Michael Carrick's future as Manchester United head coach will be decided at a meeting in Monaco today, BBC Sport reports. Chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox are expected to recommend that he goes. United are 18th, with one win from their first 10 Premier League games and none since August. A decision may not be announced until Thursday.
Bournemouth defender James Hill has been called up to the England squad for the first time. The 24-year-old centre-back comes in after Ezri Konsa was ruled out of Thursday's Nations League match against Croatia at Wembley with a knee injury. Konsa is due back in full training before Sunday's game against Spain in Madrid. Hill has played every minute of Bournemouth's Premier League season.
Wales have called up uncapped MK Dons striker Aaron Collins for their last two Nations League games after Wrexham forward Kieffer Moore withdrew injured. Collins, 29, has scored 17 goals in 16 games in all competitions for the League One side this season. Craig Bellamy's side play Norway in Oslo on Saturday and Portugal at home next Tuesday.
Scott McTominay says he had treatment to correct an irregular heartbeat two days before Scotland's World Cup win over Haiti in June. The Napoli midfielder, 29, was put to sleep for the procedure, given the all-clear and played in the 1-0 victory. He has since had an ablation, a minimally invasive operation to correct irregular heart rhythms, in Manchester.
Arsene Wenger is considering standing against Gianni Infantino in Fifa's presidential election, BBC Sport reports. The former Arsenal manager is 77. Infantino has faced a backlash over his failed plan to sell commercial stakes in the World Cup to private investors. A university lecturer, Peter Auf der Heyde, is also seeking the five nominations he needs to stand in the March 2027 election.
Oldham Athletic manager Micky Mellon has been charged with misconduct by the Football Association after his red card in Sunday's FA Cup win over Sheffield Wednesday. He was sent off in the 83rd minute for appearing to move his head towards Wednesday forward Callum Slattery in an aggressive manner. Mellon has until Friday to respond.
Vincent Kompany has returned to Bayern Munich's training ground after collapsing at the end of last month. The 40-year-old head coach was diagnosed with meningeal irritation, an inflammation of the membrane around the brain and spinal cord. Aaron Danks has led Bayern to four wins and a draw in his absence. Bayern play Cologne on 20 November.
Manchester City came from behind to win 4-1 at Inter Milan for their first Women's Champions League win of the season. Elisa Bartoli headed Inter ahead on 24 minutes, but Aoba Fujino scored twice before half-time and Casparij and Clinton added goals after the break. In the same competition, Chelsea were held 0-0 by Hacken.
Partick Thistle have been deducted three points and fined £6,000 by the Scottish Women's Premier League for paying players who were registered as amateurs last season. Half of the fine is suspended until the end of the season. The penalty drops Thistle from eighth to ninth in the 10-team table, three points behind Spartans and four ahead of bottom side Aberdeen. The club have accepted the verdict.
Peterborough United boss Robbie Savage has rejected criticism of his work as a co-commentator and pundit, calling it a narrative that is created when his side are not winning. Posh have gone six games without a win in all competitions, including Saturday's 5-0 home FA Cup defeat by Reading, and are 22nd in League One. Savage was appointed on 2 October and won his first two games.
Everton forward Brennan Johnson is set to win his 50th Wales cap against Norway in the Nations League on Saturday. The 25-year-old will become the third-youngest Welshman to reach the mark, after Ethan Ampadu and Chris Gunter. Nottingham-born Johnson played for England at age-grade level before switching to Wales in 2018, and has one major tournament behind him, the 2022 World Cup.
University lecturer Peter Auf der Heyde is seeking nominations to challenge Gianni Infantino for the Fifa presidency in the March 2027 election, and wants a salary of $1 a year if he wins. The South African, who lectures in journalism at Southampton Solent University, needs the backing of five football associations. Candidates have until 18 November to confirm that they are standing.
Manchester United will decide Michael Carrick's future today, 800 miles from Old Trafford, at a meeting in Monaco that was in the diary long before the results turned.
The facts are not in dispute. United are 18th, with one win from their first 10 Premier League games and none since August. Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox, who recommended Carrick as permanent head coach in May after his spell as interim, are now expected to recommend that he goes. Sir Jim Ratcliffe, BBC Sport says, still backs them.
That should trouble United supporters more than the table does. The two executives who judged Carrick ready in May are about to judge him a failure in November, and the owner, by BBC Sport's account, is content to let them. If the recommendation is accepted, the people paying for the mistake will be the head coach and his staff.
Then there is the timing. A decision may not be announced until Thursday, and the club would rather tell Carrick face to face. Every day in between is another day of a club talking about its manager instead of to him.
If United have decided, they should tell Carrick in person and announce it the same day. And whoever comes next, the people who chose Carrick should explain in public why their judgement in November will be better than it was in May.
Five Premier League academy sides played in the EFL Trophy group stage on Tuesday night. Two of them won, and a third that did not play at all went through anyway.
Nottingham Forest U21 won 3-0 at Grimsby Town, promotion-chasers in League Two, with all three goals before half-time at Blundell Park. Brentford U21 won 2-1 at Crawley Town, the bottom club in the Football League, on a night when only a win would do, with a goal in each half from Domeiro Bobb-Semple.
Chelsea U21 went through without kicking a ball when Reading drew at Bristol Rovers and lost the shoot-out.
It was not one-way traffic. Huddersfield Town beat Liverpool U21 4-0 to top their group, and Fulham U21 and Ipswich Town U21 both drew in normal time and lost on penalties, at Stevenage and Colchester.
Across the 17 ties there were 58 goals, and the best had no academy side in it: Chesterfield's 5-3 win at Mansfield, from 3-1 down with 28 minutes left.
The academy sides were supposed to be the Trophy's sideshow. On this evidence they are part of the plot, and Grimsby and Crawley, beaten at home by under-21 sides, have nobody to blame but themselves.
Arsenal are eyeing a potential January move for Real Madrid forward Endrick, using sporting director Andrea Berta's existing relationship with the agency that looks after the 20-year-old Brazilian, reports talkSPORT.
Roma and Sporting are both keen to take Endrick on loan until the end of the season, although the forward is not yet ready to give up on his Real Madrid career, reports AS in Spain.
Manchester United have added two Premier League defenders, Brentford's Republic of Ireland centre-back Nathan Collins, 25, and Fulham's Nigeria defender Calvin Bassey, 26, to their list of possible January targets, reports the Mail.
Arsenal are also looking at Atletico Madrid's Spain midfielder Alex Baena, 25, RB Leipzig's Norway winger Antonio Nusa, 21, and Bournemouth's French forward Eli Junior Kroupi, 20, as potential winger signings, reports the Independent.
Ian Maatsen, 24, Emiliano Buendia, 29, Amadou Onana, 25, and Ross Barkley, 32, are all set to sign new contracts with Aston Villa in the near future, reports the Telegraph.
Newcastle will not pursue a move for Al-Ahli's 30-year-old striker Ivan Toney, even though he played for them from 2015 to 2018 and for current Magpies boss Matthias Jaissle at the Saudi club, reports the i.