Fixtures day and transfer gossip give women's football shows plenty to chew on

This week's haul is dominated by men's club channels — PSG's training-ground skits, Bayern's Tegernsee friendlies, UEFA's archive clips — none of which touch the women's game, so they're skipped rather than reviewed here. What's left is a smaller but more useful set: two uploads from The Women's Football Chat built around the WSL calendar and transfer market, a training-ground access piece from London City Lionesses, and a NWSL podcast doing the unglamorous work of a mid-season standings check.

The pick of the week is The Women's Football Chat's live coverage of the WSL fixtures release, published as the season's 26/27 calendar dropped. It's the kind of appointment content that rewards being there live — reaction to opening-day pairings as they're announced — and it sits well alongside the channel's tactical breakdown of Liverpool's summer business, which walks through how Vivien Endemann, Mao Itamura, Sara Agrež and Khiara Keating might slot into Gareth Taylor's system, right down to a stated shift toward a 3-2-5 shape in possession. Anyone trying to get a read on Liverpool's season before it starts should watch the tactics video first; the fixtures livestream is better consumed live or skimmed for the headline dates rather than watched start to finish.

The same channel's transfer show is useful for a different reason: it's a tracker, not an argument. It runs through Kerolin's move to Barcelona, Nelly Las joining Chelsea, Salma Paralluelo's switch to OL Lyonnes, and a claim about why Holly McNamara could matter for Everton's season — worth a watch if you've lost track of the window, less so if you want analysis of what any single deal means.

London City Lionesses' mic'd-up training feature with Mary Earps is the smallest item here but the most distinctive. Access content lives or dies on whether it shows you something you couldn't get from a highlights reel, and putting a microphone on a goalkeeper during a session is a decent way to do that — it's a goalkeeper's-eye view of training rather than another talking-head recap.

On podcasts, Attacking Third closes out its summer check-in series by working through the top half of the NWSL table, with particular attention to Gotham FC following Esther González's departure and Emily Sonnett's injury, before turning to a WAFCON recap of NWSL players performing at the tournament. It's a solid utility listen for keeping pace with the league rather than a must-hear episode, but the structure — club-by-club, then a weekend preview — makes it easy to dip into the sections that matter to you.

Nothing else in this week's batch clears the bar for a female-game recommendation: the PSG and Bayern uploads are men's pre-season content, and UEFA's clips are historical men's Champions League highlights. Readers wanting more from the women's beat this week are better served going straight to the four picks above.