Before the World Cup had even ended, it seemed only a matter of time before Manchester United signed French defensive midfielder Kone. They had reached an agreement with the player and were about to submit a bid to his club Roma. However, suddenly everything fell silent, as if the rumors about Kone had never surfaced.

On August 7, Beijing time, Kevin Brock, head coach of Bayer Leverkusen's U17 team, highly praised Zhao Songyuan, the star of China's U17 national team, during an interview, stating that he would still be very competitive if he played in Europe. Kevin Brock said, "I don't know his name, but the No. 4 player of the Chinese team left a deep impression on me. He has outstanding awareness, comprehensive skills, and plays with great flair.

On August 7th Beijing time, a highly anticipated match in the WTA1000 Toronto women's singles Round of 32 just concluded. The 37-year-old Chinese veteran Zhang Shuai failed to pull off a miracle, losing 0-2 to world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka, thus missing the Round of 16.

In the third split of LCK, only into the second week, one team has already been eliminated from the playoffs. DNS lost to KRX, resulting in a 2-19 record. Even if they win all four remaining games, they can only tie with NS, the fourth-place team in the group, but cannot overtake them in tiebreaker scores. Thus, DNS is eliminated five games early. The world runner-up duo Deokdam and Peter have fallen off this year, unable to even beat Aming.

The LPL Summer Split group stage, first round robin, is about to conclude. On the previous match day, in the Summit group, TT defeated LGD to secure their second win of the split. Meanwhile, AL suffered an upset when facing WE, getting swept 2-0. Although both teams are in the top four, AL was considered slightly stronger than WE. Unexpectedly, AL lost, and this BO3 was quite absurd. AL had a lead of over 9k gold in the second game but still got overturned.

South Korean football is confronting one of its most serious scandals in years, after local media revealed that the Korea Football Association (KFA) was recorded spending money on entertainment activities, including sexual services, involving some international referees.

VPF officially raises the prize money for the V.League 2026/2027 champion to 5 billion VND, the highest ever.

India is considering withdrawing from the FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026 or sending only a youth team, causing significant turmoil for the tournament.

Breaking Vietnamese football news on August 7: The Vietnam national team is understaffed; an overseas Vietnamese footballer has joined Xuan Thien Phu Tho.

Cambodian football has not yet achieved success in the region, but at this point, it is still following the right development path and deserves to be taken seriously by many football nations in the region.