The 22-year-old had emerged as a player of interest for the Scottish champions earlier this year, with reports in May claiming Celtic had outlined their plans in an attempt to persuade him to make the move to Glasgow.
Italian side Sampdoria were also credited with an interest, although Basel ultimately won the race after stepping up their pursuit in recent weeks.
According to reports, the Swiss club have agreed a fee of around €3 million with Azerbaijani side Sabah FK to secure the signature of the wideman.
Basel officially confirmed Malouda's arrival this week as they continue reshaping their squad ahead of the new campaign.
He arrives as the replacement for Benie Traore, who recently departed for Major League Soccer after joining New York City FC.

#interest #side #celtic

Wales have finished in a disappointing 10th place at the Commonwealth Games after losing 63-53 to Tonga in their ranking play-off, two places lower than four years ago.
The Welsh Feathers ended their 2022 Birmingham campaign eighth and will leave Glasgow after another frustrating result in a campaign that produced one win and five defeats, having only beaten Trinidad and Tobago in the group stage.
The Welsh Feathers started brightly against Tonga, with captain Bethan **** feeding goal shooter Georgia Rowe well in attack to lead 10-14 at the quarter-time break.
Tonga rallied in the second, forcing Wales into errors from which they capitalised to bring the scores back level at 29–29 after 30 minutes.
The pressure on Wales continued as Tonga took control, netting 19 goals for the second quarter in a row and stretching their lead to 10 at three-quarter time.

#wales #quarter #campaign #time

Guernsey bowlers Jason Greenslade and Ian Merrien kept their medals hopes alive at the 2026 Commonwealth Games with a 2-0 win over Malta.
The island duo moved to the top of their group on shots difference after defeating Troy Lorimer and Shaun Parnis in their fourth match.
Unbeaten rivals Malaysia - who they face in their final game on Saturday - have a game in hand in Guernsey's men's pair but face a tough test against Wales later on Friday.
The Guernsey pair recovered from a 5-0 deficit after the first two ends against Malta to win the first set 6-5 in Glasgow.
They then took a 5-0 lead in the second set which they did not relinquish as they went on to win 9-3.

#guernsey #merrien

Scotland's Melanie Woods has won the Commonwealth Games women's 1500m T54 for the second time in under 40 hours after streaking to victory in the restaged final - however England's Ellis Kottas could not replicate her silver medal.
Woods set a new Games record to triumph in Glasgow on Wednesday evening, but it emerged on Thursday morning that Para-athletics authorities had decided the race should be held again following appeals surrounding a first-lap crash.
However, the Scot kept her composure in her home city to replicate her initial success, break the record again, and reclaim the gold that was already hers - in mind if not around her neck.
Kottas, though, finished fourth, having said she was "low-key traumatised" when the race result was overturned.
Woods led from the start in her home city, although Noemi Alphonse of Mauritius and Australia's Eliza Ault-Connell kept her honest over the first couple of laps.

#games #kottas #record

Guernsey bowlers Jason Greenslade and Ian Merrien kept their medals hopes alive at the 2026 Commonwealth Games with a 2-0 win over Malta.
The island duo moved to the top of their group on shots difference after defeating Troy Lorimer and Shaun Parnis in their fourth match.
Unbeaten rivals Malaysia - who they face in their final game on Saturday - have a game in hand in Guernsey's men's pair but face a tough test against Wales later on Friday.
The Guernsey pair recovered from a 5-0 deficit after the first two ends against Malta to win the first set 6-5 in Glasgow.
They then took a 5-0 lead in the second set which they did not relinquish as they went on to win 9-3.

#guernsey #face #greenslade

And in the relative blink of an eye, the new Scottish Premiership season is upon us with much to live up to compared to last time, an epic campaign that looked like making the impossible possible for month upon month.
How Scotland, and other parts of the world, became entranced by the fairytale only for reality of sport's essential brutality to hit them square between the eyes at Celtic Park on denouement day.
If there is a non-Glasgow team capable of roughing up the big two as Heart of Midlothian did repeatedly last season then we're in for a wild ride.
If this league campaign goes to the final three minutes on the final day, if the domestic football story to beat all domestic football stories is in touching distance as the campaign swings for home next spring then we'll be blessed.
If. ******* ody will be betting a brass farthing on history repeating itself, though. True, ******* ody really saw Hearts coming last time, but does lightning strike twice?

