Today we are asking how important has this January transfer window been to your season? Are your team's chances of avoiding relegation or earning promotion dependent on keeping or adding certain players? Which deals are you expecting before Friday's deadline?

Please send in your views using the Twitter hashtag #bbcsportsday or the BBC Sport Facebook, external page.

Moseph Venomly:, external ITV reporting Spurs have made a bid for Javier Hernandez! Exactly the player we need up front.

Football Column:, external Liverpool's lack of activity is a big concern. Top four finish looks really dicey.

Jamie Bishop:, external Cabaye out De Jong in. Come on Kinnear we will need a centre mid now and Vurnon is not the answer!

For the midweek Premier League fixtures, BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against former badminton world champion Gail Emms.

The Spurs fan won a silver medal in the mixed doubles with Nathan Robertson at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and followed that with a world title in 2006, but she retired from the sport after the Beijing Olympics in 2008. However, she is making a comeback at next month's English National Championships in Milton Keynes.

Looking ahead to tonight's Merseyside derby, the 5 live commentary match at Anfield, and Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers says: "It is a very important game as a victory puts us four points clear. Our home form over the course of the season has been brilliant.

"When I came in here Everton had finished above Liverpool and last season finished above us also. Everton's basis is a good defensive record, still stable from what they have been over a few years - we are a team who have upped the ante in terms of our offensiveness."

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Mercedes unveil their new car ahead of the start of pre-season testing.

With the biggest regulation changes for a generation, the car has an elegantly sloping front, in response to regulations that demand a lower nose for safety reasons.

They have also integrated the camera mounts on the nose into the aerodynamic design, by mounting them on R-shaped pillars on the top of the nose cone. This may cause some of their rivals to question whether that is allowed.

More from Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, on the subject on new additions in the transfer window: "We have to wait and see, there is certainly nothing imminent. I wouldn't bring in a player here in January unless he was a really outstanding player who we could get on a loan that is going to really help."

Borussia Moenchengladbach's Twitter feed, external reports that striker Luuk de Jong has not trained with the club today and is on his way to Newcastle for a medical.

The 23-year-old has been linked with a move to Newcastle for some time.

Japan will have their largest-ever Winter Olympics team travelling to a Games after naming a team of 113 athletes for next month's Games in Sochi.

Their oldest competitor will be ski jumper Noriaki Kasai, who at 41 will be participating in his sixth Winter Olympics. The youngest is 15-year-old snowboarder Ayumu Hirano.

Today we are asking how important has this January transfer window been to your season? Are your team's chances of avoiding relegation or earning promotion dependent on keeping or adding certain players? Which deals are you expecting before Friday's deadline?

Please send in your views using the Twitter hashtag #bbcsportsday or the BBC Sport Facebook, external page.

Jamie Hoskins:, external Genuinely think Cabaye is what United have been crying out for rather than Mata. Surprised they didn't go in for him.

Jay:, external Newcastle have made it fairly clear that they prefer being a mid table team. Pity, since they're just a point off Man Utd.

Matt Munz:, external Liverpool need a defensive midfielder badly and someone who can play LB. Ayre pull your thumb out!

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Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers with some thoughts on midfielder Joe Allen ahead of tonight's Merseyside derby with Everton at Anfield, which kicks off at 20:00 GMT and can be heard live on BBC Radio 5 live.

The Wales international missed the weekend's FA Cup win at Bournemouth with a hamstring injury and is a doubt for the game.

"We need to see with Joe," Rodgers says. "He was on the training field on Monday but it is a case of assessing as to whether it will push him too much for this game because we don't want another injury in a key area."

More from England T20 captain Stuart Broad ahead of the three-match series against Australia.

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"If you look at the hard facts and say we've been here for three months and we've won one game and Australia have outplayed us in pretty much every single game, you'd expect morale to be pretty low," he added.

"But we've had meetings today, and coming into training, the guys are really confident. There's a lot of excitement around this group, and as we know in T20 cricket, if you do have confidence and you do enjoy your cricket you do play pretty well so that's our plan."

