That's it from us here on this live text, but there's plenty more football to come this evening, including the latest Champions League qualifiers.

As a reminder, the BBC will be showing Champions League highlights this season so you can watch all the goals from the first legs of the play-off round ties on BBC One on Wednesday (from 22:40 BST).

As we bid you farewell, here is a reminder of today's top stories:

• Sutton warns 'peak' Toney against Saudi move
• 'Shock & despair' - how Southport FC helped a town in mourning
• Wolves make loan bid for Arsenal keeper Ramsdale
• 'Leicester's greatest' - how 'special' Vardy outshone Solanke
• Preston appoint Heckingbottom as boss

Until then, click on the summary points above or to the left to catch up on today's latest stories, and hopefully you'll join us again from 07:00 BST on Wednesday.

Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport football news reporter

Championship side Burnley are interested in signing Manchester United midfielder Hannibal Mejbri.

The Tunisia international out of favour at Old Trafford and spent second half of last season on loan at Sevilla.

The 21-year-old is familiar with the division having spent a spell at Birmingham during the 2022-23 campaign.

Hannibal's addition would bolster Burnley's midfield with Norwegian Sander Berge closing in on a £25m move to Fulham and a medical taking place in London today.

Aston Villa's Rachel Daly was the 2023 winner of the PFA player of the year award after a sparkling return to the WSL with Villa.

Daly is not on the shortlist this year with the likes of Chelsea's Lauren James and Manchester City's Bunny Shaw up for it. But who else has won the award? Here are the last 10 winners:

2023: Aston Villa's Rachel Daly

2022: Chelsea's Sam Kerr

2021: Chelsea's Fran Kirby

2020: Chelsea's Beth England

2019: Arsenal's Vivianne Miedema

2018: Chelsea's Fran Kirby

2017: Man City's Lucy Bronze

2016: Man City's Izzy Christiansen

2015: Chelsea's Ji So-yun

2014: Liverpool's Lucy Bronze

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Lauren James was Chelsea's top scorer in the Women's Super League which saw the Blues lift a fifth consecutive title.

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Manchester City's Bunny Shaw was the Women's Super League's top-scorer last season with 21 goals in 18 games. A broken foot ended her season and City went on to finish second in the league, behind Chelsea on goal difference.

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Chelsea's Lauren James is nominated in both the player of the year and young player of the year awards.

She was the Blues' top scorer in the Women's Super League with Chelsea winning their fifth successive title. One of her main competitors for the player of the year award is Manchester City's Bunny Shaw.

Shaw was the WSL top scorer with 21 goals in 18 games.

In the young player of the year category James is up against players like her Chelsea teammate Aggie Beever-Jones and Manchester City's Jess Park.

Full nominees

Player of the year: Lauren James, Niamh Charles, Erin Cuthbert, Bunny Shaw, Yui Hasegawa and Lauren Hemp

Young player of the year: Lauren James, Khiara Keating, Aggie Beever-Jones, Maya Le Tissier, Jess Park, Grace Clinton

Manchester City's Erling Haaland is shortlisted for 2024 player of the year, with the winner announced this evening. He won the award last year after impressive performances for City.

But who has won the gong before Haaland? Here are the last 10 winners:

2023: Man City's Erling Haaland

2022: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah

2021: Man City's Kevin de Bruyne

2020: Man City's Kevin de Bruyne

2019: Liverpool's Virgil van Dyk

2018: Liverpool's Mohamed Salah

2017: Chelsea's N'Golo Kante

2016: Leicester's Riyad Mahrez

2015: Chelsea's Eden Hazard

2014: Liverpool's Luis Suarez

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Chelsea's Cole Palmer had an impressive maiden season at the Blues and carried the form into the European Championship. He scored in the Euros final for England, a game the team went on to lose 2-1 to Spain.

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Phil Foden has already picked up the Premier League player of the season after aiding Manchester City to a record fourth league title.

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There are two main awards in the men's categories that fans will keep the look out for: player of the year and young player of the year.

The player of the year category is a competitive gong with players like Manchester City's Erling Haaland and Phil Foden and Chelsea's Cole Palmer shortlisted.

Palmer is also on the shortlist for young player of the year after a stellar first campaign with Chelsea. He is up against the likes of Arsenal's Bukayo Saka and Manchester United's Kobbie Mainee for the award.

Full shortlist

Player of the year: Erling Haaland, Phil Foden, Rodri, Cole Palmer, Martin Odegaard and Ollie Watkins

Young player of the year: Cole Palmer, Bukayo Saka, Kobbie Mainoo, Alejandro Garnacho, Michael Olise and Joao Pedro

The Professional Footballers' Association awards will take place on 20 August at Manchester Opera House.

Men's player of the year, men's young player of the year, women's player of the year, women's young player of the year and team of the year in men and women's football will be revealed.

The big gongs will be announced around 10pm BST.

Nick Mashiter
BBC Sport football news reporter

Wolves want to beat Brentford to Burnley defender Dara O'Shea.

A centre-back is a priority for the club having sold captain to Max Kilman to West Ham for £40m.

But Gary O'Neil's spending power is restricted despite also selling Pedro Neto to Chelsea in a deal worth £54m.

O'Shea came through the ranks at Wolves' bitter rivals West Brom and made 107 appearances for the Baggies.

