triple before finally being pulled after only recording two outs total and allowing Minnesota to bat around on him alone. His seatmate on the bus up from Reno this morning, Philip Abner, took over and finally recorded the third out of the inning, but not before ten more runs had crossed the plate. 16-0 Minnesota
Then it really was garbage time, of course, with both teams swapping out their starters to give their bench players some at bats. Our boys made the most of ours and made the box score look a little bit respectable at least if you didn’t drill into the details. Adrian Del Castillo led off the fifth with a single, and scored two pitches later on Jorge Barrosa’s second home run of the season to narrow the gap to 16-2 Minnesota. We got five more back in the seventh thanks to Twins reliever Justin Lawrence, who walked four batters and then gave up a double and a single to get us to 16-7 Minnesota. Barrosa doubled to lead off the eighth and was driven in by Tommy Troy’s RBI single to cap the scoring at 16-8 Minnesota.
On the upside, at least, Abner pitching three scoreless innings in total, before giving way to Ildemaro Vargas, who wasn’t even in the lineup to start the game, and Ildemaro pitched the last five out

At the beginning of this series, Mark Grace remarked that the Diamondbacks needed to take advantage of the starting pitching matchups in the first two games because – on paper at least – they favored the D-Backs. The first game featured a resurgent Eduardo Rodriguez against youngster Emmet Sheehan while the second one pitted the reinvented Michael Soroka against journeyman Eric Lauer. Grace's recommendation was certainly heeded in the first game when Rodriguez went six innings and allowed just one run, but Soroka wasn't quite able to take the baton the next night even if he ended stronger than he started. Frustratingly, the script flipped on starting pitching beginning with Shohei Ohtani and his otherworldly 0.82 ERA going tonight while Justin Wrobleski and his excellent 2.87 ERA will round out the series. As expected, the D-Backs ran headlong into the buzzsaw that Ohtani has been on the ***** p this season while Zac Gallen labored through just five innings and gave up five runs. There were essentially no highlights for the D-Backs tonight, just lowlights. Seriously, if you're a Diamondbacks' fan, go read a book or talk to a friend instead.
The vibes for the night started off poorly with Ketel Marte being scratched from the lineup late with "full body fatigue" that was later clarified to be more focused on his hamstring as Torey Lovullo explained that he would prefer to give him a day off today than push him through the pain. They did not improve through the night. After a scoreless first, Mookie Betts leadoff the second inning by reaching on a slightly off-target throw from Geraldo Perdomo that was immediately cashed in on a mammoth home run from Kyle Tucker off a flat Gallen fastball that sat middle-middle. The third also started with a pair of leadoff base runners with a walk to Ohtani, a double from Andy Pages, and a two-run single from Freddie Freeman. Max Muncy would add another run on a single that somehow eluded Gallen and Perdomo to reach the outfield and allow Freeman to motor around for a fifth LA run. Brandon Pfaadt came into the game in relief and failed to provide much confidence in his role moving forward. After collecting a couple quick outs, he loaded the bases on a Muncy double, a Will Smith walk, and an Alex Call hit by pitch that was again quickly cashed in by an Alex Freeland single up the middle that once again eluded the infield defenders.
Meanwhile, the Ohtani show was in full effect tonight. He extended his no-hit streak another 3.2 IP until Gabriel Moreno broke up his no-hitter with a two-out double in the fourth – one of just two hits and three baserunners the ***** anese ace allowed over six innings of work. The D-Backs would muster just two more baserunners for the remainder of the game with a two-out walk to Jose Fernandez and a fielding error on a ball Moreno put into play on the left side of the infield. They did little to generate any baserunners and continued to struggle to find any kind of offensive rhythm aft