#campaign #nobody #upon

We've made it to day eight of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and it's a big one for boxing with a number of semi-finals as the athletes look to upgrade on the bronze medals they have already won.
Northern Ireland's netball team play an 11th/12th place classification match against Trinidad and Tobago at the Hydro at 09:00.
Cycling action starts at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome, with Esther Wong going in the women's 400m individual pursuit qualification.
Matti Dobbins will compete in the qualification of the men's elimination race while Erin Creighton and Emma Jeffers will go in the women's 10k scratch race qualification.
If they make it through the various cycling finals will take place from 16:00.

#finals #race #glasgow

It was never about a medal for Laura Muir on her Glasgow return.
The middle-distance runner is the only female in Team Scotland to have been part of both the 2014 and 2026 team, but she couldn't be more of a different athlete.
Twelve years ago, the then-21-year-old was not used to the sound of slabs of metal clanging around her neck or even hearing her name in medal-winning conversations.
She didn't leave those Games with those things, either.
But on her return to Glasgow for the 2026 edition, the 33-year-old bounced along to the sound of silverware clattering and with the **** le as one of the best at her business in the last decade in tow.

#sound #laura #muir

Megan Keith's grandad had two goals. To make it to 100 years old and then to watch the Commonwealth Games.
Dr Murray Kirkwood achieved both - and even saw his granddaughter win a bronze medal in the women's 5000m at Scotstoun.
He's no stranger to the ground. As an ardent Glasgow Warriors fan, he delivered the match ball before Franco Smith's side hosted Benetton in March, days before he became a centenarian.
He's had some memorable nights round these parts, but watching Megan tear to the podium should eclipse them. Well, so she hopes...
"He's a bit of a phenomenon," Keith, who finished a disappointing ninth in the 10,000m earlier in the week, told BBC Scotland.

#megan

Derek McInnes will officially begin his reign as Rangers boss with a trip to Tannadice Park on Friday night. Despite snapping up seven new names, the Scotsman is expected to be backed with further additions before the window is slammed shut next month. But the focus must be on the upcoming clash with Dundee United, as a victory on the road should boost the Gers ahead of their crucial Europa League qualifier against Jagiellonia Białystok.
Although their most recent encounter finished 4-2 in favour of Rangers, a last-gasp spot-kick from Nedim Bajrami saw them escape defeat when they clashed heads in Dundee back in December. It won't be a stroll in the park for the Glasgow giants, and it remains to be seen whether McInnes replicates last season's tactical mastery while in charge of Hearts.
The Light Blues have replaced Jack Butland with Ivor Pandur, as the former Hull City goalkeeper has been roped in as the new 'number 1'. Veteran Liam Kelly would continue as the understudy to the Croatian following his contract renewal earlier this summer.
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – JULY 26: Ben Godfrey of Rangers with a headed clearance during a pre-season friendly match between Rangers and West Ham at Ibrox Stadium on July 26, 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by WM Sport Media/Getty Images)
James Tavernier's departure has left a massive void down the right-hand side. Ross McCrorie has returned to his boyhood club, but the gaffer should rely on Dujon Sterling, who has impressed as a fullback in their pre-season outings. Ben Godfrey, snapped up on a season-long loan from Atalanta, is expected to feature alongside Emmanuel Fernandez in the heart of the backline. Tuur Rommens has been a revelation since his January arrival, and his presence on the left would offer a perfect balance between defence and attack.