England T20 captain Stuart Broad wants to leave Australia on a high by winning the final three matches of a difficult tour.

The Test side, captained by Alastair Cook, were whitewashed 5-0 and the one-day team were beaten 4-1 in their five-match series while the three-match Twenty20 contest gets under way in Hobart on Wednesday before moving on to Sydney and Melbourne.

"In T20 you pick guys who are playing well and in form and we've got guys here the likes of [Luke] Wright, [Michael] Lumb and [Alex] Hales coming into the squad who have played some really good Big Bash cricket - their confidence is high and they've brought a lot of confidence into the group, and there's a real nice buzz around the changing room," said Broad.

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has donated £96,000 to the Hillsborough Family Support Group ahead of Tuesday's Merseyside derby.

The group, along with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, has been leading the fight to discover what happened at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough where 96 Liverpool fans died, among them Gerrard's cousin Jon-Paul Gilhooley, 10.

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There will be commentary of the big Merseyside derby in tonight's 5 live Sport with Mark Pougatch from 19:00 GMT, which comes live from Old Trafford, where there will be updates from Manchester United's match with Cardiff.

The venerable duo Mike Ingham and Alan Green will be at Anfield, with summaries from former Republic of Ireland international Kevin Kilbane. Over on 5 live sports extra from 19:30 GMT, Ian Brown is your commentator for Southampton against leaders Arsenal, with analysis by much-travelled former striker Steve Claridge.

Former Everton midfielder Lee Carsley is asked on 5 live Breakfast if tonight's Merseyside derby is the most important for a decade and says: "Definitely yes. I went to the derby near the start of the season and thought it was a fantastic game to watch, lots of goals in it, lots of attacking play. I thought both teams tried to win the game and hopefully it will be the same tonight."

Former London Broncos forward Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook signs a new contract with St Helens that will keep him at Langtree Park until the end of 2016.

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The 28-year-old prop has made 83 Super League appearances for Saints since joining them ahead of the 2011 season on a four-year deal which was due to run out this year.

"Louie is a very good player who is popular amongst his team-mates," Saints coach Nathan Brown said. "He also has a lot of scope for improvement and his career is on the rise."

The 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships are confirmed for Eindhoven, the Netherlands, from 4-10 August.

The meeting, which will take place at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Stadium - which hosted the 2010 World Championships - is expected to draw 500 athletes from nearly 40 countries looking to put in strong performances ahead of the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, and two years into their preparations for Rio 2016.

Today we are asking how important has this January transfer window been to your season? Are your team's chances of avoiding relegation or earning promotion dependent on keeping or adding certain players? Which deals are you expecting before Friday's deadline?

Please send in your views using the Twitter hashtag #bbcsportsday or the BBC Sport Facebook, external page.

Matt Collingwood:, external Alan Pardew must dread the transfer window. Every time it comes around, he ends up losing a key player.

Ian Whittaker:, external 20m pounds in the bank. Come on Joe Kinnear you can do something now.

Jasper:, external When are Liverpool going to start buying? We need a winger and a defensive midfielder.

Ahead of the midweek Premier League action, BBC Sport's Robbie Savage looks at the tactical decisions which could decide three of the key fixtures.

Savage focuses on Everton's injury problems, where Juan Mata will figure for Manchester United and why Spurs should not sit back against free-scoring Manchester City.

In Jerez in Spain, the first pre-season testing session is taking place ahead of the new Formula One season.

Nine teams are taking part in the session and you can follow the latest on the BBC Sport website as the drivers get to grips with new cars, new engines, new fuel limits and new noses.

It is a busy night of Premier League action tonight with six matches, including the Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton at Anfield, which can be heard live on BBC Radio 5 live.

But there is also Manchester United against Cardiff, Newcastle visit Norwich, Southampton are at home to league leaders Arsenal, Swansea face Fulham and Crystal Palace take on Hull.

You will be able to catch up with all of the latest on the BBC Sport website.