Paper Talk
Paris Saint-Germain are ready to break the bank to sign Cristiano Ronaldo with a deal worth £400,000 per week.
Pep Guardiola is set to commit his future at Bayern Munich with a new £17m-a-year deal to be signed before Christmas.
Spurs are now one of the most attractive clubs on Earth to players, according to manager Mauricio Pochettino.
Birmingham boss Gary Rowett is now favourite for the vacant manager's role at Fulham, after Nigel Pearson and Steve Holland pulled out of the race to succeed Kit Symons.
France has no plans to scrap fan zones during Euro 2016 despite concerns over security following the Paris terror attacks.
Jack Grealish has been banished from Aston Villa's first team and ordered to train with the U21s.
Meanwhile, Villa defender Philippe Senderos could be thrown a career lifeline by FC Zurich after being left out of Remi Garde's Premier League squad.
Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson has urged Wayne Rooney to join him in China.
Crystal Palace want to sign 5ft 3ins Peterborough midfielder Erhun Oztumer, 24, who is valued at £500,000 by the Sky Bet League One club.
Newcastle and Stoke have joined the race for Oxford United midfielder Kemar Roofe, 22, but MK Dons are set to offer £500,000 for him in January.
Brendan Rodgers is in Qatar talking over a mega-money deal to return to football. The ex-Liverpool boss could earn £3.5m a year with Al Sadd.
Gareth Bale's agent tried to convince him to join Manchester United - and would have received £14m if the deal went through.
PSG and Sweden star Zlatan Ibrahimovic claims he can add fortune-telling to his repertoire - as he envisioned his own success.
Michael Laudrup is desperate to return to the Premier League and manage again after his spell with Swansea.
Southampton will resist Manchester United's attempts to land winger Sadio Mane in January.
Ex-Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit believes Juventus star Paul Pogba must become more of a 'leader' on the pitch.
Newcastle are set to throw teenage sensation Adam Armstrong, currently on loan at Coventry, into their fight for Premier League survival.
Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal has hinted he might try to sign a winger in the January transfer window.
John O'Shea is planning to use Sunderland's survival bid to launch his Euro 2106 ambitions with the Republic of Ireland.
Victor Wanyama is confident Southampton fans have forgiven him for trying to force a deadline day move to Tottenham.
QPR midfielder Leroy Fer, 25, is being lined up for a January loan move by former club Feyenoord.
Liverpool have been asked by the Premier League to formally submit their case over the purchase of Danny Ings ahead of a tribunal that is likely to take place in the New Year.
Everton winger Kevin Mirallas has become a January transfer target for Ligue 1 clubs AS Monaco and Marseille.
Jermain Defoe claims Sunderland team-mate Duncan Watmore reminds him of Real Madrid superstar Gareth Bale when he first arrived at Tottenham.
Aston Villa forward Jack Grealish, 20, has been told to train with the club's Under-21 squad after allegedly visiting a Manchester nightclub hours after the club's 4-0 defeat at Everton.
Dundee and Celtic will have to overcome many hurdles if they are given the green light to move a top-flight fixture to the United States.
