In the Title Race . I think the top four or left in the Title Race . I think the top four or left to in the Title Race . I think the top four or left to battle in the Title Race . I think the top four or left to battle it in the Title Race . I think the top four or left to battle it out. Four or left to battle it out. Lukakuis four or left to battle it out. Lukaku is missing part that chelsea a mess for a while as the Goal Scorer at number nine. If lukaku comes in as we expect they will be serious contenders with Thomas Tuchel in charge as well. Exciting times for chelsea and we see how they get on in the Super Cup this evening against villarreal with commentary on five life from eight P M. Thank you. The Premier League Season starts this friday with newly promoted brentford taking on arsenal. The Champions Manchester City travel to spurs on sunday. City hosted a Launch Event for the league today. The Premier Leagues chief executive Richard Masters was there and spoke to our football reporter Simon Stone about the booming Transfer Window this summer. Clung to diminish their own finances was of that to exist within you with the rules and our own. That to spend but they have to balance their books at The End of it and there is still at The End of it and there is still a few days to go in the window. So clubs have always invested in the street to their squads and that is good. The Premier League is so competitive and if you are not investing youre probably standing still or going backwards. We have to wait and see but i dont think its creating any different dynamic in the Premier League. I expect the season to be properly competitive and there are a Chasing Pack of clubs want to get into the European Places and we know the difference that can make to your finances and your overall future. The Premier League is the most competitive league in europe. We want to have it stay that way and i believe it still is. Lets just stay with manchester city, because also speaking at that Premier League launch was the city forward phil foden. Hell miss the first few weeks of the season with a foot injury. Hes looking forward to playing with new Signing Jack Grealish as city look to complete back to back titles. Being from your link champions is going being from your link champions is going to being from your link champions is going to be even harder to repeat that this going to be even harder to repeat that this year. Every team is going to be that this year. Every team is going to be trying that this year. Every team is going to be trying as hard as they can to beat to be trying as hard as they can to beat us to be trying as hard as they can to beat us and to be trying as hard as they can to beat us and we know that we have to be our beat us and we know that we have to be our best beat us and we know that we have to be our best in every game and that is the be our best in every game and that is the standard we have set. We want to repeat is the standard we have set. We want to repeat last season and try and when to repeat last season and try and when the to repeat last season and try and when the lake. Its really nice to have when the lake. Its really nice to have it when the lake. Its really nice to have it at when the lake. Its really nice to have it at man city. When we got an england. Have it at man city. When we got an england. We have it at man city. When we got an england, we got along so well and i khow england, we got along so well and i know how england, we got along so well and i know how much of a great Player Jackie is know how much of a great Player Jackie is and what he will bring to the Team Jackie is and what he will bring to the team so i can look forward to getting back on the page and hopefully we can play together. Optimism for city, but the scottish champions rangers are in a bad place. Its been a shaky start to their title defence, and the Manager Steven Gerrard says Fear And Panic set in Last Night at ibrox as they were knocked out of Champions League qualifying, beaten 2 1 by ten Man Malmo for a Li 2 defeat on aggregate and they drop into a Europa League play off. Heres the former Rangers Player alex rae. Real disappoint because finances play a factor as well. They have to go away and have to try and get into the Republic Thursday and they have made a few quid on the back of that of the last couple of years but they also have a chance to go to kazakhstan or armenian which is a help of a lot of travel before the games and they have those games in a couple of weeks as well. So you have to regroup and come out and achieve goals and not concede like they are the moment but they have to get off and running. The game friday takes on a new significance. Everyone want to play in the team is league and we know is estimate between 30 and £40 million are at stake and they have to refocus because the winners of the league this year will automatically go into that Group Stage which will give them that kind of money. Still to come on sportsday. Golden memories from Tokyo Charlotte Worthington joins us with her medal and her bmx. Stuart broad is out of the rest of the Test Series against india. He tore a Calf Muscle in training yesterday. James anderson is also struggling for tomorrows second test with a thigh strain. Our Sports Correspondent Joe Wilson is at lords. Look, an England Bowler Training at lords. He at least looks fit and ready. Bigger images everywhere of the all time greats but as the Practice Day Pass without Stuart Broad and without James Anderson began to picture a Test Match without them. Its a weird thing to imagine. Can england coat . Thea;t without them. Its a weird thing to imagine. Can england coat . They can coe, es imagine. Can england coat . They can cape. Yes was imagine. Can england coat . They can cape. Yes was a imagine. Can england coat . They can cope, yes was a but imagine. Can england coat . They can cope, yes was a but also imagine. Can england coat . They can cope, yes was a but also the imagine. Can england coat . They can cope, yes was a but also the Reason L cope, yes was a but also the reason we cannot cope. Weve had people send it previously within the Bowling Group and the Batting Group and we saw when we were dealt cards during the one day side, that whole new team that came together and the performance they put in. So, looking for those are potentials we dont know is going to be happening tomorrow but with that comes opportunity and the for someone to come in, to be playing a Test Match at lords to my back with full crowds at lords as well against india, that is an exciting Prospect And Opportunity for those individuals that are going to do that. 50 individuals that are going to do that,. , individuals that are going to do that. , ,. , that. So what else is there for encland that. So what else is there for england to that. So what else is there