The 25-year-old joined Burnley last summer but was unable to help keep them in the Premier League. O'Shea has played in the Clarets' opening two Championship games, scoring in the 4-1 win at Luton.

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Former England and Chelsea striker Chris Sutton has warned Brentford's Ivan Toney against a potential move to Saudi Arabia this month.

The Bees turned down a £35m bid for the 28-year-old last week, with just a year remaining on his contract.

“At this stage of his career, I think Saudi is a no-no," Sutton told the BBC's Monday Night Club on 5 Live.

"He has proven himself in the Premier League and he has all the attributes. His link up, his physicality, set-piece [ability] and his all-round play have developed really well.

"You can have all the money in the world but this is Ivan Toney at his peak and I would like to see him stay in the Premier League. I would go to Saudi Arabia when I was 35 and past it.

"This is such a waste for Ivan Toney.

"That doesn’t mean he can’t go to Saudi and then come back to the Premier League, but why doesn’t he just wait another season and then get a move? He’s 28, his career was flourishing then he had the ban, but then he had the high of the Euros at the summer.

"He is in a really good place at the moment. From Brentford’s point of view, at £50m, you can understand why they would sell him for that amount with a year left on his contract. Purely from a footballing perspective, that would be such a waste of him going to Saudi. Manchester United are striker-less at this moment in time, he would be a good fit there."

You can listen back to the latest episode of The Monday Night Club in full here.

Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport football news reporter

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Everton have rejected a loan offer for striker Neal Maupay from Ligue 1 side Marseille.

The 28-year-old is into the last 12 months of his contract at Goodison Park and is out of favour under boss Sean Dyche.

The Frenchman spent last season on loan at Brentford, where he scored eight goals in 31 appearances.

He was named on the bench in Everton’s 3-0 defeat by Brighton on Saturday, but is down in the pecking order behind Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Beto and the injured Youssef Chermiti.

Sam

BBC Sounds

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The i's chief football writer, Daniel Storey, has been discussing Chelsea and their expectations for this season.

With Enzo Maresca saying there is no pressure from the club's owners to reach the Champions League this season, Storey questioned

"The other thing that kind of makes me laugh in all of this is that we heard reports last week that Enzo Maresca is not under pressure to get into the Champions League because what he needs to do is gel a squad together and trim the squad, albeit while they are buying 10/11 players every summer which makes it very difficult," Storey said on The Monday Night Club.

"It’s almost as if the model itself has taken over from the actual football, because surely the aim, if you are buying these players, is to get Chelsea back into the Champions League, to get them back into the top four. Otherwise, what is the point? If we are doing is [making this] a hub for trading players in and out, then we might as well all go home.

"The point is to win as many league games as you can and quite frankly, they won five in a row at the end of last season, got rid of the manager.

"I feel for Maresca a bit, but the reason he should feel pressure from Chelsea fans is because they had a manager who was doing okay at the end of last season and that was deemed not good enough. Now, the club are saying there is no pressure to get into the Champions League."

You can listen back to the latest episode of The Monday Night Club in full here.

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Former Manchester City and England midfielder Izzy Christiansen has been discussing the bloated squad Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca has at his disposal.

She said that regardless of how good you are as a manager, trying to keep that number of players happy is a "difficult job".

"As a manger, you are managing staff, you are managing players and you are managing roughly 25 to 30 players in a Premier League squad on average," said Christiansen on The Monday Night Club.

"To keep all of the players happy, buying into the project, training at a level every week that gets them prepared for a Premier League fixture or a European fixture for the teams in the top half of the league, it is difficult to manage those people throughout the course of the season. It is a long old road. To do that, you have to have an incredible personality and an incredible way with people.

"We hear about different management styles and how they work. Maresca is brand new in this football club, he’s got this fantastic reputation. He’s never managed in the Premier League before, but he’s faced now with managing 40 players, which if you put it into perspective, it must be so difficult as a job, no matter how good you are as a manager. Pep Guardiola would struggle managing that amount of players and he’s the best the manager in the world. It’s going to be such a difficult job.

"I know they had a difficult fixture against Manchester City but they need to stay in touch at least, between now and December, with the pack with the elite of the Premier League in order to satisfy where Chelsea want to be. It’s going to be such a tough task."

You can listen back to the latest episode of The Monday Night Club in full here.

Rich, Oxford

The Athletic

That wasn't a cheap shot by Jamie Carragher.

Sources close to Chelsea told the Athletic, external that during Graham Potter's tenure, the first-team squad had become so big that "some players had to sit on the floor during team meetings while others changed for training in the corridor".

And Chelsea have signed more than 20 players since Potter left in April 2023.

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Jamie Carragher won seven major honours with Liverpool and, speaking on Sky Sports' Monday Night Football, he explained what tended to be the model for their squads.

“What I'm saying is, great football teams need competition, but every team I played in, there were seven or eight players who knew they were playing every week,” he said.

“Then you’ve got six or seven players who are fighting for three positions, then you've got another six or seven who know that they’re squad players – that is a healthy squad.

“You’re asking where Joao Felix is going to play – do you know what I want to ask, where is he going to get changed at the training ground? I’m deadly serious.

“If you’ve got 40 players, how are they all in one dressing room? How are you putting a training session on? How are you creating that cohesion?”

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