MK Dons have announced the signing of Will Collar, with the midfielder to join the club from Stockport.

The 28-year-old will arrive upon expiry of his Stockport County contract, with Collar signing a contract of undisclosed length at Stadium MK.

Collar moves after four and a half years at Stockport, having joined from Hamilton Academical in 2021.

The midfielder made over 170 appearances for Stockport, scoring 40 times in all competitions and helping the team from the Greater Manchester area to two promotions, with the team going from the National League to finishing in the League One play-offs over the course of his time at Edgeley Park.

The deal sees Collar become MK Dons’ fifth new signing of the summer, following the arrivals of Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, Rushian Hepburn-Murphy, Gethin Jones and Aaron Collins.

Speaking to the official MK Dons website, Collar said he was looking forward to taking part next season.

He said, “I’m really happy that it’s finally sorted, it’s been in the works for a while!
 
“I’m an attacking midfielder, I like to score goals, I like to create goals, and I’ll work hard for the team!”
 
“When I spoke to the manager, he outlined the project, it’s got a lot of potential! We want to win lots of games and I’m looking forward to a challenging season.
 
“If you look at the owners and the players they’ve recruited in the last few weeks, it’s just really exciting!”

Dons boss Paul Warne added that he was looking forward to working with him.

He said, “Players like Will are hard to come by at this level. He’s obviously a fantastic footballer as I think anyone at Stockport County will tell you, but he’s also a strong character and has the chance to be a real leader for us in midfield.

“He scored goals in League One last season in a team that puts a lot of crosses into the box. He can arrive late and get his head on the ball which we’ll need.

“Having met with him I was really impressed, his understanding of his game is exceptional, he knows his strengths and where he wants to improve, and I’m sure we’ll be able to help him do just that.”

Daiki Hashioka has left Luton Town after the Japanese defender joined Czech side Slavia Prague.

The 26-year-old has moved to the reigning Czech champions for an undisclosed fee, with the decision seeing him be the second Luton first team player to leave this week after Carlton Morris joined Derby.

Hashioka leaves after a year and a half at Kenilworth Road, with the defender having joined Luton from Belgian team Sint-Truiden in January 2024 while the Hatters were in the Premier League.

In all, he made 28 appearances for the Hatters, although his last appearance came in February.

In a brief statement, Luton said, “Everyone at Kenilworth Road would like to thank Hashi for his service and wish him the best for his future career.”

Red Bull endured a miserable race at the Austrian Grand Prix as they scored no points.

Max Verstappen failed to finish after he was taken out by a first-lap crash, while Yuki Tsunoda finished 16th and 2 laps down on race winner Lando Norris.

The result meant that Red Bull failed to score points in a full Grand Prix race for the first time since 2022, with the team having a difficult race at the Red Bull Ring in the Red Bull parent company’s home race.

A pointless race means Verstappen loses ground in the Driver’s Championship race. The Dutchman and reigning four-time champion sits third but is now 46 points behind Norris and 61 points behind championship leader Oscar Piastri.

Team-mate Tsunoda sits 17th in the championship, having just 10 points so far in 2025 and is now on a run of four races in a row without points.

In the Constructor’s Championship, Red Bull remain 4th in the standings. They are now 47 points behind Mercedes, 48 behind Ferrari and 255 behind leaders McLaren.

On a sweltering hot day in the Austrian mountains, Red Bull had been hoping to improve after a sub-par qualifying. Verstappen had qualified 7th, with his second lap at the end of Q3 compromised by Pierre Gasly spinning his Alpine, while Tsunoda had been knocked out in Q1.

Verstappen’s day would however be over very quickly. Although he had got into turn 3 in 6th after gaining a position off the line, he was struck by Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s Mercedes, with the Italian rookie having attempted to avoid a collision with Liam Lawson only to instead hit Verstappen.

The collision damaged both cars and put them both out of the race before lap one had even finished. The failure to finish was Verstappen’s first DNF in 31 races, with his last having come in the Australian Grand Prix early last year.

Antonelli would later apologise to both Verstappen and his team for the incident. The stewards would later assign blame to the Italian, with Antonelli handed a 3-place grid drop penalty for the next race.

Tsunoda had remained on track after the opening exchanges, with the Japanese driver also managing to avoid censure after he was accused of forcing Lance Stroll off track.

The Japanese driver had been running in the top 10 early on and was fighting his way back after his first pit-stop. But on lap 31, he hit trouble. Tsunoda had tried to overtake Franco Colapinto in the Alpine, but struck the Argentine driver’s car, damaging his front wing in the process.

That lead to an immediate front-wing change being required, while Tsunoda was also given a ten second time penalty by the stewards for his misdemeanour.

Even more antics then broke out as Tsunoda and Colapinto were fighting into turn 3 in the final stages when the two were caught by Piastri. The Australian was even forced onto the grass by Colapinto, who was handed a time penalty.

Tsunoda was pitted again near the end, taking his penalty in the process. He was ultimately the last of the classified 16 finishers and the only one to finish two laps down on race winner Norris.

Red Bull will seek to bounce back next time out, when the Milton Keynes-based team head to Silverstone to compete in the British Grand Prix.

Northampton Town will be playing Southampton in the Carabao Cup First Round, while they will also have EFL Trophy group games against Walsall, Shrewsbury Town and Chelsea U21s.

A big day of EFL fixture announcements yesterday (26/06) saw fixtures for the new EFL Championship, League One and League Two seasons announced as well as the First Round draw for the Carabao Cup and the group stage draw for the Vertu Trophy.

The Cobblers’ entry into the Carabao Cup will see them welcome Southampton to Sixfields, with the tie taking place in the week beginning August 11th. A specific date will be announced in due course.

The match will be Northampton’s first competitive meeting with Southampton since 2009, when they played one another in the Second Round of the FA Cup.

Northampton last beat Southampton in a competitive match in 1964, when they recorded a 2-0 win in a match played in the equivalent of what is now the Championship.

Southampton will be playing in the Championship next season, having finished bottom of last season’s Premier League. The game will be one of the Saints’ first under new boss Will Still, after the former Lens manager was confirmed as Southampton manager in May.

Meanwhile, the EFL Trophy paired the Chelsea under-21 team into Northampton’s group.

A pre-draw the day before had seen Northampton allocated a group with two League Two sides, with the Cobblers facing Walsall and Shrewsbury Town in their Southern Section group.

Games in the competition will begin in September, with a specific sequence and dates to be announced in due course.