'Wolves track new Aberdeen boss Thelin' - gossip

Wolverhampton Wanderers are tracking new Aberdeen manager Jimmy Thelin, while former West Ham United boss David Moyes is also a potential replacement, should Gary O'Neil fail to secure better results during the forthcoming more favourable run of fixtures for the Premier League club. (The Sun)

Heart of Midlothian have narrowed their shortlist for a new head coach down to just two candidates - an Englishman and an overseas coach - and the Scottish Premiership club could make a decision within the next two days if terms and an agreement can be reached. (Daily Record)

Former Hearts head coach Ian Cathro retains the backing of Estoril investors despite the 38-year-old Scot's side sitting fourth bottom of the Portuguese top flight after only one win in eight league matches. (A Bola)

Hearts chief executive Andrew McKinlay says he would happily reopen contract talks with Scotland striker Lawrence Shankland, whose current deal ends next summer, but warned he will never smash the club’s wage structure to keep the 29-year-old club captain. (Daily Record)

Scotland midfielder Kenny McLean says it only took one discussion with new Norwich City manager Johannes Hoff Thorup to persuade him to sign a new contract this summer despite the 32-year-old being linked with Rangers. (The Herald)

A bookmaker has made Rangers one of the favourites to sign Jordan Henderson should the 34-year-old midfielder leave Ajax, where he has had limited game time, but the Ibrox club would struggle to match the Englishman's £85,000 per week salary. (Daily Record)

Las Palmas is a possible destination for Kieran Tierney as Arsenal look to let the out-of-favour 27-year-old Scotland left-back leave on loan in January after his recovery from injury. (Grada3)

New St Johnstone manager Simo Valakari has handed a trial to Bozo Mikulic, the 27-year-old Croatian defender with whom he worked at Auda in Latvia and who is a free agent after leaving Albanian club Partizani Tirana. (Daily Record)

St Johnstone will receive £25,000 in training compensation following Trinidad & Tobago midfielder Dan Phillips' summer move to Stevenage. (The Courier)

The Scottish Premiership sits sixth worldwide for the amount of expatriate players, behind Cyprus, Turkey, Greece, United Arab Emirates and Italy, with the CIES football observatory stating that 57.4% of minutes are, on average, played by "footballers who grew up in a different association than the one they currently play in". (The National)

Controversial businessman and former Dundee board member Giovanni di Stefano claims to have opened talks with current owner Tim Keyes over a shock return to the Scottish Premiership club. (Scottish Sun)

Dundee are refusing to engage with former director Giovanni di Stefano after the 69-year-old claimed to be in talks with owner Tim Keyes about a return, with the convicted fraudster saying he was "potentially the comeback king of Dundee Football Club" in a video shared on X. (The Courier)

Scotland right-back Nathan Patterson took a sizeable step towards a return to first-team action when the 22-year-old completed 90 minutes for Everton's under-21s against their counterparts from League One side Reading on Monday. (The Athletic)

Celtic midfielder Reo Hatate has insisted he has no complaints about being dragged halfway around the world after being called up for Japan and not even making the bench for World Cup qualifiers against China and Bahrain last month. (Glasgow Times)