PSG face tough Champions League start with Anfield encounter 

Happy Champions League day!

The fake anthem, the po-faced players and the chance to suffer humiliation both at home league and abroad. 

It's happy faces across the world as the Champions League is back, back, back with Real Madrid trying to win a fourth tournament in a row and a host of big-hitters looking to the tournament as a must-win - stand up Manchester City, Juventus, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and PSG. 

And it's to PSG we turn with the big-spending French club trying once again to become a fully-fledged big 'fromage' with a run to the Champions League final, a mission that befits a team with Kylian Mbappe and Neymar in it. 

However, PSG has been handed a group of spook with Napoli and Liverpool also involved. The journey starts today in the hardest way possible with a clash in Anfield at 3PM ET / 12AM PT against a Liverpool side that has won five from five in the Premier League and is still on a giddy high from reaching the Champions League final last season. 

"You can never be comfortable at Anfield," warned PSG boss, Thomas Tuchel, whose visiting team might be boosted by the absence of the struggling Roberto Firmino, who is a doubt for today's Champions League clash. 

Barcelona facing PSV in Champions League fire-fight

Elsewhere in the Champions League today and Barcelona might be preparing for a comfy-looking Camp Nou night against Dutch visitors, PSV. 

However, the Eredivisie outfit has gotten off to a flying start with five wins from five back home but our Thomas Rongen predicts that PSV will try to bring a total football game to the Camp Nou...and it will not go well. 

Inter host Tottenham in a Champions League clash between two sides suffering a bit of a 'meh' start to the league season. The same can be said for Monaco and Atletico Madrid who are far from where they would like to be in their respective league tables. 

The too-cool-for-school craft beer pick? Probably Club Brugge against Borussia Dortmund. 

Catch the best of the Champions League action on the XTRA at 7PM ET / 4PM PT.

FIFA stands firm against La Liga move to Miami 

Plans to bring a fully-fledged, alive-and-kicking and still icky from birth juice La Liga game to the United States have hit another wrinkle. 

La Liga is attempting to play a league game between Girona and Barcelona in January in Miami but is now face disgruntlement from FIFA with the organization's president, Gianni Infantino, opining that "you play a 'home' game at 'home', not in a foreign country."

While FIFA itself cannot stop the event, La Liga requires permission from UEFA, CONCACAF and also US Soccer - as well as the go-ahead from the Spanish football federation, which is still pending. 

La Liga's president, Javier Tebas, has responded to Infantino through the medium of a tweet to point out that MLS soccer games are played in Canada. 

That is indeed true, but a completely different example, considering that those teams are already part of a league that is...oh Sports Burst is giving up on this one. 

Tune into the XTRA at 7PM ET / 4PM PT for more reaction from Javier Tebas on today's breaking news.

Milan's new main man and not enough Sterling silver at City 

Grown-up, suit-wearing TRANSFER TRACKER!

After a decade running Arsenal - successfully off the pitch, not so hot on it - Ivan Gazidis has left the Emirates to become the new CEO of Milan. The news was confirmed by Arsenal on Tuesday as the Serie A side attempts another reboot. 

In infinitely more exciting news, Raheem Sterling is set to become hot transfer property next summer, when the English forward will have just the one year left on his contract. Manchester City is certainly trying to renew that deal but there is a reported impasse over the thorny issue of wages.