BBC
England midfielder Phil Foden, 23, is set to begin talks with Manchester City over a new contract that could make him one of the top earners at the club. (Football Insider)
City are the latest club to be linked with Portugal forward Pedro Neto, 23, joining Liverpool, Newcastle and Arsenal in the race for the winger valued at least £60m by Wolves. (Telegraph - subscription required)
Manchester United want to bring in a young left-back in the summer and will draw up a shortlist once their new board structure is completed. (Fabrizio Romano)
United are also hoping to land 18-year-old French centre-back Leny Yoro from Lille and could pay £41m to get the deal done. (Teamtalk)
Tottenham are considering rivalling Arsenal and Chelsea for Athletic Bilbao's 21-year-old Spain forward Nico Williams. (Mirror)
Spurs are confident that contract talks with captain Son Heung-min, 31, will be successful. The South Korea forward's current deal is set to expire in the summer of 2025. (Give Me Sport)
Contract talks between England midfielder Conor Gallagher, 24, and Chelsea have stalled because of financial issues at the club. (Football Insider)
Liverpool and Arsenal have stepped up their interest in Fulham's Portugal midfielder Joao Palhinha but Bayern Munich, who tried to sign the 28-year-old last summer, retain an interest. (Teamtalk)
Liverpool are set to confirm the return of Michael Edwards to the club next week, with Richard Hughes joining as sporting director. (Sky Sports)
Brentford will need to lower their asking price for England striker Ivan Toney to keep Arsenal and Chelsea interested in the wantaway 27-year-old. (Mirror)
AC Milan are keeping tabs on Fulham's English defender Tosin Adarabioyo, 26, who is out of contract in the summer. (Calciomercato - in Italian)
Paris St-Germain are ready to pay 200m euros (£170.2m) to sign Spain winger Yamine Lamal, 16, from Barcelona. (Marca - in Spanish)
Newcastle have been offered the chance to sign 19-year-old Ivorian midfielder Mario Dorgeles from Danish club Nordsjaelland. (Chronicle)
Sky Paper Talk
SUNDAY MIRROR
New Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is set to approve a record-breaking offer of just over £100m to secure the signing of Benfica's teen star Joao Neves this summer.
Ajax have drawn up a managerial shortlist that includes their former boss Erik ten Hag and outgoing Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders.
Brentford will have to slash their asking price for striker Ivan Toney despite strong interest from the likes of Arsenal as he closes on entering the last year of his contract. Their hopes for £100m for the England international could end up being more like £60m.
Manchester United teen sensation Kobbie Mainoo is set to treble his Old Trafford wages to around £60,000-a-week on an extended contract to 2030 that could see him become one of their top earners if he hits every target.
Tottenham and Everton are among a host of Premier League clubs showing interest in Hull City defender Jacob Greaves.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Manchester City and Liverpool are ready to battle for the signature of Wolves winger Pedro Neto this summer.
West Ham midfielder Lucas Paqueta could be the player Manchester City go for if Bernardo Silva leaves the Etihad at the end of the season.
Red Bull are ready to call Max Verstappen's bluff if he tries to force an exit from the team with the conglomerate's owner Chalerm Yoovidhya ready to test the legality of a supposed "escape clause" in his contract.
Gregor Townsend would not be drawn on his future as Scotland head coach after their shock Six Nations defeat at the hands of Italy on Saturday.
MAIL ON SUNDAY
Premier League clubs are split ahead of Monday's vote on the "New Deal" for the EFL, which would see them pay out £836m over the next five years, but want a deal done before the arrival of football's independent regulator.
Manchester United midfielder Scott McTominay is set to lose around £1m after investing in a company run by his fiancee's father which has now collapsed owing creditors nearly £18m
THE SUN ON SUNDAY
Pep Guardiola does not want Manchester City's clash with Liverpool to be overshadowed by any refereeing controversy and has warned his stars to avoid getting involved in any flashpoints.
Brentford are ready to give Championship star Sammie Szmodics his chance to shine in the Premier League with scout Mick Priest watching him score in Blackburn's recent 1-1 draw with Millwall.
David Moyes has signed his son, David Jr, to become part of West Ham's team of scouts in another pointer he is ready to stay on and sign a new deal with the club.
Tickets for the Anfield clash between Liverpool and Manchester City have been selling for as much as £6,500 on resale sites, some 100 times their face value.
Premier League chiefs are planning a further crackdown on time-wasting…by ball boys.
Crystal Palace are ready to make another move to bring Chelsea full-back Lewis Hall to the club after a season when he has failed to make much of an impact on loan at Newcastle.
