Football’s governing politics and business both shifted today. At FIFA, Arsène Wenger backed the retreat from Gianni Infantino’s controversial World Cup private investment plan, calling the reversal the only sensible response after a week of backlash and underlining the pressure now facing the leadership. In the club game, Barcelona sent Marc-André ter Stegen to Ajax on loan, offering the Dutch side an elite but injury-hit goalkeeper, while Manchester United landed a lucrative new training kit sponsorship with Betway in what is being billed as a record deal for that space. Away from the pitch, sport also sits against a darker backdrop: a 14-year-old boy died after entering the Thames in east London during hot weather, renewing warnings about open-water swimming, while wider headlines were dominated by reports that the U.S. Army has nearly exhausted key long-range missile stocks in the Iran war.