#july

England sprinter Zac Shaw says winning Commonwealth Games gold in the T12 100m is "part of the grief journey" following the death of his mother last summer.
Shaw's mum, Evette, died "nearly a year ago to the day" as the 30-year-old clinched his first individual international gold medal in Glasgow in a time of 10.89 seconds.
His was one of two athletics medals for Team England on Thursday, as shot putter Scott Lincoln took bronze.
"Ever since [his mum's death] happened, in the back of my head my journey of grief has been centred around this," Shaw told BBC Sport.
"This has been the one thing that's got me through it."

#journey #evette

Princess Anne, Prince Edward and their spouses were in attendance at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland
The Commonwealth Games are held every four years and feature athletes from across the British Commonwealth competing in a selection of sports
Anne and Edward were seen observing track cycling, weight lifting and more
Princess Anne and Prince Edward had a sibling outing at the Commonwealth Games.
Anne, 75, and Edward, 62, were accompanied by their respective spouses, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, 71, and Sophie, the ***** ss of Edinburgh, 61, as they visited several sports venues in Glasgow, Scotland, to take in some of this year's competitions on Thursday, July 30.

#Scotland

Cricket, archery and shooting are among the sports well placed to regain their spot at the Commonwealth Games in India in 2030.
Only 10 sports were included in the ongoing Glasgow Games because of the rushed build-up after the Australian state of Victoria pulled out as hosts.
Discussions on the sporting programme remain ongoing between Commonwealth Sport, sporting federations and the Indian organising committee for the next Games, which will be held in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Commonwealth Sport chief executive Katie Sadlier would not be drawn on the process but India Olympic ***** ociation's Raghu Iyer said: "There are many sports who will feel they have missed out.
"There are sports in which India has done very well, shooting, archery and many other sports."

#commonwealth #games #archery

There are a total of 15 different events taking place in track cycling and para track cycling during the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, with 26 gold medals up for grabs.
In track cycling, there are nine different events, all of which have men's and women's competitions.
Para track cycling has four events. Two are completely identical across the men's and women's competitions, but there are different classifications for para-athletes in the men's and women's 1km time trial and individual pursuit.
Here is an explanation of what the 15 different events involve.
Cycling events will take place across three days at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow [Getty Images]

#Cycling #para #place

Wales have collected 15 medals so far at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with two gold, five silvers and eight bronze medals.
There are four more guaranteed medals after boxers Rosie Eccles, Owain Harris-Allan, Orlando Holley-Sotomi and Connor Williams reached Friday's semi-finals and will therefore win at least a bronze.
Wales' most successful Games were on the Gold Coast in 2018 where they won home 36 medals, including 10 golds, 12 silvers and 14 bronze, but the streamlined nature of this Glasgow event makes it difficult to compare.
The 2026 medals include six in swimming, four in athletics, three in artistic gymnastics, and one each in bowls and weightlifting.
The swimming relay podium position count as one medal per race but all the competitors who took part in the heat or finals of that event will be given a medal. That means 13 Welsh swimmers leave Glasgow with medals.

#silvers #four #finals

Glasgow hosts a slimmed-down version of the Commonwealth Games as athletes from 74 nations and territories compete for gold in the Scottish city.
Glasgow stepped in after the Australian state of Victoria backed out three years ago due to the cost of hosting the Games.
The 10-sport programme, including six Para sports, will feature athletics, gymnastics, cycling and swimming - and will take place across four Glasgow venues.
The 11,000-spectator Scotstoun Stadium will stage the athletics as well as the biggest home star of the Games, new mile world record holder Josh Kerr.
The Games will be shown live across TNT Sports and HBO Max, rather than on the BBC or terrestrial television.

#athletics

Matt Richards has created Wales swimming history by winning a fourth Commonwealth medal at one Games.
Richards, 23, claimed silver in the 200m freestyle alongside James Guy after the Englishman recorded the same time with Australian Kai Taylor taking the gold.
Only Valerie Davies in the first Games in 1930 and Michael Richards and Martyn Woodroffe 40 years later had previously managed three medals in one Games.
Matthew Richards has now surpassed them with his tally of two silver and two bronze with the swimmer having not won a Commonwealth Games medal before Glasgow.
He was part of two bronze relay squads before claiming his first individual podium position with silver in the 100m freestyle on Tuesday night.

