BBC
Former Watford boss Marco Silva is among the candidates for the Southampton manager's job after they sacked Mauricio Pellegrino on Monday. (Mail)
Alternatively, Silva is set to return to his native Portugal as he is close to agreeing a deal to become the new coach of Benfica. (Times - subscription required)
Tottenham striker Harry Kane has been linked with a move to Real Madrid but the 24-year-old has suggested he will be staying with Spurs as he "can't wait to be out there scoring some goals" at the club's new stadium. (Telegraph)
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has told Real Madrid to "think of another player" in their search for a goalkeeper as he believes David de Gea, 27, will stay. (Express)
Liverpool and Manchester United's hopes of signing Lazio defender Stefan de Vrij, 26, could still be on as Inter Milan failed to confirm they would be signing the Dutch defender whose contract runs out at the end of the season. (Star)
Chelsea are monitoring AC Milan's Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, 19, in case Belgium international Thibaut Courtois, 25, leaves Stamford Bridge. (Corriere dello Sport, via Talksport)
Newcastle will try to sign on-loan Chelsea winger Kenedy on a permanent deal but will have to pay up to £15m for the 22-year-old Brazilian. (Mirror)
Juventus are concerned they may miss out on Liverpool midfielder Emre Can, whose contract expires at the end of the season, as Bayern Munich and Real Madrid are also interested in signing the 24-year-old Germany international. (Express)
Newcastle, Leicester and Southampton are all interested in 27-year-old Burnley and Iceland winger Johann Berg Gudmundsson. (Sun)
Barcelona have had a deal in place for months to sign France forward Antoine Griezmann, 26, with Atletico Madrid failing to agree terms on a contract extension. (Le10sport.com - in French)
West Brom want manager Alan Pardew to stay his role, but plan to name a new boss in the summer. (Mirror)
Arsenal are monitoring Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri after being impressed by how he masterminded Tottenham's Champions League exit. (Star)
Former Arsenal forward Paul Merson believes Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers should succeed Arsene Wenger as Gunners boss. (Sky Sports, via Express)
Arsenal are ready to sell Hector Bellerin to help fund their rebuilding plans, but want £50m for the 22-year-old right-back. Juventus are interested in signing the Spaniard. (Mail)
Gunners striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, 28, is "frustrated" at being cup-tied for the Europa League, having played for former club Borussia Dortmund in the competition before his January switch to Arsenal, as there is "a long time between games" for him. (Guardian)
Philippe Coutinho says he would love 26-year-old Brazil forward Neymar to return to Barcelona. Neymar joined PSG from Barca for £198m last summer, before compatriot Coutinho, 25, moved to the Nou Camp from Liverpool in January. (Mail)
Napoli coach Maurizio Sarri has apologised for "sexist and unacceptable" comments he made to a female journalist after his side's Serie A match on Sunday. (Mail)
West Ham are involved in a £100m-plus legal dispute with their London Stadium owners over the capacity as the stadium. (Telegraph)
The £2.5m rent West Ham pay to play at the London Stadium will drop by half if they are relegated to the Championship. (Sun)
Best of Monday's gossip
Wales forward Gareth Bale, 28, is set to leave Real Madrid this summer, with a return to the Premier League likely. (Diario Gol)
The La Liga side are interested in Liverpool's Mohamed Salah, 25, as a replacement for Bale but have been told they would have to pay 160m euros (£142m) for the Egypt forward. (El Confidencial)
Manchester United are the favourites to sign Bayern Munich's Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, 29, this summer. (ESPN)
But RB Leipzig's 22-year-old Germany forward Timo Werner has told United and Liverpool to forget abut trying to sign him this summer. (Mirror)
England are concerned about the fitness of Tottenham striker Harry Kane, 24, for this summer's World Cup after he was pictured wearing a protective boot after injuring his ankle against Bournemouth. (Sun)
Chelsea and France midfielder N'Golo Kante, 26, is one of Paris St-Germain's top summer targets. (Canal + via Goal.com)
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Paul Doyle
When Paris Saint-Germain close their eyes and envisage the ideal player to improve their midfield, they see N’Golo Kanté. And when PSG open their eyes and look at Chelsea’s midfield, they see N’Golo Kanté. They see him here, they see him there, those Frenchies see him everywhere. He’s like the Scarlet Pimpernel in reverse, and that darned ubiquitous Kanté will be the subject of a mind-altering transfer bid from PSG this summer.
