Mauricio Pochettino is ready to accept an offer to become Manchester United head coach, BBC Sport reports. United have opened talks with the USA manager about replacing Michael Carrick, who is expected to be relieved of his duties within 48 hours. United would have to pay $10m (£7.5m) to release Pochettino from the contract he signed in August.
Liverpool should have had a penalty when Jurrien Timber pulled Alexander Isak's shirt in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Anfield on 1 November, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has ruled. The panel voted 4-1 that the penalty should have been given and 3-2 that the VAR should have intervened. It was unanimous that Timber should not have been sent off. 'There is a clear grab of the shirt,' Liverpool manager Andoni Iraola said after the game.
Centre-back David Bates, who plays for Amedspor in Turkey, has been called into the Scotland squad for the Nations League games against North Macedonia and Switzerland in place of Luis Binks, who has withdrawn. Bates, 30, won all four of his caps under Alex McLeish while at Hamburg in 2018-19. He has started all 11 of Amedspor's games this season, and they are third in the Turkish Super Lig. North Macedonia visit Hampden on Friday.
Scotland will be without captain Caroline Weir, who has 32 goals in 122 appearances, for their World Cup play-off final against Sweden after a setback in her recovery from a muscle injury. She has not played for Lyon since pulling up in the warm-up before last month's win over Czech Republic. Aston Villa forward Mia McAulay is also out. Sweden visit Paisley on 1 December, with the second leg in Stockholm on 5 December.
Grahame Morris, the Labour MP for Easington, has tabled a parliamentary motion calling for legal limits on repetitive heading in football training because of concerns about brain injury. Researchers have found footballers are three and a half times more likely to die from a neurodegenerative disease than the general population. The motion backs a petition submitted in September by the charity Head Safe Football. Early Day Motions are not guaranteed a debate.
Former Pro Ref referee observer Brian Curson has been suspended for nine weeks and fined £200 by an FA commission for discriminatory remarks after a League One match between Luton Town and Rotherham United in November 2025. Curson, who no longer works for Pro Ref, said he did not recall making the comments, but the commission was satisfied that they had been made. He must also attend an education programme.
Bristol City will give head coach Michael Skubala the chance to turn round their home form, chief executive Charlie Boss says. City have lost their last four Championship games at Ashton Gate, the latest 5-0 to Norwich City on Saturday, when fans made their feelings known, and are 17th, with two wins from their last 10 games. Skubala, who won League One with Lincoln City last season, joined in May. City go to second-placed Middlesbrough on 21 November.
Brad Friedel, Shrewsbury Town's new sporting director, says the League Two club 'hit all the boxes' after a search that took in clubs in Turkey, Poland, Portugal and the Netherlands. Scott Davidson's Biscayne ST LLC consortium, which includes the former Blackburn and USA goalkeeper, completed its takeover on Monday, buying 87.4% of the shares from long-time owner Roland Wycherley. Friedel, 55, says he is moving to the town and will be at training every day.
Former Bromley manager Andy Woodman says the club acted too late in the summer transfer window and left him with signings who 'weren't good enough' for League One. Woodman, who led Bromley to two promotions in five and a half years, was sacked last month after two wins from their first 10 League One games. 'We probably got to League One too quickly,' he said. He says he feels no animosity towards the club.
Manchester City started the season under Enzo Maresca with a record seven straight Premier League wins, but defeats by Aston Villa, Brighton and Nottingham Forest have left them third, six points behind leaders Arsenal, BBC Sport reports. City are also awaiting the outcome of their appeal after being found guilty in September of breaking the Premier League's financial rules. The international break gives Maresca time to work.
Manchester United have not yet said that Michael Carrick is going. Everyone else has.
BBC Sport reports that Carrick is expected to be relieved of his duties within 48 hours, that United have opened talks with Mauricio Pochettino, and that Pochettino is ready to accept. The United States, who appointed him in August, are said to have a succession plan ready. Only the club that employs Carrick is keeping quiet. United have been here with Pochettino before. They spoke to him in 2018, when Jose Mourinho was sacked, again in 2022 and again in 2024. Each time they went another way. This time they are 18th, with one win from their first 10 Premier League games. There is a case for Pochettino and a case against, and both will be made loudly. What cannot be defended is a manager learning his fate from the newspapers while the people who appointed him in May meet in Monaco.
United should tell Carrick first and the public straight after, and if Pochettino is the man, pay the $10m and let him start before the international break ends. Another week of briefings helps nobody.
The EFL Trophy's northern group stage ended on Wednesday night with two games and very little riding on either of them. At Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday and Accrington Stanley were both already through. The only thing left to settle was who would top Northern Group A and get a home tie in the last 32, and League Two Accrington took it with a 4-0 win. At Oakwell, Barnsley were already out and Oldham Athletic already through. Oldham made nine changes from their FA Cup side; Wednesday gave a debut to Louis Poland and a first start to Denny Oliver.
The crowds told their own story: 5,472 at Hillsborough, 1,025 at Oakwell. What the night did offer was a look at the fringes. Tom Hill scored his first goal for Oldham, and Vimal Yoganathan, on as a substitute, scored again for Barnsley.
The group stage has done its job of finding the qualifiers. On nights like this it does little else, and the clubs, judging by their team sheets, know it.
Ryan Porteous has been recalled by Scotland head coach Sebastien Pocognoli after an injury to Swansea City's Stephen Welsh. The 27-year-old centre-back, who has made 52 appearances for Los Angeles, last played for his country against Greece in March 2025. He came through at Hibernian and played more than 80 games for Watford.
A Borussia Dortmund supporters' group has criticised Felix Nmecha's goal celebration in Saturday's 2-1 win over Elversberg, saying it referenced a campaign by the Christian group Ballers in God that it says is at odds with the club's values. Nmecha, who scored both goals, said there were misunderstandings and that the celebration was not meant to promote himself or any organisation.
Arsenal have joined Chelsea and Liverpool in contacting Bournemouth about a possible move for England midfielder Alex Scott. The 23-year-old's contract at Bournemouth runs until the summer of 2028, reports the i.
US Soccer want former Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola to take over as head coach of the USA men's team if Mauricio Pochettino leaves them to become the next Manchester United manager, reports talkSPORT.
Chelsea, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are monitoring Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi, 27, for a January move, reports the Independent. But Zubimendi has told Marca he is 'happy' in London and has not contacted anyone about a move.