#medal #freestyle

Northern Ireland's Ellie McCartney has won a bronze medal in the women's 200m **** troke final at the Commonwealth Games.
McCartney, 21, finished third behind home favourite Abgharad Evans and Kaylene Corbett of South Africa.
The 21-year-old had posted the sixth-fastest time in the semi-finals but put in a storming performance to take third in a time of 2:24.73.
Her time was enough to win bronze ahead of Australia's Ella Ramsay by 0.16 seconds.
McCartney is Commonwealth Youth Games in 2023 and European Under-23 gold medallist last year, but her bronze in Glasgow is a first senior international medal for the Enniskillen swimmer.

#mccartney #commonwealth #medal #Third

Jersey sprinter Jamie Oldham broke the island record for the 200m at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
Oldham - who also set a new Jersey 100m record on Tuesday - was the fastest of the island's trio of runners in Glasgow.
His time of 21.02 seconds lowered his island record of 21.21 he set earlier this year and was 0.19 seconds off a place in the semi-finals.
Oldham finished fourth in his heat, less than half a second off Botswana's heat winner Justice Oratile as he finished 26th-fastest.
"I had an outside lane, I wasn't too happy about that coming in as I wanted someone quick on my outside to chase," Oldham told BBC Radio Jersey.

#oldham #record #fastest

The 26-year-old became available after Feyenoord agreed to terminate his contract last week, prompting fresh speculation among Celtic supporters over whether the Scottish champions could revisit their previous interest.
Celtic explored a move for Stengs during the last transfer window before eventually turning their attention elsewhere, with Sebastian Tounekti arriving instead after the Dutchman opted for a switch to Italy.
His unexpected availability sparked renewed discussion over a potential move to Glasgow, but Stengs has instead chosen to return to familiar surroundings by rejoining the club where his professional career first took off.
The Eredivisie side unveiled the deal on Tuesday, confirming the attacker has signed a one-year contract with the option of extending it by a further 12 months.
Announcing the transfer, AZ wrote: "Every journey finds its way home".

#stengs #year

Northern Ireland's Kate O'Connor is three events away from a first Commonwealth Games gold medal as she leads the heptathlon after the opening four events in Glasgow.
In the absence of Katarina Johnson-Thompson, England's Jade O'Dowda is in second place, 55 points down on O'Connor, as rain hammered Scotstoun Stadium for the evening session.
Australia's Mia Scerri is a distant third but England's Niamh Emerson is in medal contention in fourth place.
The heptathlon concludes on Wednesday with the long jump, javelin and 800m.
O'Connor finished second in Birmingham in 2022 behind Johnson-Thompson, who pulled out of the Commonwealths on the eve of the Games, but is now in a strong position heading into the second day of competition.

#o 'connor #games #johnson #thompson

Team Wales swimmer Matt Richards claimed his first Commonwealth Games individual medal after winning silver in the 100m freestyle final.
It was his third medal in Glasgow after earlier claiming two bronze relay medals.
Flynn Southam won gold and his fellow Australian Kyle Chalmers earned bronze.
Olympic champion Richards will compete in the 200m freestyle on Wednesday.
Richards' medal was Wales' 10th official medal of the Games with the three silvers and six bronze bettered by the gold achieved by gymnast Ruby Evans earlier today.

#Gold

Aziz Abdul never met his grandfather. He was a military dictator and died in exile when little Aziz was a toddler. His name was Idi Amin.
Globally, he had another name. The Butcher of Uganda.
Amin took charge of his homeland in a coup in 1971 - becoming the country's third president - and ran a brutal regime for eight years. It's estimated half a million people were killed and the country's entire Asian population were expelled.
He married six times and fathered around 60 children. Or, rather, that's how many he acknowledged. Somewhere among all that, belongs Abdul.
This week, the 25-year-old is one of around 3,000 athletes in Glasgow. Just another face in a tracksuit, here for the Commonwealth Games. But not many others have the lineage that the super-heavyweight boxer does.

