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BBC
Manchester United's 26-year-old England striker Marcus Rashford is on Paris St-Germain's shortlist to replace 25-year-old France forward Kylian Mbappe, who intends to leave the club at the end of the season. (Times - subscription required)
Real Madrid have reserved the number 10 shirt for Mbappe should he join from Paris St-Germain this summer. (Mundo Deportivo - in Spanish)
Club president Florentino Perez has told the Real Madrid players that Mbappe will be joining the Spanish side at the end of the season. (Footmercato - in French)
AC Milan will consider offers in excess of 100m euros (£85.5m) for 24-year-old Portugal forward Rafael Leao, who has also been linked with Paris St-Germain as Mbappe's replacement. (Gazzetta dello Sport - in Italian)
Manchester City hope that Real Madrid's move for Mbappe will make it easier to persuade 23-year-old Norway striker Erling Haaland to sign a new contract until 2029. (Mirror)
Chelsea are willing to trigger the £111m (130m euro) release clause to sign Napoli's 25-year-old Nigeria striker Victor Osimhen. (Rudy Galetti)
Manchester United are interested in Bayern Munich's 18-year-old France Under-21s striker Mathys Tel. (Sky Sports)
Newcastle and Aston Villa are leading the race for Arsenal's 23-year-old England attacking midfielder Emile Smith Rowe. (Football Insider)
Newcastle's sporting director Dan Ashworth, who has been approached by Manchester United, will attempt to bring in Chelsea chief analyst Kyle Macaulay if he moves to Old Trafford. (Sun)
Arsenal sent scouts to Red Bull Salzburg on Saturday to watch 19-year-old Israel midfielder Oscar Gloukh, who the Gunners are looking to sign in the summer. (Football Transfers)
Manager Oliver Glasner will take his first Crystal Palace training session on Tuesday after his appointment as Roy Hodgson's successor is confirmed. (Fabrizio Romano)
Bayer Leverkusen have been scouting Luton's 21-year-old English defender Teden Mengi. (Mirror)
Galatasaray are considering a move for Manchester United's 25-year-old Turkey goalkeeper Altay Bayindir, who has made just one appearance since joining from Fenerbahce last summer. (A Spor via Teamtalk)
West Ham are confident they can keep hold of technical director Tim Steidten despite interest from Liverpool. (Mirror)
Sky Paper Talk
SUNDAY MIRROR
Rafa Benitez has audaciously thrown his hat in the ring to replace Gareth Southgate as England manager.
Luis Suarez has confirmed he will end his career at Inter Miami, just weeks after completing his move to the Major League Soccer club.
Romelu Lukaku has been criticsed by former Italy international Angelo De Livio for 'ruining himself' having once been a 'force of nature'.
Liverpool star Ibrahima Konate insists "we all know" where Kylian Mbappe will end up this summer amid talk of a move to the Reds.
Dele Alli may have already played his last game for Everton - much to the frustration of his former club Tottenham. Spurs are due a payment of £10million once he clocks up 20 appearances for the Toffees.
MAIL ON SUNDAY
West Ham fans showed their fury at the manager by displaying a 'Moyes Out' banner in the away end at The City Ground following their 2-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest.
Barcelona have identified Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi as their leading candidate to become head coach at the Catalan giants, according to a new report.
Forgotten Manchester United man Altay Bayindir is reportedly Galatasaray's top goalkeeper target this summer.
Manchester City met with one of Kylian Mbappe's agents the day before he told PSG he wants to leave, according to reports in Spain.
SUNDAY TIMES
Paris Saint-Germain have included Marcus Rashford on a shortlist of potential replacements for Kylian Mbappé - who last week informed the French champions of his decision to leave this summer.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Zach Mercer sent an emphatic message to Steve Borthwick after his England selection snub with a man-of-the-match performance for Gloucester in their win over Exeter.
THE SUN ON SUNDAY
West Ham are keeping their dossier open on Middlesbrough midfielder Hayden Hackney.
Manchester United are ready to upset Chelsea with a move for chief analyst Kyle Macaulay.
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Manchester United defender Raphael Varane believes Willy Kambwala could be the next academy wonderkid to follow Kobbie Mainoo's steps and become a first-team regular.
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp confirmed that he substituted Darwin Nunez off at half-time against Brentford because the forward "felt something".
