BBC
Manchester City are keen to add Brighton and Argentina midfielder Alexis Mac Allister, 24, to their squad in the summer. (Star)
Liverpool's pursuit of Borussia Dortmund and England midfielder Jude Bellingham will not be harmed by their struggles this season as Champions League qualification is not a deal-breaker for the 19-year-old. (CaughtOffside)
Inter Milan would want 70-75m euros (£62m-£66m) for 26-year-old Italy midfielder Nicolo Barella, who has been linked with Liverpool. (Calciomercato - in Italian)
Croatia midfielder Marcelo Brozovic could be sold by Inter Milan in the summer, with Barcelona, Chelsea and Real Madrid interested in the 30-year-old. (Gazzetta dello Sport - in Italian)
Paris St-Germain could let at least one of Argentina forward Lionel Messi, 35, France striker Kylian Mbappe, 24, and Brazil forward Neymar, 31, leave the club in the summer as the club looks to reduce its wage bill because of Uefa financial fair play. (Times - subscription required)
AC Milan and France striker Olivier Giroud is open to a move back to the Premier League with London sides West Ham, Fulham, Crystal Palace and Brentford all potential destinations for the 36-year-old. (Sun)
Arsenal have joined Manchester United in the race to sign Celta Vigo and Spain Under-21 midfielder Gabri Veiga, 20. (AS, via Sun)
Manchester United are plotting a move for Bayer Leverkusen's Dutch right-back Jeremie Frimpong, 22. (Football Insider)
Chelsea will allow 18-year-old Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos to join Vasco da Gama on loan after a proposed loan to Palmeiras collapsed. (Fabrizio Romano)
Everton, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Tottenham, West Ham and Wolves have all been monitoring Union Berlin's German midfielder Rani Khedira, 29. (90min)
Newcastle are considering a move for Bristol City's English midfielder Alex Scott, 19. (Sun)
Barcelona and Real Madrid have renewed their interest in Bayer Leverkusen and Germany attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz, with the 19-year-old recently returning to action after a long-term injury. (Fijaches - in Spanish)
Burnley want to keep 20-year-old Dutch right-back Ian Maatsen, who is currently on loan from Chelsea, at Turf Moor next season. (Sun)
Chelsea, Barcelona and Real Madrid are keeping close tabs on Inter Milan and Croatia midfielder Marcelo Brozovic, 30. (La Gazzetta dello Sport - in Italian)
Sunderland goalkeeper Anthony Patterson, 22, is in line for a call-up to Gareth Southgate's England squad for next month's Euro 2024 qualifiers. (Sun)
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DAILY STAR ON SUNDAY
Manchester City are hot on the heels of Brighton's World Cup winner Alexis Mac Allister.
Leeds United's sporting director Victor Orta burst into tears on Saturday afternoon as they won their first Premier League clash since November.
THE ATHLETIC
Avram Glazer is planning to attend Manchester United's Carabao Cup final against Newcastle United at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.
The owner of League One club Forest Green Rovers, Dale Vince, insists Sir Jim Ratcliffe and INEOS shouldn't be permitted to buy Manchester United.
Arthur Melo made his Liverpool injury return on Saturday to help his side's Under-21 team record a 7-1 win over Leicester City.
SUNDAY TIMES
The former president of Juventus Andrea Agnelli is continuing to fight for a European Super League despite being in football exile after resigning from the Italian giants because of financial irregularities at the Serie A club.
THE SUN ON SUNDAY
Olivier Giroud is open to a move back to the Premier League - at a London club.
Newcastle are considering a move for Bristol City youngster Alex Scott.
Mason Greenwood has held his first face-to-face meeting with Manchester United bosses since a rape charge against him was dropped.
Arsenal have reportedly joined Manchester United in the race to sign Celta Vigo youngster Gabri Veiga.
Sunderland keeper Anthony Patterson is in line for a call-up to Gareth Southgate's full England squad.
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Lionel Messi's close friend Sergio Aguero revealed that the World Cup winner may leave PSG this summer and return to Argentina.
Aaron Ramsey has insisted there is more to come from him in a Nice shirt but has remained tight-lipped about his future beyond the end of the season.
SCOTTISH SUN
Liam Fox has refused to discuss his Dundee United future after watching his side lose 4-0 to Ross County.
SUNDAY MAIL
Dedicated Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack gave supporters a feel-good update as he posed with a scarf from his hospital bed in America.
Guardian
Danny Ings’ quick-fire double sparks West Ham’s rout of Nottingham Forest
Sam Dalling at the London Stadium
On afternoons like these, seasons turn. Fifteen frantic second-half minutes and suddenly a weight lifts, the mood of a whole club changes.
Danny Ings at the three-minute double. Dreamland. David Moyes was still punching the air joyously when his captain, Declan Rice, added a sumptuous third.
