Paper Talk

• Crystal Palace are ready to move Neil Warnock upstairs - if they can find the right man to replace him.
• QPR's Rio Ferdinand could face a massive fine after being charged with Twitter abuse by the FA for the second time.
• Sunderland are ready to snap up French right-back Anthony Reveillere.
• Kit Symons has told Fulham he is prepared to work with a director of football if he becomes boss.
• Russ Wilcox has been lined up for a quick return to management at York.
• Neil Lennon wants Hull's Stephen Quinn as his first signing at Bolton.
• New Leeds boss Darko Milanic is plotting a £1.5m raid for his former Maribor favourite Agim Ibraimi.

• Luis Suarez says Liverpool would not have made a title bid last season or booked a Champions League place without him.
• Real Madrid were forced to sell Angel di Maria to Manchester United as they could not afford to pay him.
• Stoke striker Peter Crouch reckons he could still do the business for England.
• Southampton are facing another raid on their boss after Ronald Koeman was touted for the Holland job.
• Chelsea have struck a deal to sign a 13-year-old French keeper who is already over six foot tall.
• Ipswich's ace young full-back Tyrone Mings has caught the eye of Everton boss Roberto Martinez.

• Roy Hodgson was last night branded a dinosaur for his handling of Raheem Sterling.
• Arsenal have stepped up the chase for £17m-rated Samba star Talisca in case Lukas Podolski quits in January.
• Luis Suarez still insists he did nothing wrong in his race row with Patrice Evra.

• Dietmar Hamann believes that the main reason England will not win another World Cup in the near future is that "player power" is too strong in this country.
• Yaya Toure is set to be rested for Manchester City's clash with Tottenham on Saturday as Manuel Pellegrini faces a juggling act with his jet-lagged stars after the international break.
• Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has been handed a boost ahead of his side's trip to Crystal Palace by the return to fitness of Didier Drogba.

• Newcastle winger Jonas Gutierrez has run the Buenos Aires Marathon to raise money for a cancer charity back home in Argentina.
• West Ham are hoping to hold talks with defender Winston Reid over a new contract next week.
• Tottenham are sweating on the fitness of Nacer Chadli and Hugo Lloris after the pair picked up injuries while on international duty.

• Arsenal have suffered another setback after Tomas Rosicky became the fourth of their players to pick up an injury on international duty in the last week.

• Paul Scholes says Roy Hodgson is right that young players like Raheem Sterling do not need a two-day recovery after matches and that the issue has been made by Liverpool's complaints over Daniel Sturridge's treatment.
• Officials will decide next month weather to postpone the Africa Cup of Nations because of the spread of Ebola.

• Despite protests from fans' groups about the rising cost of football, the average price of the cheapest ticket across the English game has risen by 13 per cent since 2011.