• Saïd Benrahma permanently joins Lyon from West Ham
• Nottingham Forest sign Newcastle’s Elliot Anderson

Aston Villa have sanctioned the €50m (£42.4m) sale of Douglas Luiz to alleviate concerns about meeting the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability regulations (PSR).

The Brazil midfielder is the most high-profile departure from Villa Park this summer but the sales of Omari Kellyman and Tim Iroegbunam – both of whom are classed as homegrown – to Chelsea and Everton generated a further £30m before the league’s deadline for submitting annual accounts on Sunday.

PM again declines to say whether he told Craig Williams in advance about his decision to hold the election in July

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Rishi Sunak is returning to the campaign trail on Thursday, PA reports, after a two-day hiatus for the Emperor and Empress of Japan’s state visit and preparations for the final head-to-head debate with Sir Keir Starmer.

With one week to go until polling day, the deepening gambling scandal is still likely to feature heavily when he faces the media during a tour of the East Midlands and Yorkshire.

He is expected to visit a factory in Derbyshire and hold an evening campaign event in Leeds.

Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of using transgender issues “as a political football to divide people” during their head-to-head debate on Wednesday.