Just like that a must-win game was won. West Ham move outside the Premier League’s bottom three – and two points behind Nottingham Forest in 13th. Thirty years since Bobby Moore’s passing was celebrated with a clean sheet.
“How long have I been waiting for that?” Moyes said after a huge sigh. “Look, I’m not coming in here with a bottle of champagne, thinking everything is hunky dory. But I’m thrilled that I’ve won 4-0 today. And I’m going to enjoy a glass of wine tonight and why not: I’ve had enough bad nights.”
Moyes is right to take the credit. The criticism he faced for his conservative setup against Tottenham last Sunday was stinging. Some of it was internal, with Rice suggesting that what was, essentially, an octet of blockers, left the forward-thinkers isolated.
But six days later a rebrand, and everything Moyes touched worked. Substitutions included: Michail Antonio added a headed late fourth with his first touch. The provider was Pablo Fornals who had arrived with him. Mutiny averted then, at least for now. “The important thing is that I’ve got incredible backing,” Moyes said. “There’s been a lot of [outside] noise but behind the scenes there has been no noise.”
The win brought up Moyes’s 250th in the division, putting him in the illustrious company of Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger. “Not bad,” he noted, grinning. “They’re all important. If you don’t win your first, you might not get your second. If you don’t win your 250th, you might not get your 251st.”
Strangely, for what must have seemed aeons, it felt like an afternoon of frustration. As Keylor Navas clawed away corner after corner, locals exchanged worried glances.
Lucas Paquetá tried his utmost. Moyes tried harder still, shifting between the holy triptych of hand positions; arms-folded; eagle-wings; wild-clapping. All while pushing the boundaries of what is a very generous technical area.
True, Navas had to watchfully tip Jarrod Bowen’s inswinger over, with the subsequent corner eventually pinging first off Felipe and then the post. And Ings, on his full debut, should have opened the scoring later in the half. Instead, he made a hash of a header before throwing an accusing glance at Tomas Soucek for running in his line of sight. “I thought my goodness, is this going to be another day we’re not going to score a goal,” Moyes admitted.
When the interval came there was a ripple of boos. But most barely bothered. It took Bowen to hit the post’s base for the ground to stir. It flattened again when Lukasz Fabianski and Felipe collided. It was nothing vicious but the former was dazed and forcibly removed.
Had Forest ridden the wave? Categorically, no. Ings started the move for the first with a raking pass to Bowen. And while his teammate weaved into the area, Ings galloped forward.
Soon after poking home, Ings bundled in Saïd Benrahma’s centre. “Those are the goals we want to see from centre-forwards sometimes,” Moyes added of Ings. “We needed somebody who knows the art.”
Danny Ings scores his second goal of the match from close range against Nottingham Forest. Photograph: Michael Zemanek/Shutterstock
Already crestfallen, Nottingham Forest could barely believe it when first Rice and then Antonio added gloss. It was a surreal afternoon for them and Steve Cooper.
Michail Antonio heads West Ham’s fourth goal. Photograph: Michael Zemanek/Shutterstock
For a long time they defended resolutely, Navas even daring to catch a corner. But then it unravelled. Spectacularly.
They will regret a lack of intent when there was a wound to be pushed at. “You could feel the tension in the stadium,” Cooper said. “We talked about that and were trying to get it to turn into our favour.”
But while they grew into the game, they struggled to create. Felipe’s early header from a Jonjo Shelvey free-kick required Fabianksi’s hand, while Harry Toffolo tested Alphonse Areola in injury-time. There was little else of note.
Cooper definitely minded this performance, and though they are 13th in the table they are only four points clear of the bottom three. “What happened between the first and the third goal is difficult to comprehend,” he admitted. “It’s unacceptable in so many ways. We blame no one but ourselves.”