If he returns to the city of his birth, Kanté may find Antonio Conte there, too, as there are mutterings in France about a meeting between PSG and people close to the current Chelsea manager. But PSG’s Brazilian players are said to have let it be known that they would prefer Unai Emery’s successor to be the former Barça boss Luis Enrique.
Chelsea, meanwhile, are pondering a swoop for Milan’s 19-year-old
goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, who could replace Spain-bound Thibaut
Courtois.
Having sacked Mauricio Pellegrino in a bid to shock their players into action, Southampton are on the prowl for a new manager. Mark Hughes is said to be in the running, although wags might say his last 18 months at Stoke was the biggest contribution he could make to Southampton’s attempt to stay up. Marco Silva has also been mentioned but the grapevine says he’s more likely to join Benfica.
Manchester United and Liverpool are set to lock horns again, this time for the services of the Dutch defender Stefan De Vrij, whose mooted move from Lazio to Internazionale has reportedly collapsed. Meanwhile, when Emre Can leaves Liverpool this summer, it might not be to Juventus, after all, because Bayern Munich and Real Madrid are said to have joined the queue for him.
Reports in France claim that Antoine Griezmann will join Barcelona this summer after leaving Atlético Madrid. Reports in England say Arsenal are considering offering a managerial role to Massimiliano Allegri after being impressed by the way Juve knocked Spurs out of the Champions League. You’d have thought Allegri might have been on the radar before then, mind. If Allegri does join, he’ll wave Héctor Bellerín off in the other direction, as Juve are said to be keen on hiring the right-back.
HITC
The bitter taste of regret as West Ham fans see the folly of their misplaced Red Bull relief
Damien Lucas
West Ham United are a club in crisis as recent events have brutally and publicly laid bare.
If anyone was in any doubt over the strength of feeling from West Ham's fans towards co-owners David Sullivan, David Gold and vice-chairman Karren Brady then Saturday's events during the 3-0 defeat to Burnley at the London Stadium provided perfect clarity.
If you are one for social media a simple search of the hashtag WestHamRIP sums up the sheer weight of feeling that the club has not only lost its soul following Sullivan and Gold to Stratford but has died.
However, Saturday's controversy proved unequivocally that supporters will not allow that to happen without a fight.
The whole sorry saga is lathered with regret. And not just over the ill-fated move to the former Olympic Stadium but the very ownership of the club.
Because when reports emerged in December 2016 that West Ham turned down a £650 million takeover from Red Bull, there was misplaced relief from Hammers fans.
To a degree it was understandable, after all people don't like change, it's a common human trait.
But the reaction to reports that the Austrian drinks giant wanted to buy the East London club were extreme to say the least.
Irrational fears were spouted on social media after The Telegraph reported Hammers co-owners Sullivan and Gold had turned down the huge bid.
Supporters were worried the marketing machine would come in and rename the club, change the badge, the kit colours and all but erase Bobby Moore from the history books.
Now West Ham fans are fiercely loyal and extremely knowledgeable about their football, but the reaction smacked of rank ignorance of the world outside the Premier League bubble.
In reality none of those things would have happened, because if there is one thing Red Bull isn't... it's stupid.
The company, worth over $8billion, has wide ranging sporting interests across the globe and is famous for spending big and wisely to make a success of its ventures.
In Germany, the club Red Bull Leipzig - which was originally fifth division side SSV Markranstädt before being purchased and rebranded - is widely reviled.
But that is chiefly because the owners have done everything in their power to invest as much as possible to make the team a success.
And they have done just that with the side rocketing up the leagues and now fighting it out in the Bundesliga and Europe.
Red Bull would not have renamed the Hammers, they are too savvy to make such a gloriously stupid error. If anything they would market and push the club's history - perhaps its most cherished and valuable remaining asset - better than ever before.
But guess what Sullivan and Gold had the word 'London' cynically and rather crassly added to the club's badge, which is a big grievance for fans.
