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Crystal Palace vs. Wolves: How to watch friendly, TV channel, live stream

The Premier League visits Annapolis, Md. as Crystal Palace takes on Wolves in a summer friendly

Crystal Palace will take on familiar opposition in a Wednesday summer friendly, with Wolves the opposition for a preseason match at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium in Annapolis, Md.

Palace, featuring U.S. men’s national team defender Chris Richards, have played two preseason matches since beginning preparations for the 2024-25 Premier League season.

A 1-1 draw with Charlton Athletic wasn’t ideal, and while a 6-3 win over League One side Crawley Town was plenty of fun, shipping three goals to a third-tier opponent underlines an area to improve.

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Wolves, meanwhile, opened its U.S. tour on Saturday with a 3-1 win over West Ham in Jacksonville.

Young winger Rodrigo Gomes, having joined in a €15 million transfer from Braga, will be one to watch for fans of Gary O’Neil’s side.

Here is everything you need to know ahead of the game.

Crystal Palace vs. Wolves (friendly)

When: Wednesday, July 31
Where: Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Md.)
Time: 8 p.m. ET
Channel/streaming: beIN Sports, Fubo (WATCH LIVE)

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Stateside Cup 2024: Schedule, tickets, stadiums and more

Wolves, Crystal Palace, and West Ham are coming to the United States this summer.

The list of Premier League clubs coming to the U.S. this summer continues to grow.

The latest competition to be announced is the 2024 Stateside Cup, a three-team preseason event that will feature Wolves, Crystal Palace, and West Ham.

With the Premier League trio confirmed for the event, half of the league’s 20 sides have booked travel plans for the United States ahead of the 2024-25 season.

That list includes most of the league’s biggest sides, including Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool.

The Stateside Cup will feature three matches, with two at NFL stadiums in Florida and one in Maryland at the home of the U.S. Naval Academy’s collegiate football team.

Below are the Stateside Cup fixtures for 2024, including information on where to buy tickets.

Stateside Cup 2024

July 27: Wolves vs. West Ham — EverBank Stadium, Jacksonville, FL. TICKETS.

July 31: Crystal Palace vs. Wolves — Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, Annapolis, MD

August 3: West Ham vs. Crystal Palace — Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, FL. TICKETS.

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Richards: Crystal Palace boss Glasner sees me as center back

The USMNT defender is happy to be back in his natural position after a spell at defensive midfield

Chris Richards is back playing his natural position, and he looks set to stay there for the foreseeable future.

Richards has played center back his entire career, but started in defensive midfield for a stretch of Premier League matches earlier in the season.

But under new Crystal Palace head coach Oliver Glasner, the U.S. international has returned to his natural position, starting four straight games at center back under the Austrian before suffering an injury last month.

Speaking to Palace’s website, Richards said he was happy to return to center back after being shifted around earlier in the season under Roy Hodgson.

“Centre of defense, preferably,” Richards said of his ideal position. “It was a lot of learning this year, playing right back, center back, center mid.

“[It was] a lot of positions that I’m not quite used to, but again, like I said, I’ll do whatever to be on the pitch and help us win. I think it’s been good to play in different positions because you learn a lot.

“We played against [Glasner’s] teams in Germany, so I think he remembers what my best position was.

“But coming in, we did have a small conversation, and he just kind of said that for the future he sees me playing center back. All the games I played for him have been at center back.”

Richards provides injury update

The USMNT defender has now missed three straight games with what he revealed to be a knee injury.

Speaking before last weekend’s match at Liverpool, the 24-year-old said he was targeting this Sunday’s game against West Ham for a potential return.

“I think frustrating would be a good word for it,” Richards said.

“I feel like I worked hard over the last two seasons that I’ve been here and I think I was finally reaping the benefit of that. It’s always nice playing games.

“I have a knee injury. Hopefully, what we’re aiming for is West Ham. I’m just kind of taking it day by day, hoping that it continues to heal and that’s what I’m aiming for, at least, is the West Ham game.”

