Arsenal completed the deal for Bruno Guimaraes this week: seventy-five million pounds, more than Newcastle's own accounts said they needed to sell for.

The sport also lost a player this week. Brandon Clarke, the Memphis forward who tore his Achilles in April and was grinding through the rehab everyone assumed he'd finish, died on Saturday, aged 29. The NBA confirmed it without a cause. He was a rotation piece, not a superstar, the kind of player franchises build depth charts around rather than marketing campaigns.

Everything else this week was business as usual. Aaron McKenna picked up a vacant IBF middleweight belt on a Saturday card most of the sport will forget by Tuesday. The Mavericks are floating a bounty on Cooper Flagg's own rookie card, a franchise essentially betting on its own merchandise before the player has played a full season, which is either confidence or a hedge fund with a mascot. Dallas also lost an assistant coach to Orlando and is fielding calls on P.J. Washington from the Lakers, the usual roster churn that fills August.