Cameron Archer, Oli McBurnie and Daniel Jebbison will all leave Sheffield United if their relegation back to the Championship is confirmed.
Tottenham teenager Ashley Phillips is ready to turn down the chance to represent Wales.
Anthony Joshua laid into heavyweight Tyson Fury after his fellow Briton stole the limelight after Friday's knockout of Francis Ngannou with comments Joshua felt were "disrespectful".
Super League bosses are yet to receive a formal approach from the NRL to buy England's top rugby league competition.
DAILY STAR SUNDAY
Manchester United flop Donny van de Beek is expected back at Old Trafford this summer after failing to impress Eintracht Frankfurt during his loan spell in Germany.
Wolves are hoping to spark a bidding war for winger Pedro Neto this summer amid interest from four leading Premier League clubs.
Tottenham are considering a move fo Athletic Bilbao winger Nico Williams, who has already been linked with London rivals Arsenal and Chelsea.
Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi, who is out of contract this summer, is a target for Sevilla.
Tottenham midfielder Pape Sarr seems unlikely to be involved in football beyond his playing career as he is already keen to secure a future as as a computer scientist.
SUNDAY TIMES
Alastair Cook feels England will have to make a tough decision on the future of Jonny Bairstow in their Test setup after a poor tour of India, now that his time as wicketkeeper appears to be at an end.
SUNDAY MAIL
Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland has his fingers firmly crossed that he will receive a phone call from Gareth Southgate next week telling him he is back in England's squad.
Brendan Rodgers says he would not hesitate to sign more players from Israel and is sad at the way Liel Abada's stay in Glasgow came to an end earlier in the week.
Hibs boss Nick Montgomery is hoping the cash injection into the club from Bournemouth owner Bill Foley will help him keep loan stars Myziane Maolida and Emiliano Marcondes.
The Opposition View (Up the Clarets)
Burnley go to West Ham having hit the bottom
Tony Scholes
Burnley travel to the London Stadium tomorrow in the knowledge that we will need to pick up at least a point if we are to get away from the bottom of the league following Sheffield United’s point at Bournemouth this afternoon.
We last went bottom after the home defeat against West Ham in November but a week later beat Sheffield United to move ahead of them and we have remained so until today. Luton have also won an away point at Crystal Palace which takes them eight points clear of us but it is Nottingham Forest in 17th place who we must also get above and they are eleven points clear which shows just how difficult a task it will be trying to get anywhere near them or Everton, even if they were to have points deducted, more in Everton’s case.
We make the journey to the London Stadium with our record this season suggesting we might have more of a chance of a result given the game is away from home. Although we have now scored one goal more at home than away, we have won eight of our thirteen points on the road and we have conceded eight fewer goals than we have at Turf Moor.
Right now, we are on our longest run of the season without a win with just two points from nine games since the win at Fulham on the Saturday before Christmas. It’s our longest such run for just over two years, a run of eleven games that ended with a 3-0 win at Brighton although we had drawn seven of those eleven games.
During this recent run, we’ve seen three new players come in on loan including French defenders Lorenz Assignon and Maxime Estève and both have reported they are settling in well and Estève said: “It’s great with some of my teammates also being able to speak French. We do talk a lot and I think over the course of time it’s going to help me continue learning about football here in England.”
Of the football, he said: “I’ve found the game to be more physical than back home, certainly in the one against ones, the duels I’d say, but I’m getting a lot of playing time, I’m very happy with that. I think now the important thing is to kick on and get some points and some victories behind us.”
Looking at the league table right now, all but one of our points have come against teams in the bottom half of the table, the one exception was the 1-1 draw at Brighton who currently sit in tenth place.
We’ve had no updates on potential injuries but we know that Aaron Ramsey, Nathan Redmond and Luca Koleosho are out along with Lyle Foster and Jordan Beyer but we do have Josh Brownhill ready to return after sitting out the Bournemouth game serving a one match ban for his red card at Crystal Palace.
The team for last Saturday’s game against Bournemouth was: James Trafford, Lorenz Assignon, Dara O’Shea, Maxime Estève, Charlie Taylor, Vitinho, Sander Berge, Josh Cullen, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Wilson Odobert, David Datro Fofana. Subs: Arijanet Muric, Hjalmar Ekdal, Hannes Delcroix, Jack Cork, Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson, Mike Trésor, Manuel Benson, Zeki Amdouni, Jay Rodriguez.
West Ham are currently in seventh place in the table with 42 points from their 27 games. Although they are having another decent season, and are still in Europe, their fans certainly have mixed opinions on manager David Moyes who is now in his second spell there and has been since replacing Manuel Pellegrini in late December 2019. He is currently the seventh longest serving manager in English league football with his time at West Ham.