for england to worry that. So what else is there for england to worry about that. So what else is there for england to worry about apartl that. So what else is there for england to worry about apart from the bowling . How about the batting . In the first test they won the toss, batted first and may 23. Serious concerns remain over the teens collective ability to score big totals and concerns not shared by jonny bairstow, who urges us to keep things in context. If jonny bairstow, who urges us to keep things in context. Things in context. If you look at over the last things in context. If you look at over the last four things in context. If you look at over the last four years things in context. If you look at over the last four years in things in context. If you look at over the last four years in england, the average scores throughout potentially not making the 500 and 400 and everything that has consistently due to conditions, thats notjust the england side. Look at overseas teams that have come here and the average course they have made. They are not far off what the average scores are. So i dont think you can question the ability and the desire and the want for the guys to go out there to Score Runs. 50 for the guys to go out there to Score Runs for the guys to go out there to Score Runs. ,. , �. , Score Runs. So no Stuart Broad for the Series Score runs. So no Stuart Broad for the Series And Score runs. So no Stuart Broad for the Series And Balance Score Runs. So no Stuart Broad for the Series And Balance required i Score Runs. So no Stuart Broad for the Series And Balance required inj the Series And Balance required in the Series And Balance required in the team and first innings residential. The captain has cope with everything so far but evenjoe ruths hands can be too full. Joe wilson, bbc news, lords. Theres another hundred double header today. Southern brave taking On Welsh fire at the Ageas Bowl in southampton. Southern brave women are guaranteed a place in the final after beating fire by 39 runs. Brave batted first and made a tournament high 166 3. Smitri Mandhana Top scored with 78. Fire didnt really come close, reaching 127 4. Brave are now five points clear at the Top And Cant be caught, so will be in the lords final. Over the last few days, weve been lucky enough to catch up with a few of team gb� s olympic stars. Today, Charlotte Worthington came to visit us. The Bmx Freestyle Gold medallist joined my Colleague Chetan Pathak to look back at her winning ride in tokyo. Im joined by freestyle Gold Champion with her bmx Charlotte Worthington. Thank you forjoining us. How does it feel to be on Olympic Champion . Im us. How does it feel to be on Olympic Champion . Us. How does it feel to be on Olympic Champion . Im still on Cloud Nine to be honest. Olympic champion . Im still on Cloud Nine to be honest. I Olympic Champion . Im still on Cloud Nine to be honest. I keep Olympic Champion . Im still on Cloud Nine to be honest. I keep having nine to be honest. 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Some of the changes around funding in bmx, but was it like for you this journey to gold . Was it like for you this Ourney To Old . ~ ,. � ~ was it like for you this Ourney To Iold . � ~ ,. , gold . Well, i started bmx before the Liids Gold . Well, i started bmx before the Li Ids was gold . Well, i started bmx before the lipids was announced gold . Well, i started bmx before the lipids was announced that gold . Well, i started bmx before the lipids was announced that It Gold . Well, i started bmx before the lipids was announced that it was lipids was announced that it was going to be in there so it was a hobby anyway. And bmx although very accessible but the high End Stuff is not supercheap. I was funding my own travel to skate parks and concerts at that point. But when i got the the opportunity to go ahead with it, yeah, i grabbed it with both hands and took the funding. Yeah, i grabbed it with both hands and took the funding. Thank you so much forjoining and took the funding. Thank you so much forjoining us and took the funding. Thank you so much forjoining us with and took the funding. Thank you so much forjoining us with your and took the funding. Thank you so much forjoining us with your bmxl much forjoining us with your bmx on sports day. We wish you all the best for the future. Charlotte worthington there, the Bmx Freestyle Gold metal champion. Heres a reminder of our top story The First Day at psg for lionel messi. He says, my dream is to win another Champions League, and i think i am in the ideal place to have that chance and to do it. Lots more reaction to his transfer on the Bbc Sport website. Dont forget you can follow the uefa Super Cup on there as well. Kick off 8pm in belfast. Thomas Tuchel Man in the same team that played at spurs in a friendly a few days ago. Tammy abraham on the bench, so not being wrist as Stephen Warnock told us. Thats all from sportsday. Well have more throughout the evening. Goodbye for now. Hello there. Not that much in the way of settled Summer Sunshine for many as we go through thursday, as another area of low pressure really starts to dominate the story. And to the south of that low, well see plenty of isobars, the winds picking up, gusts in excess of 40 mph, showery outbreaks of rain to come as well. Weak Weather Front will be sitting across the south to begin with. It drifts its way steadily northwards, allowing for some sunshine into south east england. Clouding over, though, from the west as we go through the day as that front brings some showers into northern ireland, Western Scotland as well. Here, temperatures subdued, 16 19 degrees, but in the sunnier spots in the south east, we might see highs of 24 degrees. That low pressure is still sitting there, slowly drifting its way steadily eastwards. Thats going to continue to enhance some blustery showers into the far north and west. Further south is where were likely to see the best of the sunshine as we head towards the weekend. Hello, im nuala mcgovern. And this is outside source. The head of Afghanistans Army has been sacked, as the taliban continue to make rapid gains across the country. The bbc has gained rare access to local taliban commanders and fighters in recently captured areas. How can you justify all this fighting when it is causing the deaths of thousands of ordinary afghans, thousands of ordinary muslims . Translation ~. , muslims . Translation . , translation will, of course, when there is fighting. Translation will, of course, when there is fighting, People Translation will, of course, when there is fighting, people die. Translation will, of course, when there is fighting, people die. We there is fighting, people die. We are doing our best to not harm civilians. Fleeing the Fighting Thousands have arrived in Afghanistans Capital Kabul in the past few days,