BBC
Former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson, now manager at Shanghai SIPG, wants Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, 30, to join him in China. (Sun)
Arsenal are preparing a new move for Inter Milan's Argentina forward Mauro Icardi, 22, when the January transfer window opens. The Gunners had a £32m bid for Icardi rejected in the summer. (Tuttosport - in Italian)
Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool have all been made aware of the availability of Brazil forward Alexandre Pato, 26, in the January window. Pato is on loan at Sao Paulo from Corinthians. (London Evening Standard)
Paris St-Germain will offer Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo £250,000 a week after tax in an attempt to persuade the 30-year-old Portugal international to leave the Spanish capital. (Daily Mirror)
Aston Villa forward Jack Grealish, 20, has been told to train with the club's Under-21 squad after allegedly visiting a Manchester nightclub hours after the club's 4-0 defeat at Everton. (Telegraph)
Pep Guardiola is set to sign a new £17m-a-year contract to remain as Bayern Munich manager. (Daily Mirror)
Newcastle United manager Steve McClaren will be given more time and money despite their Premier League position. The Magpies are 17th in the table, one point above the relegation zone. (Chronicle)
Southampton will not sell forward Sadio Mane to Manchester United in January, although the 23-year-old Senegal international may leave at the end of the season. (Daily Mail)
Football journalist Andy Brassell says Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski, 27, cannot be tempted away from the Bundesliga. (Radio 5 live)
Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, 35, will train with the club next week but has ruled out a loan move back to Anfield. Gerrard is currently with Major League Soccer side LA Galaxy, whose season has ended. (BT Sport)
Birmingham City want to sign Czech striker Libor Kozak, 26, from neighbours Aston Villa. Kozak, a £7m signing from Lazio in September 2013, has yet to make a Premier League appearance this season. (Birmingham Mail)
Former Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson and Chelsea coach Steve Holland have pulled out of the race to be the next manager of Fulham. Birmingham City manager Gary Rowett is the favourite for the job. (Daily Mirror)
Former Manchester United and Arsenal forward Robin van Persie, 32, has reiterated his commitment to Turkish club Fenerbahce after being linked with Chelsea. (Turkish Football)
Manchester City are set to appoint Simon Davies as Under-21 manager to replace Patrick Vieira. Davies was Vieira's former assistant and was a member of Manchester United's so-called 'Class of 92'. (Daily Mail)
Bolton Wanderers manager Neil Lennon says potential new owners of the Championship club may want to replace him. The Trotters are bottom of the table, four points from safety. (Bolton News)
Liverpool and Burnley will present their case regarding the transfer of Danny Ings, 23, at a tribunal next year. The Reds must pay compensation for the striker as he is under 24, and value him at £5m, but Burnley say they previously had a £12m bid from Tottenham. (Daily Express)
Sunderland midfielder Liam Bridcutt, 26, is wanted on loan by three Championship clubs - Leeds United, Reading and Cardiff City. (Sunderland Echo)
Preston fans, angry at being asked to pay £37 for an adult ticket, have called for a boycott of the 20 December Championship game at Leeds United. (Lancashire Evening Post)
Stoke City defender Andy Wilkinson, 31, will fly to the United States to see specialists for a second time in an attempt to return from a career-threatening head injury. Wilkinson has not played since February. (Stoke Sentinel)
Former Arsenal defender Arinse Uade, 19, turned out as a trialist for Norwich City Under-21s in a 2-0 win over Manchester United. (Norwich Evening News)
Newcastle United midfielder Gael Bigirimana, 22, believes his future lies away from the club after failing to make an appearance for the Magpies since August 2013. Bigirimana has re-joined League One Coventry, the club where he started his career, on loan. (Coventry Telegraph)
Middlesbrough are close to agreeing a deal with Manchester City to extend midfielder Bruno Zuculini's loan at the Riverside. The former Argentina Under-20 international has made three appearances for Boro since joining at the end of October. (Northern Echo)
Best of social media
AFC Wimbledon on Twitter: "The former King of Centre Court @TheBorisBecker looks great in an @AFCWimbledon scarf!"
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey tweeted after the Gunners kept alive their Champions League hopes with a win over Dinamo Zagreb: "A good win, we'll go to Greece confident we can qualify."
Sunderland defender Younes Kaboul has thanked the fans who travelled to London to cheer the Black Cats to a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace. On Tuesday, Kaboul tweeted: "Great team performance last night. Big respect to the fans who travelled down there also. We keep going."
Southend United midfielder Ryan Leonard says he has rediscovered his scoring touch - thanks to pop star Justin Bieber. Leonard has scored three goals in five League One games since the Shrimpers starting listening to Bieber's music in the dressing room before kick-off. He failed to find the net at Oldham on Tuesday despite Southend's 5-2 win, but that did not stop Phil Brown's team celebrating - by playing more of Bieber's music.
