Monday newspapers (includes West Ham)

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"BBC Juventus forward Matias Soule, who is currently on loan at Frosinone, is attracting interest from the Premier League with Newcastle United leading the chase for the 20-year-old Argentine. (Gazetta dello Sport - in Italian) Manchester United could sell English midfielder Jadon Sancho, 23, and Dutch midfielder Donny van de Beek, 26, to Juventus for just ¬£26m. (Sun) Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who is yet to complete a deal to take over football operations at Manchester United, is already in discussions about the future of the club's on-loan English forward Mason Greenwood, 22. (Caught Offside) Some Everton players could seek compensation from the club for loss of earnings if they are relegated, following the Toffees' 10-point penalty for financial rule breaches. (Sun) France centre-back Jean-Clair Todibo, 23, ""remains a candidate"" for a winter move from Nice to Manchester United. (Sky Sports Germany) Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo says Portugal forward Joao Felix, 24, will return to the club if Barcelona choose not to make his loan stay at the Nou Camp permanent. (Goal) Manchester United's 18-year-old English midfielder Kobbie Mainoo will double his wages - from ¬£10,000 to ¬£20,000 - should he become a regular in the first team. (Star) Bayern Munich's Germany forward Thomas Muller, 34, has been linked with a move to Manchester United after being urged by the Bavarian club's former captain Lothar Matthaus to seek game time elsewhere. (Sun) Muller is likely to extend his contract until 2025 at Bayern Munich, with the German club's sporting director Christoph Freund pushing for the forward to get a new deal. (Sky Sports Germany) Spain defender Marcos Alonso knows Barcelona will not extend his contract beyond summer 2024 and the 32-year-old could return to the Premier League or move to Saudi Arabia when his deal comes to an end. (Sport - in Spanish) Nottingham Forest could face a January transfer embargo over late fee payments owed to agents. (Sun) West Ham are set to apply to have the London Stadium capacity expanded to 68,000 on match days, which would make it the second-largest Premier League ground behind Old Trafford. (Mail) Sky Paper Talk DAILY STAR Erling Haaland faces an FA charge after blasting referee Simon Hooper following Manchester City's six-goal thriller with Tottenham at the Etihad. Olympiakos' Greek Super League clash with Volos was suspended after police accidentally tear-gassed the players. Ex-Manchester United shot-stopper Tim Howard believes there's a lack of respect between the Red Devils players and Erik ten Hag. THE SUN Manchester United could reportedly sell Jadon Sancho and Donny van de Beek to Juventus for just ¬£26m. Bayern Munich are reportedly scouting three potential long-term replacements for Manuel Neuer. Erling Haaland has carried on his blazing rant from Manchester City's draw with Tottenham on social media. Mauricio Pochettino was involved in a huge melee with Adam Lallana following Chelsea's win against Brighton. DAILY MAIL Reading boss Ruben Selles and head of football operations Mark Bowen have forfeited their wages until staff at the club receive their November pay in full. Ref's body PGMOL is seeking a new chair in a role which may take some pressure off the shoulders of chief refereeing officer Howard Webb. Officials at Blackpool have been left seething at the FA over the ludicrously late postponement of their FA Cup tie with Forest Green. PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was sent off for a bizarre high challenge in their Ligue 1 clash against Le Havre. Adam Lallana was irked by Chelsea players celebrating in front of him at full-time as Chelsea claimed a valuable 3-2 win against Brighton on Sunday. DAILY MIRROR A furious Steve McClaren once again had to order Manchester United's players to go and applaud their fans following yet another pathetic performance against Newcastle. Roy Hodgson says Eberechi Eze will attempt to train next week against the wishes of Crystal Palace's medical staff. Arsenal are reportedly interested in a deal for Juventus wonderkid Kenan Yildiz. Manchester United are plotting a January move for OGC Nice defender Jean-Clair Todibo despite the Frenchman snubbing interest from the Red Devils in the summer. Pep Guardiola appeared to take a swipe at Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta after he was asked to address the late controversy which marred Manchester City 's enthralling 3-3 draw against Tottenham on Sunday. Former Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea took to social media and posted a cryptic message following yet another defeat for his old side. Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has admitted Joel Matip's absence ""will not be a short one"" after the defender was forced off with a suspected ankle injury against Fulham. DAILY TELEGRAPH David Warner looks set to be given the fairytale hometown Test send-off he craves, despite fierce criticism from former team-mate Mitchell Johnson for his part in the sandpaper scandal and for having a ""tailender's average"" in recent years. THE ATHLETIC French side Nantes have confirmed one of their supporters died before their Ligue 1 match against Nice on Saturday night. Barcelona sporting director Deco has confirmed that Vitor Roque will join the Spanish club in the January transfer window. THE GUARDIAN Rory McIlroy believes ""elite pros"" and equipment makers are to blame for an expected rule change which will reduce how far golf balls travel. Brendan Rodgers claimed he had never been angrier as a manager after watching Celtic's ""soft"" first-half performance in a 3-1 Premiership comeback win over St Johnstone. A supporter from Nantes died on Saturday following a fight that took place before the club's 1-0 win against Nice in the latest outbreak of violence to mar French football this season. SCOTTISH SUN Philippe Clement has revealed that he ""didn't know"" Rangers' new director of football recruitment Nils Koppen, despite working at Genk at the same time. Plastic pitches could be scrapped from the Premiership before next season begins, according to a report. Guardian Odsonne ?âdouard cancels out West Ham‚Äôs early lead against Crystal Palace Jonathan Wilson at the London Stadium There are some games in which, you suspect, the two managers could have shaken hands on a draw before kick-off and nobody would much have minded. From the moment Odsonne ?âdouard levelled eight minutes after half-time, this felt sure to finish level, and all that was left was to go through the motions so as to fulfil the contract to provide 90 minutes for the Sky cameras. The growing number of empty seats on a dank, raw afternoon in east London suggested few who had paid for tickets felt a similar obligation. The two oldest managers in the league spent most of the second half standing almost motionless on the edge of their technical areas, hands thrust in pockets looking vaguely disgruntled, as though they were just counting down the seconds till they could drift off for a mug of cocoa and an episode of Matlock. Not until the 82nd minute did either manager make a change, Roy Hodgson blinking first and bringing on Ja?Øro Riedewald, eternal king of the bench, for Will Hughes. ‚ÄúIt was a tough game for us,‚Äù David Moyes said. ‚ÄúA tight, tight Premier League game. We couldn‚Äôt play with enough personality, get the atmosphere going. We were down and couldn‚Äôt get the thing lifted.‚Äù West Ham had taken a 13th‚Äëminute lead with a goal of misleading quality, James Ward-Prowse sweeping a cross‚Äëfield pass to Vladimir Coufal, whose first-time cross found Mohammed Kudus. His shot took a nick off Marc Gu?©hi on its way past Johnstone. But David Moyes, despite having three attacking midfielders and two centre-forwards on the bench, and despite the fact West Ham had returned from Serbia on Friday and looked weary, did not make a single change until the 88th minute when Pablo Fornals was belatedly introduced. Finally, there was some urgency, and Jarrod Bowen might have won it, but headed straight at Sam Johnstone from six yards out. Kudus scored in the 13th minute but West Ham were unable to hold on to their advantage Mohammed Kudus was delighted after putting West Ham in front against Crystal Palace It was probably Hodgson who was happier with the point, if only to stop a run of recent defeats. It would be an exaggeration to suggest he had been under pressure, but with this result Palace have now won just once in their past seven games. The gap to the bottom three remains at nine points but a defeat against Bournemouth on Wednesday, particularly with Liverpool and Manchester City next up, could start to induce twitchiness. ‚ÄúFor a large period I was quite pleased with the way we were defending and attacking,‚Äù he said. ‚ÄúThen you have to go through the anxious moments of last five minutes of normal time and five minutes of added time. We‚Äôve just lost two games to late goals. I could have done without that last 10 minutes. Had we lost to another late goal it could have had massive consequences for the team‚Äôs confidence.‚Äù Edouard equalised after Konstantinos Mavropanos‚Äô back pass, which was shockingly short Palace generally feel like a club in a search of a purpose. This is their 11th successive season in the Premier League, in which time they have been consistently lower mid-table. The two attempts to break the mould and inject something more progressive or exotic ‚Äì Frank De Boer and Patrick Vieira, the latter having shown rather more promise than the former ‚Äì have faltered and, while Hodgson saved them last season and has never been less than solid, it is hard to imagine anything other than more of the same as long he remains. But then what else can they be? Palace have the 11th-highest wage bill in the Premier League, so 11th is their natural level. Life for them is plugging away, almost certainly doing enough to survive, occasionally achieving a notable result ‚Äì such as winning at Manchester United this season ‚Äì and occasionally producing a gifted young player, to whom fans can never wholly give their hearts because they know that by their early 20s they will be off to clubs with a more realistic prospect of playing regularly in European competition. Only the three promoted sides went into the weekend having scored fewer goals than Palace, although there is some mitigation in that, after the departure of Wilfried Zaha, injuries have meant Hodgson has been able to start Michael Olise and Eberechi Eze together only once this season and that lasted just 49 minutes before Eze was forced off with an ankle injury. They did not look much like scoring here, set-plays their only real threat. When they did score, the sixth goal West Ham have conceded in the first 15 minutes of the second half since the beginning of October, it was gifted them by Konstantinos Mavropanos. ‚ÄúFrom our point of view, it was terrible,‚Äù said Moyes, who admitted he was concerned by the habit of conceding just after half-time but seemed at a loss to explain it. ‚ÄúWe‚Äôre not going in and eating a pie and coming out and feeling rubbish,‚Äù he said. ?