It is a badge which looks like it has been knocked up on Microsoft Paint and it is a badge the majority of supporters hate, would Red Bull really have done any worse?
But badges and the amount of club colours and livery on display around the soulless bowl of twisted metal that is the London Stadium are mere sideshows in the grand scheme of things.
The two big problems the Hammers have are 1) A lack of the kind of investment promised - and needed - to challenge in the Premier League and 2) The design of the stadium - critically the distance the stands are away from the pitch and the impact that has on atmosphere.
The oval bowl is not conducive to generating the kind of intimidating atmosphere which made Upton Park famous.
Investment in players under Red Bull would have been on another level to anything West Ham fans have ever seen without being 'too Man City or Chelsea' - think Everton with the added carrot of London.
Had the company taken over it would have surprised nobody had they bought the financially ailing stadium outright and redeveloped it into a proper football stadium befitting West Ham United.
A precedent has already been set by Spurs - with Chelsea set to follow suit too - in renting Wembley.
Gut the ill-conceived stadium innards and redesign to get the seats close to the pitch and Red Bull would have been on to a winner.
In terms of the key 'ings' Red Bull would have been the ideal people to take West Ham to the next level by investing, branding and most importantly understanding what is needed to bring success.
If January reports are to be believed, Sullivan and Gold's plan to achieve that was taking out a loan for a different type of 'ings' - namely Danny Ings, the injury-prone Liverpool striker who has not scored a goal since 2015, when West Ham were still playing at their beloved Boleyn.
As an established, Premier League outfit with a huge stadium, in all likelihood Red Bull would have looked to rename the ground The Red Bull Stadium.
Is that any worse than the London Stadium - a fittingly sterile name for an arena which has struggled to find a realistic naming partner offering anything more than Premier League pocket change for it to bear its name?
Fans feared the club would be selling out or selling it's soul had Red Bull taken over. In truth that has already happened without any of the success to go with it and now only bitter regret, resentment and a very realistic possibility of relegation remain.
But in football there is always hope and who knows perhaps recent events might just spark renewed interest in the club if the situation for the owners becomes untenable.
Telegraph
Exclusive: West Ham in £100 million legal dispute with their London Stadium landlords over capacity and revenue
Fans protest to the club's owners during West Ham's defeat to Burnley Credit: GETTY IMAGES
Ben Rumsby, Sports News Correspondent Jason Burt, Chief Football Correspondent
The full extent of the toxic relationship between West Ham United and their London Stadium landlords can be laid bare today with The Daily Telegraph able to reveal that the two sides are locked in a £100 million-plus legal row that will see them face off at the High Court in November.
West Ham and the publicly-funded London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) spent Monday in talks over how to prevent a repeat of Saturday's violent protests during Saturday’s game with Burnley, but the two sides are also in a bitter dispute over the capacity for football matches at the former Olympic Stadium.
When West Ham moved in to the stadium last season under the "deal of the century", they believed it would entitle them to a capacity of 60,000, but LLDC said the figure was just 53,500. A compromise was reached that guaranteed West Ham an additional 3,500 seats.
However, West Ham want permission to fill all of the stadium's 66,000 seats, which could be worth millions of pounds each year to them in increased ticket revenue. With LLDC demanding payment for anything above 57,000, the club has brought the lawsuit against the authority.
The legal dispute is a new low in the complex relationship between the two sides since West Ham became tenants at the Olympic Stadium for an annual fee of £2.5m. There were serious security issues during last season’s Carabao Cup tie with Chelsea and West Ham have now demanded both an increased police presence and that they are allowed to take over stewarding after the shocking events of Saturday, where there were repeated pitch invasions and fans hurled abuse and coins at co-owners David Sullivan and David Gold.
The two parties have been locked in discussions over how to ensure there is no repeat of such scenes over the final five games of the season but the fact their legal dispute is heading to the High Court demonstrates the depth of ill-feeling between them.
The additional seats could provide West Ham with significantly increased ticket revenue and one element of their lawsuit is a loss-of-earnings claim for being prevented from using those seats this season.