They’ve won twelve of their league games this season, six of those at home and six away. All of Chelsea, Sheffield United, Nottingham Forest, Wolves, Manchester United and Brentford have been beaten at the London Stadium but Newcastle, Crystal Palace, Brighton and Bournemouth have come away with a point while Manchester City, Everton and Arsenal have won with Arsenal the more recent with their 6-0 victory.
They’ve scored 43 league goals this season with Jarrod Bowen leading their scoring chart with fourteen of them, followed by Tomáš Souček and Mohammed Kudus having both scored four. It was Souček who scored their stoppage time winner at Burnley back in November. Bowen is moving ever closer to a Premier League record at West Ham. Only two players have scored more goals than him for the club in a Premier League season. In the 1997/98 season John Hartson scored fifteen and two seasons later Paolo di Canio beat that with sixteen goals.
Having gone six games without a win, ending with defeat at Nottingham Forest they face us having won their last two Premier League games against Brentford and Everton although they did lose their Europa League round of sixteen first leg against Freiburg last Thursday.
Left-back Emerson was withdrawn during that game and will be assessed ahead of tomorrow’s game as will Nayef Aguerd. The one player definitely ruled out is former Burnley player Maxwel Cornet who continues to have hamstring problems. Since signing for West Ham in the summer of 2022 he has made just nineteen Premier League appearances with only three of those starts. His one goal for them was the first in their 2-2 draw at Sheffield United in January.
Their last league game was at Everton a week ago and they lined up: Alphonse Areola, Vladimir Coufal, Konstantinos Mavropanos, Kurt Zouma, Emerson Palmieri, Tomáš Souček, Edson Álvarez, Mohammed Kudus, James Ward-Prowse, Lucas Paquetá, Jarrod Bowen. Subs: Lukasz Fabianski, Joseph Anang, Ben Johnson, Aaron Cresswell, Michail Antonio, Kalvin Phillips, Danny Ings, Angelo Ogbonna, Divin Mubama.
LAST TIME WE WERE THERE
Tomorrow will be our seventh visit to the London Stadium. We’ve won twice there, 3-0 in 2017/18 with a goal from Ashley Barnes and two from Chris Wood and 1-0 two seasons later when Jay Rodriguez scored the only goal.
We’ve also drawn once and that came on our last visit on Easter Sunday two years ago. It will best be remembered as the first game after the dismissal of manager Sean Dyche two days earlier with Michael Jackson in charge of the team.
We were eighteenth in the table after thirty games and while obvious favourites to go down, our position was nothing like as perilous as it is now.
We started well without threatening before Nick Pope made an outstanding save to keep us level. Soon afterwards, the game was held up for around eight minutes with what was clearly a serious injury for Ashley Westwood. A distraught Nikola Vlašić, who had innocently been involved in the incident, had to be comforted by players of both sides. Westy did smile as he was stretchered off the pitch. It was the other Ashley, his mate Barnes, who told him not to worry, that it was only a knock.
Westy, of course, never played for us again, what a sad end it was to an outstanding five years at Burnley.
We then stunned the home fans a couple of minutes after the restart when a corner was headed onto the bar by Jay Rodriguez with Wout Weghorst scoring his second and most recent Burnley goal as he headed it in.
That lead should have been doubled when Maxwel Cornet won us a penalty. Jay Rod picked up the ball but gave it up to Cornet who had never taken a penalty before during a game. He tried a stop/start run up before rolling the ball wide of the target.
West Ham were the more likely in the second half and we were so thankful to man of the match Pope who made a string of fine saves. He was beaten once when Tomáš Souček scored but it was a good point.
The teams were;
West Ham: Lukasz Fabianski, Ben Johnson, Craig Dawson, Issa Diop, Aaron Cresswell, Tomáš Souček, Declan Rice, Jarrod Bowen, Manuel Lanzini (Pablo Fornals 79), Nikola Vlašić (Said Benrahma 65), Michail Antonio. Subs not used: Alphonse Areola, Vladimir Coufal, Andriy Yarmolenko, Mark Noble, Ryan Fredericks, Arthur Masuaku, Alex Král.
Burnley: Nick Pope, Matt Lowton (Connor Roberts 61), Nathan Collins, James Tarkowski, Charlie Taylor, Dwight McNeil (Matěj Vydra 79), Ashley Westwood (Josh Brownhill 31), Jack Cork, Maxwel Cornet, Wout Weghorst, Jay Rodriguez. Subs not used: Wayne Hennessey, Phil Bardsley, Kevin Long, Dale Stephens, Aaron Lennon, Ashley Barnes.