STAR ON SUNDAY
Nottingham Forest have hired former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg in a bid to get on the right side of key decisions.
Some German football supporters with a flare for anarchy brought Hansa Rostock's match with Hamburg to a standstill using remote-controlled cars.
Manchester City scouted Bundesliga starlets Florian Wirtz and Jamal Musiala in last weekend's big battle between Bayern Leverkusen and Bayern Munich.
SUNDAY RECORD
Kilmarnock boss Derek McInnes says his side's point at Parkhead was no smash-and-grab raid.
Guardian
Kalvin Phillips’ red card tops off bad day for David Moyes and West Ham at Forest
Peter Lansley at the City Ground
When even your own fans are chanting “You’re getting sacked in the morning” and “Boring, boring West Ham” then a crisis point appears to have been reached.
Kalvin Phillips was sent off as David Moyes’s hold on his job took another dent though the West Ham manager gave a measured defence afterwards. Six days after losing 6-0 at home to Arsenal, the West Ham manager’s gamble in placing faith in the England midfield player, on loan from Manchester City, is backfiring badly.
Moyes, whose contract expires in the summer, saw Phillips sent off for two bookable offences after Taiwo Awoniyi had opened the scoring for Nottingham Forest, who gained their first three-point return of the calendar year to move five points clear of the relegation zone. That goal came in the fifth minute of first-half added time and Callum Hudson-Odoi tapped home the clinching goal in the fifth minute of additional time at the end of the game.
Forest could have won by far more, however, if it had not been for Alphonse Areola in the West Ham goal. Nuno Espírito Santo’s team were everything West Ham were not: fast on the break, always looking to take the braver option, solid behind a vibrant and hungry front four and defending with pragmatism.
After Moyes equalled his worst run in charge of the club with eight winless games, last chalked up when he started his second stint at the helm in early 2020, the West Ham players went over to applaud the travelling supporters, some of whom held up banners saying “Moyes out” and “GSB out” referring to Vanessa Gold, David Sullivan and Karren Brady, the club’s owners.
Moyes has amassed credit in the bank at West Ham, who remain in the top half of the table, but this is balanced by the fans’ antipathy. Having won the Europa Conference League last season, their first major silverware in 43 years, before selling Declan Rice for £105m, they still have a Europa League last-16 tie to look forward to next month. Since their playmaker Lucas Paquetá was injured, however, a rot appears to have set in.
Moyes pointed out that victories over some of the Premier League’s leading lights that took West Ham to sixth place mean they have been doing something right. And if Newcastle, Manchester United and Arsenal can have bad spells, “there’s no divine right for West Ham not to have a dicky period”.
Moyes said: “We’re hurting really badly as a team because we’ve not had good results for five or six weeks. But this season we’ve beaten Tottenham, Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal. It’s not so long ago we were having good times. There have been things which have affected us, such as the Africa Nations Cup. Paquetá, we’re hugely missing him … and the natural balance he brings.
“If you are going to be a football manager who has managed 1,200 games, you are going to have tough periods.
“Let’s be fair, West Ham have had long periods of constant growth and this has been a season of growth overall too.
“I’m pretty long in the tooth and it’s hard to please everybody. Maybe they want something different, I don’t know. Maybe there have been managers who excited them more but the one sitting here wins more.”
Phillips tried to show leadership but when he caught Morgan Gibbs -White with a late tackle in the 71st minute, three minutes after being booked for a push on Nicolás Dominguez, West Ham’s day was done.
Areola was the main reason Forest did not win by a greater distance. The West Ham keeper made three superb interventions in the first half, from Anthony Elanga’s point blank-range effort, Gibbs-White and tackling Awoniyi, but these were topped by superb saves from wonderful second-half volleys by Elanga and Danilo.
Thankfully for Forest, Awoniyi scored in between. The Nigerian received Dominguez’s ball to feet, turned Nayef Aguerd and slipped home his sixth Premier League goal of the season.
Forest have appointed former Premier League official Mark Clattenburg as their referees’ analyst. His first task might be to explain why Thomas Bramall, the referee, did not award Forest a penalty in the 81st minute when Maxwel Cornet fouled Neco Williams. Nuno, cautioned for his response, said: “Everyone is asking themselves, like me, why? What I expect from Mark is to at least give me an explanation as to what is happening.”
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