Prior to his injury, Richards had gone the distance in 16 consecutive Premier League matches.

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Richards out 2-3 weeks with injury, Crystal Palace boss Glasner confirms

The USMNT defender had played 16 straight league matches before his injury

Chris Richards is set to miss between two and three weeks with an undisclosed injury, Crystal Palace manager Oliver Glasner has confirmed.

Richards suffered the injury in Palace’s 1-1 draw with Nottingham Forest last weekend, then missed his side’s midweek defeat to Bournemouth.

With the Eagles set to face Manchester City on Saturday and Liverpool next weekend, Glasner said at a press conference that the U.S. men’s national team defender would be out for both matches.

“We will look from day to day — one day it looks better and then the next day not so,” Glasner said.

“But I think he will miss at least the Liverpool game and then we will see. He will be out for two or three weeks.”

Prior to the Bournemouth game, Richards had gone the distance in 16 consecutive Premier League matches. After starting the season on the bench, the 24-year-old has become an ever-present for Palace — first playing as a defensive midfielder before shifting to his natural defensive position.

Richards also played the full match in both of the USMNT’s Nations League encounters last month, as Gregg Berhalter’s team beat Jamaica and Mexico to retain the title for the third straight tournament.

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Which Premier League teams are owned by Americans?

Half of the Premier League’s 20 teams are now under majority American ownership.

With the news of Everton’s takeover by U.S. private equity firm 777 Partners, the influence of American owners in the Premier League has never been higher.

When that deal goes through, it will mean that exactly half of the Premier League’s 20 teams are under American ownership. That includes four of the league’s biggest teams: Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool.

The English top flight has become an attractive investment for prospective owners as the league’s revenue from broadcast deals continues to skyrocket.

Here, we have listed all 10 Premier League clubs currently under American ownership. Some of the clubs include multiple owners/investors, so the American owners are italicized in those cases.

USMNT coach Berhalter hints Richards may soon leave Crystal Palace

Richards has recently been linked with a move back to the Bundesliga

U.S. men’s national team head coach Gregg Berhalter has hinted that Chris Richards could be set to leave Crystal Palace in the coming days.

Richards has established himself as a key player for the USMNT, but injuries and coaches’ decisions limited him to just 10 total appearances last season after an offseason transfer from Bayern Munich.

This season has been more of the same for the 23-year-old, who has yet to play in any league games for Palace and made his first appearance of 2023-24 in a Carabao Cup win over Plymouth on Tuesday.

After naming Richards to his September roster on Wednesday, Berhalter was asked in a media availability about his lack of minutes at the club level.

“That may change in the next couple of days, right? That’s not set in stone,” the coach said, with the transfer window set to close on Friday.

“We see him as an important piece to what we’re doing,” Berhalter continued. “I think he’s got a tremendous amount of potential. Now for him, it’s about getting minutes and staying healthy. He’s a great guy, great competitor, and looking forward to having him back in camp. His last camp went really well with the Nations League and scoring a goal (in the final against Canada).

“We think that he’ll make a big impact in this camp, but also excited to see what the future brings for him.”

Richards has been capped 10 times by the USMNT, and was forced to withdraw from contention for the World Cup squad last year due to a hamstring injury.

Earlier this month, Kicker reported that Stuttgart was interested in bringing Richards in on loan to help replace Konstantinos Mavropanos, who transferred to West Ham.

Joining Stuttgart would reunite Richards with Sebastian Hoeness, who coached Richards at Bayern Munich and during two loan spells at Hoffenheim. Hoeness was named Stuttgart coach in April 2023.

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Forbes ranks 20 most valuable soccer teams in the world

Valuations of the world’s biggest clubs are sky high

Who are the most valuable soccer teams in the world?

With success being more and more tied to an ability to spend, being a “big” club — at least in financial terms — is the clearest indicator of whether a given team is going to contend for trophies in the world’s top leagues.

