BBC
Germany midfielder Jamal Musiala has rejected a new deal at Bayern Munich as he targets a summer move to the Premier League, with Manchester City and Liverpool leading the race for the 21-year-old. (Star)
Manager Thomas Tuchel is likely to be sacked if Bayern Munich lose their Champions League last-16 second leg against Lazio on Tuesday. (Sky Sports Germany - in German)
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag is keeping tabs on Girona's 22-year-old Spanish defender Miguel Gutierrez before the summer transfer window. (Sun)
Liverpool have stepped up their interest in Sporting Lisbon head coach Ruben Amorim, but Bayer Leverkusen boss Xabi Alonso remains the frontrunner to replace Jurgen Klopp. (Mirror)
Barcelona's hopes of appointing Brighton boss Roberto de Zerbi in the summer have been complicated by the Seagulls' refusal to negotiate on the Italian's 15m euro (£12.8m) release clause. (Sport - in Spanish)
Barcelona side have held talks with former Germany boss Hansi Flick about succeeding manager Xavi. (Florian Plettenberg)
Paris St-Germain and France forward Kylian Mbappe has met with Luis Enrique to address tension stemming from the Spanish head coach substituting the 25-year-old in recent games. (ESPN)
Fulham, Everton, West Ham and Wolves are monitoring Galatasaray's 31-year-old Ivory Coast winger Wilfried Zaha. (Ekrem Konur)
Arsenal and Manchester City are competing to sign 19-year-old Fiorentina and Italy Under-21 full-back Michael Kayode. (Fichajes - in Spanish)
Barcelona will prioritise selling Brazil winger Raphinha, 27, and France defender Jules Kounde, 25, in the summer. (Sport - in Spanish)
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SUNDAY MIRROR
Liverpool are continuing to do their due diligence on Sporting Lisbon boss Ruben Amorim as part of their search for the right man to replace Jurgen Klopp in the summer.
Premier League clubs including Manchester City and Liverpool are on red alert after reports emerged that Jamal Musiala has turned down the offer of a new deal from Bayern Munich.
Jack Grealish will not rush back from his latest groin injury and has privately admitted his return against Luton Town in the FA Cup probably came two weeks too soon.
Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United all had scouts in attendance earlier in the week at Sporting Lisbon, with former Coventry striker Viktor Gyokeres the main attraction.
Leading sports agent Jonathan Barnett, who has helped guide the careers of footballers including Jack Grealish and Gareth Bale, is retiring from the business.
MLS had to make a late change to their replacement referee for Inter Miami's clash with Orlando City on Saturday after pictures emerged of Guilherme Ceretta in an Inter shirt.
IRISH SUNDAY MIRROR
Slaven Bilic has emerged as the probable successor to Stephen Kenny as Republic of Ireland manager, most likely taking over from interim boss John O'Shea at the end of the Saudi Pro League season, where he is currently working with Al-Fateh.
THE SUN ON SUNDAY
Chelsea fans were calling for Jose Mourinho's return to Stamford Bridge during Chelsea's slump against Brentford on Saturday, although they did grab a late equaliser to claim a 2-2 draw.
Former Plymouth Argyle star David Norris was back at Home Park handing out free pasties on Saturday to thank supporters for their generosity in raising £6000 to stop him having to sell his prized memorabilia after saying his parents had "disappeared with my savings" in January.
Gordon Hill is the latest former Manchester United player to complain that the club is forcing him to relocate his season ticket because of changes at Old Trafford.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
England's tour of India could end in farcical fashion with Dharamsala expected to feel more like the Alps when the final Test is being played - sleet is expected in the Himalayan city with temperatures barely above freezing on the opening day.
SUNDAY MAIL
Rangers fear Oscar Cortes could miss the remainder of the season with the muscular injury he sustained against Kilmarnock in midweek.
Guardian
West Ham’s stoppage-time double seals comeback and adds to Everton woes
Andy Hunter at Goodison Park
A shirtless Tomas Soucek celebrates after giving West Ham the lead in stoppage time. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters
No appeals board will save Everton. The responsibility for Premier League survival rests with Sean Dyche and his players but, along with taking responsibility for scoring a goal, it is one they are abdicating. West Ham showed the finishing touch that Everton have lacked all season to inflict a damaging defeat with two immaculate stoppage time goals.
