Ian Kennedy
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Everton could have both John Stones and Seamus Coleman fit for Sunday’s Merseyside derby against Liverpool at Goodison Park after manager Roberto Martinez confirmed both players were close to featuring against West Brom on Monday. 

Kevin Mirallas remains suspended following his red card against Swansea.

Dafydd Pritchard
BBC Sport Wales

Taulupe Faletauwill become the second youngest Wales player to reach 50 caps when he faces Fiji on Thursday.  

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Barcelona midfielder Javier Mascherano faces tax fraud charges after Spain's authorities filed a complaint against him.

The Superior Court of Justice in Cataluna has confirmed to the PA Sport agency that the Argentina international faces counts of defrauding the Spanish tax authorities.

However, a Spanish judge has yet to rule on whether or not the 31-year-old Mascherano's case will go to trial.

The South American is alleged to have concealed earnings related to his image rights in 2011 and 2012 worth £1.1m by using companies set up in the United States and in Portugal.

Spain's tax law allows a player to sell up to 15% of his image rights to a company. 

Which one player would you want eleven of in your team?

Rich Cawser: An 11 man team of Steven Gerrard in his prime would have been unstoppable. A "complete" player in the most literal sense.

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Jake Powell: It was felt Kinkladze at times WAS the only player in a blue shirt of 1996

Joe O'Hara: Neuer, you'd never concede a goal and he is ace of penalties and he's good even outside the box on his ramblings.

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Argentina national team doctor Donato Villani has said Lionel Messi might return to action from his knee injury sooner than the eight weeks the Barcelona forward is expected to be out for, reports AS., external

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger and his players cannot afford any slips or attitude problems when they take on Olympiakos at Emirates Stadium. Having lost their first group game to Dinamo Zagreb - and with Bayern Munich already looking the strongest side in the group - only victory will do for the Gunners to avoid piling serious pressure on themselves.

The good news for Wenger is that Arsenal are in form after wins at Spurs in the Capital One Cup and at Leicester City in the Premier League, where Alexis Sanchez returned to his best with a hat-trick. 

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

Jose Mourinho's reign at Chelsea has been characterised by his determination to defend his players - but it is clear his patience is running thin after another poor performance when they had to come from two down to scrape a draw at 

Before the Champions League group match at former club FC Porto he questioned his players in blunt terms when he said: "Clearly it's an attitude perspective of some individuals.

"And when you have individuals with that unstable attitude in terms of motivation, desire and commitment you will pay."  

We reckon the Murray brothers would be pretty impressed with this.

The artist, Henry Fraser, is paralysed from the shoulders down after suffering a dislocated neck in 2009 at the age of 17. He did the above painting using his mouth to grip the brush.

Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson fought with Sir Alex Ferguson over selecting Wayne Rooney for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Before the tournament the Manchester United striker fractured a metatarsal bone in his right foot, and in a BBC documentary to air next week the Swede has admitted he was under pressure not to pick him.

"It became a fight between Ferguson and myself," said Eriksson..

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"He just said 'don't dare take him to the World Cup, that's it Sven... you don't take him'. But there would have been a revolution in England if I didn't pick him. They would have thrown me into the sea."

Rooney added: "Looking back, if I was to go back in time, I probably would have sat out the World Cup because it was a big ask to get fit after six weeks out."

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Birmingham City have signed teenage defender Emmanuel Mbende following his summer exit from Borussia Dortmund.

The 19-year-old, who has been on trial with Blues for a month, has signed up for the rest of the 2015-16 season.

"He's about six foot four wide and six foot four high. There's a lot to work on because of his attributes," Blues boss Gary Rowett told BBC WM 95.6.

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We suspect Sir Alex might take said hairdryer to you, Stephen, for spelling his surname incorrectly...

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Former Rotherham United manager Steve Evans has revealed how tears were shed when it was agreed he would leave the Championship club.

The 52-year-old parted company with the Millers on Monday following a meeting with chairman Tony Stewart.

"At the end of the meeting we hugged and there were some tears. It was a very emotional moment, for someone to watch his chairman shed tears and know that in the next few hours we were going to formally part," he told BBC Radio Sheffield.

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BBC Sport

Bastian Schweinsteiger was alongside Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal, and I asked the German World Cup winner about Wayne Rooney's admission he liked to write poetry.  

Schweinsteiger and van Gaal both laughed, with the former Bayern Munich player saying he doesn't think Rooney reads it to the team, but as he doesn't understand scouse he is not entirely sure.

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...former Chelsea striker Andriy Shevchenko, who turns 39 on Tuesday. 

Also celebrating are IAAF president Lord Sebastian Coe (59), former Wales rugby captain Gareth Davies (60), former Dynamo Kiev, Arsenal’s Germany defender Per Mertesacker (31) and British skeleton Olympic gold medallist Amy Williams (33).

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BBC Sport

Louis van Gaal says Manchester United are aiming to reach the final of the Champions League either this season or next.

His contract expires at Old Trafford in 2017, and while his intention is to finish in two years because of a promise to his wife, he admitted in football you never know.

The Dutchman says United need to win their home games starting against Wolfsburg to progress in the compeition, after losing on the opening match day away at PSV Eindhoven.

Louis van Gaal has always maintained he will leave Manchester United when his contract expires in 2017, but appeared a little less definitive when asked today....

"Normally I shall leave after next year, but what is normal in our football world you never know. I promised my wife I would go to our paradise in Portugal. It will be very hard to deny her that promise. It shall be very hard to my wife."

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Wolfsburg's director of sport Klaus Allofs has revealed that Kevin de Bruyne is earning four times as much with Manchester City as he was getting at the Bundesliga club.

The Belgian moved to City for £55m and Allofs told Die Welt newspaper: "When a player comes to you with an offer from a club willing to pay him four times as much as he is already earning, then you've got to consider what's going through his head.

"We had looked for a solution which would have allowed us to keep hold of him for at least another year, but when that was not possible, it was clear that we would sell him.

"Nobody could guarantee him that he would receive the same offer again."