And finally
Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, 26, has been told to stop driving a top-of-the-range sports car to prevent the risk of hamstring injuries. (Sun)
Manchester City forward Raheem Sterling, 20, has employed a music teacher after spending £10,000 on a new piano. (Daily Star).
Guardian Rumour Mill
Jacob Steinberg
Paris Saint-Germain are ready to give acting’s Cristiano Ronaldo a whopping £250,000 a week after tax to join them this summer. Just think how many more films he can make with that kind of money! He’ll be closing in on the Police Academy record soon enough and it is not possible to be grateful enough for that.
Did you know that Sven Goran-Eriksson is the manager of Shanghai SIPG? Weeeelllllllllll, it’s true, and he wants to be reunited with artist formerly know as The White Pele. That’s right, Wayne Rooney is heading to China! Sven and Wazza in China. There’s a documentary in that, possibly to be produced and directed by Cristiano Ronaldo.
Pep Guardiola is going to disappoint Chelsea and Manchester City by scrawling his name on a contract that will keep him at Bayern Munich until 2017. That’s a weird decision from Bayern given that Brendan Rodgers is available.
Arsenal are eyeing up Internazionale’s Mauro Icardi and whispering sweet nothings in his year. Can he play in defensive midfield?
Arsenal have also been linked Alexandre Pato. Can he play in defensive midfield?
A new low for Chelsea: their search for someone to take over Radamel Falcao’s role in the squad has seen them snubbed by Fenerbahce’s Robin van Persie, who lost the ability to run in early 2013.
HITC
The three Englishmen Slaven Bilic must axe to get West Ham's season back on track
West Ham United's brilliant start to the season has fallen flat of late and Slaven Bilic must find the answers to turn things around.
Damien Lucas
The Hammers were unceremoniously thrashed by their fierce rivals Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 on Sunday.
In truth the margin of victory could and probably should have been more.
Aside from their exit to FC Astra in the Europa League qualifiers - which was deemed something of a blessing in disguise - it was Bilic's first humiliation since his return to East London as boss.
It also stretched the club's winless run to three games following the draw with Everton and 2-0 defeat to Watford beforehand.
The loss of star player Dimitri Payet and £12 million striker Enner Valencia to long term injuries has made things difficult for the former Croatia boss.
Time to use the squad
But he does have plenty of options to change his side around, and he needs to start using them because it is just not working of late.
This season more than any other West Ham have a very good squad and it is time Bilic wielded the axe.
West Bromich Albion, fresh from their 2-1 win over Arsenal last time out, are up next for the Hammers on Sunday lunchtime.
Here are the three players Bilic must drop to get the Hammers back to winning ways.
Andy Carroll
Any West Ham fans that still clung on to the belief that Carroll could adapt to Bilic's style of play before the Spurs mauling must surely now be seeing the wood for the trees.
Carroll, once again, was poor, offering very little and making the Hammers far too predictable.
It wasn't for the lack of trying but Carroll is so limited as a footballer and is one of the slowest strikers around.
Even more frustratingly for Hammers fans, Diafra Sakho - the club's main goal threat and the player who essentially makes West Ham tick - was shoved out wide to accommodate the big Geordie.
The only time Carroll has looked effective since his comeback from injury was as a late second half sub against Chelsea where he got the winner. And that is the only way he should feature for Bilic, as a plan B when plan A hasn't worked.
Sakho must take his place up front if West Ham are to get back to their potent attacking best.
Mark Noble
Bilic made a rod for his own back by naming homegrown Hammer Noble captain after Kevin Nolan's departure.
Any West Ham fan worth their salt would have told him Noble was not a guaranteed starter in midfield and so cannot be the skipper.
And so it has proved. Noble has been one of the club's poorest performers of late and was once again completely ineffectual against Spurs.
Spanish star Pedro Obiang, signed for £5 million from Sampdoria in the summer, has had little game time due to a combination of injuries and, when he is fit, Bilic electing to play Noble ahead of him.