An exquisite 91st minute goal from Tomas Soucek turned an even contest West Ham’s way before Edson Álvarez sealed a second win in six days for David Moyes’s improving side. The visitors trailed to a second-half header from Beto, who had missed the chance to put Everton ahead from the penalty spot in the first half, but a swift response from Kurt Zouma provided the platform for a stirring comeback. Despite recent calls for Moyes’s exit, West Ham have now collected more points this season than last. With Lucas Paquetá returning to fitness and form, and Alphonse Areola excelling in goal, the visitors have renewed optimism ahead of another midweek with European football.
Everton have only a creeping and familiar sense of gloom. The return of four points on Monday may have given Dyche’s team a psychological lift but it did not transfer to their performance on the pitch. The hosts were again woeful in front of goal, Beto’s finish aside, and their previously assured defence has conceded costly stoppage-time goals on two successive weekends. It is an alarming combination for a team that is now without a win in 10 Premier League games.
“The responsibility is on us, it’s as simple as that,” said a despairing Dyche. “I’m always mentioning the chances we create and the games we don’t win but we can’t keep talking about it. Twenty two shots on goal and we score one. We’ve got to do more than that. I can’t remember in my life a team that has had so many chances and can’t see a game through. Where does it go?”
Beto was making his first start of the year after the Everton manager’s patience with Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s goal drought understandably expired after 20 games. The first half was a stalemate with both sides short on creativity and guilty of squandering possession cheaply, which heightened the importance of the penalty Everton were awarded just before the break.
The vast majority of the stadium knew Zouma had handled from Beto’s chip but referee Craig Pawson failed to spot the offence. VAR eventually sent Pawson to the pitchside monitor and the inevitable spot-kick was given. There seemed an inevitability to the outcome too as Beto, with only one Premier League goal to his name, sized up how to beat Areola. The keeper saved a poor penalty low to his left. The Portuguese forward’s limited game-time was another reason it was a surprise to see him take Everton’s first penalty award of the season. His admirable sense of responsibility did not reflect well on more established teammates.
Beto’s performance, and the entire contest, improved considerably in a more open and entertaining second half. The centre-forward atoned for his penalty miss to give Everton the lead from James Garner’s deep cross. Sprinting in behind Konstantinos Mavropanos, Beto met the midfielder’s excellent delivery from the right with a clinical header into the bottom corner. Areola’s point-blank save from the out-of-form Dwight McNeil then proved a turning point.
Zouma brought the visitors level with a thumping header from a James Ward-Prowse corner. Areola produced an outstanding, athletic save to prevent Beto’s deflected shot looping in and Soucek scrambled clear off the line from Abdoulaye Doucouré. The Czech midfielder saved his finest contribution for the end. Taking Mohammed Kudus’s cross down on his chest, Soucek curled a glorious half volley into Jordan Pickford’s far corner with the outside of his right foot. West Ham fans were still celebrating the late sucker-punch when Jarrod Bowen led a breakaway from a poorly-taken Everton corner and found Álvarez charging into space down the left. The midfielder dinked a delightful finish over Pickford to seal West Ham’s first away win of the year.
“It was harsh on Everton,” said Moyes, “But we scored four against Brentford and three at Everton, and they don’t concede many, so we are doing the job. We’ve had a difficult period but we are still hanging in there and now we go into Europe for the third year in a row.”
Mail
Everton 1-3 West Ham: Tomas Soucek and Edson Alvarez score late on as Hammers come from behind to maintain push for Europa League spots
By Joe Bernstein
If Everton thought their luck was beginning to change after success with their points appeal, this was a cruel setback.
Rarely can have they played this well under Sean Dyche but still felt the pain of defeat after two sucker-punches from West Ham in injury-time – the first of which was a strike of beauty from the outside of Tomas Soucek’s right boot.
Before then, Alphonse Areola had made nine saves in the West Ham goal including a penalty stop from Beto.
Even winning manager David Moyes, returning to his former club, said: ‘The result was harsh on Everton. I told our goalkeeper he made the difference. His performance was terrific.’
Dyche was more inclined to blame the wastefulness of his own players. ‘How we are not scoring more is bizarre,’ he said.
‘We created chances again and didn’t win. It just can’t keep going on. You have to score more than once when you are doing the sort of work we did. I am very frustrated’.
Football at Goodison has often been attritional but this was front foot and entertaining.
Yet defeat extends Everton’s winless run to 10 matches. Though they’ve been handed back four of the 10 points originally docked for financial rule breaches, they’re still uncomfortably close to the relegation zone.
For West Ham, a sticky patch that brought criticism for Moyes is in the rear mirror for now. Four goals against Brentford last Monday and another three at Goodison mean they can face Freiburg in Europe with confidence. They’ve already got more league points this season than they totalled last year.