That said, what defines value doesn’t necessarily require a team to be in the Premier League, La Liga, the Bundesliga, or Serie A. MLS has three teams in the top 20, including LAFC becoming the first club to break the $1 billion valuation barrier.

That said, Europe is still the home of the world’s biggest clubs, and its most valuable. In particular, eight of the top 20 hail from the Premier League, which will not be a particular surprise given the league’s global reach.

Here are Forbes’ 20 most valuable teams in global soccer.

Premier League home stretch: Where things stand as season enters its final month

Some teams are having a blast, while others are going through it

The Premier League is getting down to the nitty-gritty.

The end of the season is approaching, with most teams having five or six games left to secure a trophy, a spot in Europe, or just keep themselves in the top flight for another year.

For some teams, the end of the season was expected to be a pressure-cooker, but has instead been something of a celebration. For others, it’s one last chance to fight their way to safety, or at least salvage some pride in an otherwise disappointing season.

Here’s where everyone stands heading into the last month of the 2022-23 season.

Roy Hodgson’s wife doesn’t seem too broken up about his coaching return

“I think she was glad to see the back of me”

There were several considerations Roy Hodgson needed to make when deciding whether to come out of retirement at age 75.

One of the biggest was how his wife would feel about the whole thing. As it turns out, that doesn’t seem to have been too big of a hurdle.

Hodgson retired after coaching Watford for the second half of last season, only to be brought back by former club Crystal Palace earlier this month after Patrick Vieira was sacked.

Ahead of his first game in charge, Hodgson spoke to the media about his return to the game.

“I have accepted that I had retired, as it were, because that’s what everyone had been saying. When I walked down the street people would say to me, ‘Are you enjoying your retirement?'” he said.

“At the same time, I have never really felt old enough to retire, if the truth be known. I know what I am, I know my birth certificate tells me I am, but the way I feel doesn’t really tell me that.

“So I suppose there has always been an opening there for a project such as this one whereby I know very clearly what the project is, what the objective is, why I am there and what is expected of me.”

He then touched on the subject of his wife Sheila, who doesn’t seem to have been too broken up about him spending a bit more time outside of the house.

“As far as my wife was concerned she didn’t make too many complaints either. I think she was glad to see the back of me.”

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USMNT defender Chris Richards announces he’ll miss the World Cup

The Crystal Palace center back has not played since August due to a hamstring injury

Chris Richards will miss the World Cup due to a lingering hamstring injury, he announced on Instagram on Tuesday.

Richards has not played for Crystal Palace since August due to the injury, and hasn’t played for the U.S. national team since January.

Crystal Palace head coach Patrick Vieira said over the weekend that Richards had yet to resume team training, putting his status for the World Cup in serious doubt with just two weeks remaining until the USMNT’s first match.

On Tuesday, one day before the USMNT announces its World Cup roster, Richards confirmed himself that he will not be going to Qatar.

“Gutted that this injury has ruled me out of the World Cup but I know that the boys will go crazy regardless,” he said. “I’ll be rooting for y’all the whole way. Go out and make history.”

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USMNT center back options

Richards was almost certain to make the roster had he been healthy, and was a candidate to start next to Walker Zimmerman at central defense.

The 22-year-old joins Miles Robinson as World Cup roster locks who will be forced out of the tournament with injury. Robinson tore his Achilles in a game with Atlanta United in May.

His absence makes it more likely that either Aaron Long or Cameron Carter-Vickers will partner Zimmerman when the USMNT begins the World Cup on November 21 against Wales.

With Richards out another defensive roster spot will also open up, which could be filled by Fulham’s Tim Ream.

Ream hasn’t played for the USMNT since September 2021, but is in the midst of a stellar campaign in the Premier League. According to a report from the U.S. Fútbol Podcast, Ream has been selected for the World Cup squad in Richards’ place.

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