#around #many #butcher #asian

An Australian athlete passed a murder scene while on a Commonwealth Games training run in Glasgow.
Olli ***** witnessed the aftermath of a fatal knife attack, which happened in Burgher Street, in the east end of the city, about 15:00 on Friday.
Police Scotland said Paul McMinigal, 44, was discovered in a close and ***** ounced dead at the scene.
The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that Australian athletes have since been asked to train in small groups and not to run in nation's distinctive green and yellow team uniform.
However BBC Scotland News has been told this advice is standard protocol at championships and not a Glasgow-specific request.

#Scotland

Ewan McAteer finished seventh in men's vault final at the Glasgow International Arena.
McAteer, competing at his third Games, scored 12.700 for his first vault and 12.800 for his second.
That gave the 26-year-old a final average score of 12.750.
McAteer, who works part-time as a dentist, finished sixth in Birmingham four years ago.
The final was won by Canada's Felix Dolci, who also won gold in the men's team final and on the men's rings.

#ewan #arena #games

The coach of the Isle of Man Commonwealth Games swimming squad has praised his team's performances in Glasgow, after 38 personal bests were achieved and eight Manx records were broken in the first four days of competition.
Lee Holland told Manx radio that the showing had been "very exciting."
"The first four days have been amazing," he said.
"We've done way more statistically, than we would normally expect."
Among the standout performances have been those of the squad's debutants, including 14-year-old Oscar Maddrell, who finished third in his men's 800m freestyle heat.

#performances #first #isle #holland

Tatiana Tostevin broke her second Guernsey swimming record at the 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The 23-year-old, racing at her third Commonwealth Games, became the first Guernsey woman to break the 27-second mark in the 50m freestyle.
She clocked 26.95 seconds as she came third in her heat at Glasgow 2026 and 27th overall to add to her 50m backstroke record.
Fellow islander Tallulah-Mae Rautenbach finished one place behind her in the same heat and also broke the old island best as she swam 27.03 to end 29th.
Emma Bourgaize was first in her heat in a time of 27.50 and was 38th fastest.

#second #first

"For me this is very sentimental, it's about Wales, my people, my team and giving us all that one last little stab at something when it's a bit hard."
With two Commonwealth medals and an Olympic Games on the CV, Rosie Eccles would be forgiven for walking away from boxing after significant injury battles.
But this fighter doesn't do easy.
Having left the GB set up in March, Eccles is determined to complete her Commonwealth Games "trilogy" in Glasgow on a high as she targets a third medal.
The Caldicot light-middleweight, who turned 30 on the day she carried the Welsh flag at the opening ceremony in Glasgow, says she has "more fire than ever" as she aims to repeat her gold medal in Birmingham.

#medal #wales #march

Glasgow hosts a slimmed-down version of the Commonwealth Games as athletes from 74 nations and territories compete for gold in the Scottish city.
Glasgow stepped in after the Australian state of Victoria backed out three years ago due to the cost of hosting the Games.
The 10-sport programme, including six Para sports, will feature athletics, gymnastics, cycling and swimming - and will take place across four Glasgow venues.
The 11,000-spectator Scotstoun Stadium will stage the athletics as well as the biggest home star of the Games, new mile world record holder Josh Kerr.
The Games will be shown live across TNT Sports and HBO Max, rather than on the BBC or terrestrial television.

#across #para

Madeleine McCann’s younger brother Sean has earned a spot in the finals of the Commonwealth Games 400-metre freestyle.
McCann, 21, was cheered on by his parents Gerry and Kate and his twin sister Amelie as he finished fourth in the third of four qualifying heats in Glasgow.
His time of 3:52.64 was just fast enough to make the final on Saturday evening, in eighth position overall.
McCann and Amelie were just two years old when Madeleine, aged three, disappeared during a family holiday in Portugal in 2007.
Despite extensive searches and countless media appeals, she has never been found.

#amelie #sean