So what about Guus Hiddink's own future at Chelsea and what does he think of Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini?

"It is up to Chelsea to decide what they do next," says Hiddink. 

"I’ve not talked to or met Manuel Pellegrini. I admire his approach to football. He is a well balanced manager and I respect him, without knowing him."

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Some great stuff from the Chelsea boss, now he moves on to his side's transfer window activity and the news that Pep Guardiola is set to replace Manuel Pellegrini as Manchester City manager.

"There is not much to say because we didn’t want to do much," says Hiddink when asked about the transfer window.

Moving on to Guardiola, Hiddink adds: "I think it is not big news. People expected it as soon as he said he was leaving Bayern and said he wanted to go to the Premier League.

"It is a very attractive league for younger managers to go to. It is beautiful. This will be a little bit different for him in England because there is no specific favourite like there is in Germany or Spain."

Well, we weren't expecting this. Maybe John Terry has a future at Chelsea after all.

Boss Guus Hiddink adds: "The door is not shut - dialogue is always possible.

"He is very fit and he is not what you normally see from a 35-year-old player. Some feel they are getting a bit slower and cannot accept it.

"But there is none of that from John. He is fit. Regardless of the situation he and the club are in, he will be always very professional."

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Pato may have come in, but in the last few days we have learned that captain John Terry will be leaving the club at the end of the season.

Well, that's what we thought, but Guus Hiddink says John Terry may stay at the club.

"I respect his formal language and I like the way he is playing and committed to the team," says Hiddink.

"I have had conversations with him in the past days about all kinds of things. It was sad from John. He is entitled, after his contract expires at the end of the season, to make up his mind, that is true.

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"I don't want to over-value the attention we are giving this but from the club side, I think they still want to have the dialogue to have an open door still. So it was a bit surprising (that he said what he did).

"There was no specific decision made this early. We have to see what is coming up in the transition of the manager as well."

Guus Hiddink starts off his news conference by talking about new loan signing Alexandre Pato, who will be on loan with the club until the end of the season.

"I don’t know if he is still up to playing the game," says Hiddink. "We’ll decide later. He is in, let’s say, the preparation stage but not fully fit.

"The paperwork for the deal is done and formally he is available, but it is another thing physically and mentally. He has hardly done a full training session with the whole team."

This is the scene at Chelsea.

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Hopefully that lonely old empty chair will be filled very soon by the backside of Guus Hiddink, who will give us his view on tomorrow's trip to Watford and, no doubt, the news that Pep Guardiola will be Man City's manager next season.

We'll bring you the press conference as it happens.

How about  this for a stat? (Look away now Liverpool fans...)

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A last snippet from the Steve McClaren chat with the media.

"If you’d said at the start of the window that we’d have signed two young top England internationals in Jonjo Shelvey and Andros Townsend, I wouldn’t have believed you," the Magpies gaffer said.

"Plus we've got two others, I’m delighted with what we’ve done and it shows the ambition of the board and the club.

"We talked about it in summer and we’ve carried it on in this window.

"We’ve got on with our business quietly. We’e got some very good players. It’s a statement of intent about what we want to do and we go forward now with some very good players."

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Promoter Eddie Hearn says he understands why heavyweight Frank Bruno wants to return to boxing, but it would be a “travesty” to let him back in the ring.

Bruno, 54, who won the heavyweight world title in 1996, has revealed he would like to return.

But Bruno has had a long battle with bipolar after he was diagnosed in 2003.

“Frank is national institution. He needs help and support, but not through returning to boxing,” said Hearn. “He won the heavyweight world title. It would be a travesty to see him back in the ring."

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Manchester City call up teenage Nigerian striker Kelechi Iheanacho to their Champions League squad.

Remember Wycombe fan Finn from earlier today (11:53)?

Well, looks like we've got a proud dad in our midst.

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Remember the teaser we set earlier.

Pep Guardiola will become the eighth permanent manager of Manchester City since 2000. Name the other seven?

Well, the answers are in... Joe Royle, Kevin Keegan, Stuart Pearce, Sven Goran-Eriksson, Mark Hughes, Roberto Mancini, Manuel Pellegrini

Well done to all who got it right.

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Last word from the gaffer, and it's about tomorrow night's game.

"Everton have got a fantastic squad with very good players and, on their day, they can beat anybody," says McClaren.

And with that, he's off. Job's a guddun.

Steve McClaren talks about who is and isn't available for tomorrow's game.

He reveals that Paul Dummett has trained "the last three or four days" and that Jack Colback is "very close".

McClaren adds: "There's been a spring in the step in training. The new signings are not just something the club needed but the players too. They are delighted." 

"I think we've done great business. We made four very good signings and I'm absolutely delighted with what we've done," said McClaren, reflecting on his wheeling and dealing.

"We're hoping Doumbia will be available (for tomorrow's match). It's touch and go but if not tomorrow then Saturday."

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Steve McClaren is speaking to the media and he's got plenty to talk about too.

The Magpies travel to Everton in the Premier League tomorrow but many of the questions are about the manager's transfer window business.

He added Roma and Ivory Coast forward Seydou Doumbia in a loan deal on deadline day, to make it four signings in January - with midfielders Jonjo Shelvey, Andros Townsend and Henri Saivet all arriving at the club.

Now there's a headline you don't see every day.

The National Stud breeding site has been closed following the discovery of a neurological herpes virus infection.

The virus was found in the Heath Isolation Unit, in a maiden filly which had arrived from overseas on 20 January and has been fully vaccinated.

The 500-acre National Stud site on the outskirts of Newmarket supports the thoroughbred breeding industry, with five stallions currently based there.

Full story here.

At the time Pep Guardiola was 24, Barcelona's main central midfielder - and the followng year his manager at the Nou Camp was a certain Bobby Robson.

Which all seems a mighty long time ago now.

Talking about Bruno, David Haye said: “I believe if he wants to, he's a grown man and can make his own decisions. But as long as he fights somebody his own age, I’ve got no problem with that.”

Haye said he would have a seniors division for ageing boxers, like they have in tennis.

David Haye says he would not have a problem with Frank Bruno fighting again - as long as the 54-year-old was up against boxers of the same age.

Bruno, a former world heavyweight champion, announced on Monday that he wanted to get in the ring again.

He later tweeted that the British Boxing Board of Control would not grant him a licence.

Haye says Bruno should not be allowed to fight younger boxers but says a bout with other veterans may be an option.

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