Beto’s misses were the story of a goalless first half. He fired at Areola when played through one-on-one and then hit a tame penalty awarded after a VAR check for handball against Zouma.
To his credit, he didn’t let the disappointment affect him. After 56 minutes when James Garner swung in a cross, he rose brilliantly between two defenders to power home a header for the opening goal.
The home side should have been out of sight with Dwight McNeil twice foiled by Areola’s athleticism. ‘He has a great natural spring,’ said Moyes afterwards.
They paid the price with West Ham’s leveller after 62 minutes. Set piece specialist James Ward-Prowse curled a corner into the danger area where Zouma got the important connection.
The Hammers skipper played 36 times for Everton in 2018/19 on loan from Chelsea and tried to keep his celebrations more muted than his team-mates.
Areola was inspired as Everton sought to regain the lead. He made an outstanding leap to divert Beto’s deflected shot that was spinning crazily towards the corner.
The Portuguese forward was withdrawn after 75 minutes with fatigue but it was a similar story for his replacement, Dominic Calvert-Lewin whose low finish from eight yards was also thwarted by the ‘keeper.
The final few minutes were ridiculously open by Premier League standards and in the end, it was Everton who cracked.
Mohammed Kudus’ cross from the left was met with a brilliant connection by Soucek lurking on the edge of the box. The ball rocketed into the top corner giving England No1 Jordan Pickford no chance. Soucek wasn’t bothered he got booked in the ensuing celebrations.
The life was sucked out of Goodison and the pass by Jarrod Bowen for Edson Alvarez to make it 3-1 was the final salt in the wound.
‘A wee bit of a throwback,’ said Moyes, pleased with his side’s resolve in the face of Everton pressure. ‘We’ve had a difficult period but we are still hanging in there.’
Better than that, arguably. West Ham are up to seventh in the table.
Dyche seems to have run out of ideas how to get his team to score more. Calvert-Lewin is on a run of 20 without a goal but the manager doesn’t want to heap all the pressure on his forwards.
‘Anyone is allowed to score,’ he said. ‘We controlled the game at 1-0. If we’d scored the second, it would have been a long way back for Everton. We needed to kill it off, no excuses.’
One positive note was Beto’s performance after a slow start to his Everton career for the £25million signing from Udinese. ‘He stuck at it after the penalty miss and scored a great goal,’ said his manager.
MATCH FACTS AND PLAYER RATINGS
Everton (4-4-1-1): Pickford 7; Godfrey 6, Branthwaite 6, Tarkowski 6, Mykolenko 7; Harrison 5.5 (Gomes 80), Onana 6, Garner 6.5, McNeil 7 (Dobbin 90); Doucoure 6 (Chermiti 90); Beto 7 (Calvert-Lewin 74)
Subs unused: Virginia (Gk), Patterson, Keane, Young, Coleman
Goal: Beto 56
Booked: Pickford
West Ham (4-2-3-1): Areola 9: Coufal 7, Mavropanos 6, Zouma 6.5, Emerson 6.5 (Ogbonna 90); Soucek 7, Alvarez 6.5; Kudus 6 (Johnson 90), Ward-Prowse 6.5 (Phillips 66 6), Paqueta 6 (Antonio 80); Bowen 6
Subs unused: Fabianski (Gk), Cresswell, Ings, Aguerd, Mubama
Goals: Zouma 62, Soucek 90, Alvarez 90
Booked: Soucek, Antonio
Referee: Craig Pawson 6
Attendance: 39,262
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Manchester United and Villarreal join West Ham and Rennes in scouting Antwerp’s Belgian international midfielder
Het Nieuwsblad are reporting that both Manchester United and Villarreal have joined West Ham and Rennes in scouting Antwerp’s central midfielder Mandela Keita. The 21-year-old was also the subject of interest from Blackburn last summer, but remained in Belgium.
Keita spent the second half of last season on loan at Antwerp from OH Leuven, helping the side win their first top flight title since 1957. So far this season he has made 20 appearances for the side, providing one assist. Keita has also been capped by the senior Belgian side recently.
Antwerp have already sold one highly rated midfielder this season, with young Arthur Vermeeren joining La Liga side Atletico Madrid. Transfermarkt currently valuates Keita at around €11m. Antwerp have an obligation to buy Keita at the end of the season as part of his second loan spell. Therefore, it is likely they will ask for an amount in excess of what they must pay Keita’s parent club in the summer.