But classy pass master Obiang has been so impressive each time he has played for the Hammers and started in each of West Ham's away wins over Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City.
Obiang has a better passing range, is quicker and more mobile than Noble and West Ham could risk losing him long-term if he doesn't get enough game time.
James Tomkins
A few weeks back Tomkins looked majestic at the heart of the West Ham defence.
But he has been out of sorts of late and in each of the last three games has been directly at fault for a costly goal.
At Watford his terrible hashed clearance allowed Odion Ighalo to seal the game with a second goal after a Carroll howler had gifted the Hornets the first.
Against Everton Tomkins was again at fault when Romelu Lukaku split him and Winston Reid down Tomkins' side, defending Bilic later labelled 'cheap'.
Then against Spurs just after half-time with West Ham 2-0 down and the next goal crucial Tomkins played the ball straight to Harry Kane who lashed in a third.
Italian international Angelo Ogbonna was signed for £8 million in the summer and has been sat kicking his heels on the bench for the last few weeks since returning from injury.
The former Juventus defender had forged a solid partnership with Reid and that must be reinstated if West Ham want to improve.
Posh OS
Samuelsen Joins In Loan Deal
Posh swoop to sign highly-rated West Ham United attacker Martin Samuelsen.
Peterborough United have secured the loan signing of highly-rated West Ham United attacker Martin Samuelsen in a loan deal until 2nd January 2016.
Posh fought off competition from a number of other clubs to obtain the 18-year-old who has completed the paperwork ahead of the Sky Bet League One fixture with Barnsley at the ABAX Stadium.
The Norwegian youngster joined West Ham United on a two-year contract from Manchester City in June 2015 and can also operate in either wide position.
Capped by his country at U16, U17 and U18 levels, he impressed on his debut in a UEFA Europa League second qualifying round first-round tie against Maltese side Birkirkara at the Boleyn Ground on 16 July 2015 and he also featured in the Hammers side that played Posh during pre-season.
Samuelsen will wear the number 36 shirt during his stay at the ABAX.
Posh director of football Barry Fry revealed that he’s certain to get a run out at the weekend declaring: “He’s the icing on the cake for us.
“I think the club would sooner he had gone to a Championship club but we managed to get it done and I’m thrilled. He’s a terrific player and a great young man.
“He tore us apart in a pre-season friendly and he will be magnificent for us. I’m sure of that. We explained he will be playing in a diamond rather than out wide and he said that suited him down to the ground because he’d have more of the ball. Great attitude.”
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Ivory Coast ace issues come and get me plea to West Ham and Crystal Palace
IVORY COAST hotshot Gohi Bi Zoro Cyriac has issued a come and get me plea to West Ham and Crystal Palace.
ACE: Gohi Bi Zoro Cyriac in action for Anderlecht
By Paul Brown
Both clubs have watched the 25-year-old striker, who is currently top scorer in Belgium with ten goals in 15 games for Oostende.
And Cyriac admits he has his heart set on following in the footsteps of father figure Didier Drogba by making a move to the Premier League.
Asked about the interest from West Ham and Palace, he said: “I’m happy about that. I like those clubs. They would be a challenge for me.
“I was told they were in the stadium and that there is possible interest, but I am just concentrating on playing for my club.
“I would be happy to play in the best league in the world one day but right now I want to help Oostende qualify for Europe.
“I like the Premier League a lot. When I was a kid I liked Wayne Rooney, and I met Didier Drogba playing for the Ivory Coast. He has given me lots of advice.
“He is like a father figure. He has helped me a lot. I like the Premier League. It is very physical and referees play with a good spirit and don’t stop the attacks all the time.”
Cyriac, who joined Oostende from Anderlecht last summer, is under contract until 2019 but is understood to be keen on a move.
Palace are in the market because because they have struggled to get goals from their strikers this season, while West Ham are looking for depth as Diafra Sakho has struggled with injuries.