Over the course of their 99-year lease, that would multiply into hundreds of millions of pounds, something the LLDC argues the taxpayer - the primary funders of the transformation of the stadium into the home of a Premier League football club - is entitled to a share of.
One source has told The Telegraph the total amount of money at stake is “well in excess of £100 million”, with another revealing legal costs for both sides has already hit £2m and could end up being triple that.
The club are also aggrieved that the stadium still lacks the look or feel of a West Ham home, having failed to strike an agreement to alter the colour of the pitch surround from green to claret or secure a greater say over signage during the season.
No decisions were taken at Monday’s meetings over how to prevent a repeat of Saturday’s events in time for the club’s next home game with Southampton in three weeks time and there will now be another summit on Thursday at which new proposals will be considered. Options such as sealing off parts of the ground - particularly the concourse below the directors’ box where angry fans congregated and threw coins at West Ham’s owners - having a police presence inside the stadium, and additional stewards provided and paid for by West Ham, could be on the table.
The main priority of those in charge of safety is to avoid a repeat of people being knocked over in the stands and children being forced to flee.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, who is ultimately responsible for the stadium, condemned the scenes as “disgraceful”, his spokesperson said, and called for West Ham to “take proper action against those supporters who misbehaved”.
Khan announced in December that he would take full control of the stadium, with the London borough of Newham withdrawing from the partnership which owns it following the publication of an independent review.
Newham Council, which remains the certifying authority for the stadium, said in a statement on Monday: “Newham Council is extremely concerned about the violent scenes witnessed during Saturday's match, and utterly condemns the actions of the small minority of troublemakers responsible.
“In December last year, Newham Council completely withdrew from its position as part owners of the London Stadium, but retains the role of certifying authority.
“In that capacity, the council, along with the Sports Ground Safety Authority, is urgently reviewing the safety management plans and procedures and staffing of the stadium.
“The evidence gathered and the revised safety management plans will be discussed at an emergency Stadium Safety Advisory Group (SAG) which includes the Metropolitan Police, E20 and West Ham United FC.
“The discussion at the SAG will assist the council before any decision is made regarding future sporting and other events.”
That will involve all parties working together and as one source put it, West Ham’s tenancy has been undermined from day one by “a series of relationships and contracts that mean people don’t work with each other but against each other”.
Evening Standard
West Ham to appoint a director of football as David Sullivan takes a step back from transfer dealings
EXCLUSIVE
KEN DYER
West Ham will appoint an experienced director of football at the end of the season in a bid to head off criticism from fans of their recruitment strategy.
Frustration boiled over during the 3‑0 defeat by Burnley on Saturday when some fans invaded the London Stadium pitch and hundreds hurled abuse at the club’s owners.
West Ham’s transfer policy over the past two seasons has been one prominent source of dissatisfaction among the supporters and there will be changes this summer.
Co-owner David Sullivan, who has been directly involved in signings, including dealing with agents, will step away from that role, which will be handled by an experienced figure.
Sullivan, co-owner David Gold and vice-chairman Karren Brady have agreed on the new post but no appointment will be made until manager David Moyes’s future at the club is decided.
Moyes, who succeeded Slaven Bilic in November, has repeatedly stated no decision will be made on his future until West Ham’s Premier League destiny is decided, which may not be until the end of the season.
Sullivan is keen for Moyes to remain and is ready to offer a long-term deal if survival is confirmed.
Moyes is under contract until the end of the season and has said he is enjoying his time at West Ham but will want assurances from the club, particularly on spending for next season before making a decision.
“They have signed an awful lot of good players here, a lot of good players - Manuel Lanzini, Marko Arnautovic - so there’s no criticism, but we’re going to set up something that hopefully gives us another look,” said Moyes after the 2-0 win over Watford last month.
“It’s going to come a little bit away from the chairman. The chairman is going to try to stand aside a bit from it. It could be a head of football operations, could be a head of recruitment, could be a director of football.”
Many supporters who were promised that moving to the London Stadium in the summer of 2016 would take the club to “the next level” feel let down by what has been a perceived under-investment in the squad.
West Ham, meanwhile, look certain to have a sizeable police presence at their next home match, against Southampton on March 31, and are scheduled to have further talks with stadium operators LS185 about improving match-day stewarding.