MATCH FACTS AND PLAYER RATINGS (Mail)
West Ham (4-3-3): Fabianski 6 (Areola 69, 6); Johnson 7, Ogbonna 6.5, Aguerd 6, Coufal 6 (Cresswell 45, 6); Soucek 6.5, Rice 8, Paqueta 7.5 (Lanzini 83, 6.5); Benrahma 7.5 (Fornals 83, 6), Bowen 7; Ings 8 (Antonio 84, 7)
Subs not used: Scamacca, Downes, Kehrer, EmersonGoals: Ings 70, 73, Rice 78, Antonio 85
Yellow: None Red: None Manager: David Moyes 7
Nottingham Forest (4-3-2-1): Navas 6.5; Williams 5.5, Worrall 5, Felipe 6, Lodi 5.5 (Toffolo 77, 5.5); Freuler 5, Shelvey 5 (Ayew 67, 6), Colback 5; Gibbs-White 5, Johnson 5 (Surridge 86); Wood 4 (Lingard 77, 5)
Subs not used: Hennessey, Mangala, Lingard, Toffolo, Surridge, Dennis, Danilo, Scarpa, Ayew
Goals: None Yellow: None Red: None Manager: Steve Cooper 5
Referee: Jarred Gillett 6
Telegraph
Danny Ings sparks 15-minute flurry that could save West Ham's season
Nottingham Forest collapsed after the 70th minute and hosts took full advantage with four late goals
By John Aizlewood at the London Stadium
Danny Ings' first goals for West Ham inspired a late surge to break Forest's resistance Credit: Reuters/Tony O'Brien
For 70 minutes Nottingham Forest held off relegation-haunted West Ham United with a mixture of competence and calmness. Slowly, by almost imperceptible osmosis, the London Stadium drifted into sullen silence and West Ham manager David Moyes’s gamble of giving Danny Ings a first start despite fitness concerns seemed to be misfiring. Fifteen season-changing minutes later, West Ham were four goals to the good, two of them scored by Ings and the rather surprised stadium turned gleefully raucous. As James Callaghan didn’t actually say: “crises; what crisis?’.
With the vultures beginning to circulate and West Ham kicking off in the relegation spots with one league victory since October, Moyes not only introduced Ings, but tinkered with his formation, switching to a back four, deploying Tomas Soucek in a more offensive role and handing increased midfield responsibility to Lucas Paqueta.
For those 70 minutes it didn’t look like it was going to be Ings’s day any more than his team’s. In the first half, against the uncompromising yellow wall that was Joe Worrall and Felipe, Ings toiled manfully . He was unfortunate when Keylor Navas flapped at a Declan Rice corner and Paqueta – thriving on that responsibility - drove low across goal. Ings flicked the ball into Felipe’s path and the ball cannoned to safety off the post. Yet Ings was the very acme of rustiness shortly afterwards when an enticing Vladimir Coufal cross ended with Ings’s attempted header seeming to come off his face.
No matter. Redemption came in the 70th minute and it came again three minutes later. First, Ings began the opening goal’s move himself when he sprayed a fine cross-field pass to Jarrod Bowen, who hurtled down the right and crossed low. Worrall lost his bearings. Ings stretched out a leg to meet a ball that seemed to be going behind him, guided it past Navas.
Then, the Forest citadel was stormed, Paqueta had far too much muscle and nous for Neco Williams. He set Said Benrahma free and another low cross was bundled home by the predatorial Ings, who received a standing ovation when he was replaced by Michael Antonio with six minutes remaining.
“Danny is someone who knows the art of attacking,” said Moyes who became the third manager after Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger to achieve 250 Premier League victories. “He makes runs where he should and his link-up play was good. I was surprised when he missed the first half chance, but look at how he got across the defender for first. Both his goals were proper centre forward goals rather than a great finish or getting room in the box. That what you want from centre forwards.”
The rout that few saw coming, West Ham’s biggest league victory since a trip to Carrow Road last May, was complete when Declan Rice imperiously gambolled forwards, played a cute one-two with Benrahma and curled his first league goal at the London Stadium since May 2021 past the shell-shocked Navas.
Declan Rice added gloss to the scoreline with a superb strike from range Credit: Reuters/Tony O'Brien
Soon it was four goals in 15 giddy minutes when exquisite link play between two substitutes Aaron Cresswell and Pablo Fornals ended with the latter dinking a cross to the back post. A third substitute, Antonio, nodded in to complete what had turned out to be a glorious day.
If Ings had achieved redemption, so too had Moyes. His team had the best of the first half, had seen Coufal and Lukasz Fabianski forced off with injury and hit the post a second time when Bowen beat Navas with a daisy cutter, but Forest were beginning to impose themselves when the deluge hit.
“I’m not coming here with champagne and saying everything’s hunky dory,” he insisted. “But I’m thrilled. I’m going to have wine tonight. Why should I not? We’ve had bad days recently. I know there’ s been a lot of noise outside the club, but there’s been nothing inside: I’ve had incredible backing. To stay in a job, a manager needs good owners. I had it at Preston and Everton and it’s the same here.”
For Forest this was a troubling afternoon. They are still in danger of failing to eclipse the seven away goals Norwich City scored in 2019-20 – the fewest in Premier League history – and for all their doughty defending for 70 minutes, their abject collapse was as troubling as it was hard to predict.
“I cannot comprehend what happened,” sighed Steve Cooper, the Forest head coach. “We were never in danger of conceding and you could feel the tension growing in the stadium. It sounds a little bit silly in light of what happened, but things looked about to go in our favour before the first goal. What happened after it was completely unacceptable, but we have nobody to blame but ourselves. We need to get back to the training ground and have a grown-up conversation about this.”