âdouard took the opportunity almost apologetically, squeezing it just inside the far post at a pace in keeping with the general torpor. The Athletic West Ham are rarely pleasing on the eye ‚Äì they need to show more personality By Roshane Thomas For David Moyes, it was a reality check, a reminder of the improvements his side need to make. Despite the attacking riches of Lucas Paqueta, Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus, there is another attribute the West Ham United manager yearns to see consistently. ‚ÄúWe couldn‚Äôt play with enough personality,‚Äù Moyes said after his side‚Äôs 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace. ‚ÄúWe couldn‚Äôt get the atmosphere going and we couldn‚Äôt get things lifted. We needed to play better and we didn‚Äôt quite get there. We‚Äôre playing safe and I want us to take more risks. I need us to get the ball into the forward players, run behind more and be a bigger threat. We didn‚Äôt even create enough set pieces today because we didn‚Äôt threaten often enough behind.‚Äù Moyes is right about his team not taking risks and lacking personality. On paper, a team featuring Kudus, Bowen, Paqueta and an in-form Tomas Soucek should have offered more offensively than Palace, whose threat was mostly restricted to Michael Olise and Odsonne Edouard, who scored Palace‚Äôs equaliser. West Ham failed to build on their 1-0 lead, the goal coming from Kudus, and their chances of a fifth successive win diminished even further once key players were shifted out of position, with Paqueta ending as a lone striker. The broader issue, however, is that West Ham are not a fun team to watch. They have only impressed in bursts this season. League victories over Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion in August and against Arsenal in the Carabao Cup in November showed West Ham are capable of playing an exciting style of football, but too often, they are cautious. There were boos from West Ham supporters following Sunday‚Äôs draw, but Moyes believes fans are sympathetic to the difficult balancing act of Premier League and Europa League football. ‚ÄúI didn‚Äôt hear that (the boos),‚Äù said Moyes. ‚ÄúA lot of supporters today understood Thursday night (a 1-0 away win against TSC Backa Topola) and today. Before today, we won two Premier League games on the bounce, so I didn‚Äôt sense that (frustration). It‚Äôs disappointing we didn‚Äôt win, but no more than that.‚Äù ‚ÄúIt was a tough game. We scored a good goal early on, which gave us something to hang onto and something to build from. We didn‚Äôt perform well in the first half but we grew a bit stronger in the second half, despite conceding a goal. ‚ÄúIf you look back at the last 10-15 minutes today, we missed a lot of big chances. The way we played in the last 15 minutes, I want us to play like that for 90 minutes. I‚Äôm saying, ‚ÄòWe need this to start straight away, we need to keep at it‚Äô.‚Äù Although West Ham are ninth, top of their Europa League group and in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, the sense remains that they are not pleasing to watch. Recent wins over Burnley and TSC were far from convincing, with Soucek scoring late winners in both. Other concerns include West Ham‚Äôs leaky defence, with their only clean sheet in the league this season coming against 20th-placed Sheffield United in September. West Ham are vulnerable after half-time, having conceded 16 goals this calendar year between the 45th and 60th minute. Offensively, they rely too heavily on moments of inspiration from Bowen or from Soucek bundling home after a set piece. To compound matters, lapses in concentration in defence remain an issue, with Konstantinos Mavropanos at fault for Edouard‚Äôs goal. In the coming weeks, West Ham need to be more ruthless offensively. They have the personnel to do so, with Kudus showing he can spearhead West Ham‚Äôs efforts to play more convincingly. Kudus, who signed from Ajax in August for a fee that could rise to ‚Ǩ44.5million (¬£38m), has scored five goals across 17 appearances. If there is to be an upturn in performances in forthcoming games against Tottenham Hotspur, Fulham and Wolverhampton Wanderers, Kudus‚Äô contribution will be key. ‚ÄúKudus was fantastic, probably the best player on the pitch,‚Äù said Moyes. ‚ÄúWe needed to get the ball round to him quicker and give him more opportunities and we didn‚Äôt quite do that.‚Äù West Ham need to start playing with the personality they are capable of showing."

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