Brentford

Brentford manager Thomas Frank on this season's expectations: "The aim for us has never been to just survive. We always want to aim as high as possible. But from Brentford, with the second lowest budget, to stay in the league is an unbelievable success. To be close to even finishing in the top 10? It shouldn't be possible. To be on a European hunt? That's remarkable.

"We are not on a European hunt but we want to end as high as possible, so we badly want to win tomorrow against Villa.

"If we end there, I'll take it. It is not possible to end there and say 'no thank you, the squad is not big enough, could we please wait a season'."

Fulham

Marco Silva on Leeds: "We know their weaknesses and their strengths. We respect them as a team. In the Premier League, any team is a challenge."

On the win at Everton: "Everton have been strong at home under their new manager. We showed our quality to go there and win that football match."

Fulham

Fulham boss Marco Silva, speaking before his side host Leeds on Saturday, has reacted to reaching 40 points for the season: "It’s our mentality right now. We want to try and get the points to make another story at this football club."

On Neeskens Kebano's return: "Good news for Kebano. It's good to see him work well and train well. He can be involved in the squad list for tomorrow."

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham's Cristian Stellini joked after the start of his news conference was interrupted by a powercut: "We could train. We have to do this, but it is important to have OUR power, another electric power."

Tottenham Hotspur

More from Cristian Stellini on Tottenham's preparation for their trip to Newcastle: "We've had one week to recharge after the last game and we had a good week.

"We are well prepared to play this type of game, it will be tough and it is never easy in the Premier League.

"This is one of the worst stadiums to play in terms of the atmosphere power, but we have a good squad and I believe in the players at the club. We are prepared to play."

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham's interim manager Cristian Stellini on whether defeat to Newcastle will end their top-four hopes: "I think until the maths gives us reason to stop believing, until that moment we will continue to believe, continue to push and play to reach [top four]."

Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham's interim manager Cristian Stellini on the resignation of the club's managing director of football Fabio Paratici: "It has not affected our preparations as Fabio was far from here for a couple of weeks so nothing has changed in this kind of situation.

"Humanly, we are all very close to Fabio, all of us. It was a tough period for him and now the final result is very sad for everyone, for him and his family. Humanly we are very close to him.

"It is a tough moment, so I want to be close to him and all my heart is with him.

"This does not affect what is happening on the pitch because we are professional. It is not the type of situation that is a shock, we were prepared."

We will return now to those Premier League news conferences, starting with Tottenham's interim manager Cristian Stellini...

England captain Leah Williamson joins an ever-expanding list of top women footballers to suffer an ACL injury which includes Arsenal team-mate Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema and Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas.

The cause of Williamson's injury, suffered during Arsenal's defeat this week at Manchester United, is not yet clear.

But, once again, there are renewed calls from players, fans and managers for more research into why this type of injury is more prevalent in female footballers than male.

England striker Chloe Kelly has said the "fear" and "negativity" around ACL injuries "needs changing".

So what is being done to try and reduce the risk?

Click on this link to find out more.

More message of support for Leah Williamson are flooding in on social media after news of her ACL injury was confirmed by Arsenal.

Here is a selection:

Manchester City women's manager Gareth Taylor, external: "It's not good for Leah or Arsenal or England... Best wishes go to Leah... It’ll be a tough moment for her, especially at this stage of the season."

Women's Super League, external: "Wishing you a speedy recovery, Leah."

Fifpro, external: "As news of Leah Williamson's ACL injury breaks, the words of her England team-mate Beth Mead have never rung truer. More. Research. Needed."

Manchester United Women, external: "We're so sorry to hear this, Leah — we're all with you."

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Beth Mead, Leah Williamson's England and Arsenal team-mate, who is also fighting to recover from a serious knee injury, has tweeted, external a similar message of support to that of the England camp, saying: "We are with you every step of the way @leahcwilliamson even if I have to be quiet some days in rehab. We got you girl, all the love and strength in the world."

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Arsenal and England captain Leah Williamson is set to miss this summer's World Cup and the rest of the season with an anterior cruciate ligament injury.

Williamson went down in the first half of Arsenal's 1-0 Women's Super League loss to Manchester United on Wednesday.

"Leah is set for an extended spell on the sidelines," Arsenal said in a statement on Friday.

England's opening World Cup match with Haiti takes place on 22 July.

More on this story to follow here.

West Ham United

David Moyes on Declan Rice: "When you're 23 or 24 like Dec is, you should be learning all the time and whenever he goes away with England he comes back an improved player.

"We're delighted to have him playing so well for us and long may that continue. I've talked about his value and it's up to other people to make that judgement."

On Gary O'Neil, the former West Ham man in charge of Bournemouth: "He's done a brilliant job for Bournemouth. I see a really good team and they're just about safe and I think he's done a great job.

"They have got games in their run-in where I can see them picking up points, which is important. They've won four out of six and you have to give them a lot of credit for how they're doing."

West Ham United

West Ham boss David Moyes has been speaking to the media before his side travel to Bournemouth on Sunday. First, he was asked about team news: "I think everyone is okay. The medical team will feedback to me later today. Hopefully, we're all fine.

On the win over Gent in the Europa Conference League: "It's always nice to reach the semi-final of any cup competition so it was really enjoyable to see the boys playing well and scoring goals. We can park it for a few weeks and now our focus is Premier League fixtures."

England

England women have tweeted, external about Leah Williamson's ACL injury, saying: "We are with you every step of the way."

Liverpool

A final word from Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on Mohamed Salah: "Last week when I heard that Mo had scored the most left-footed goals in Premier League history, I would say that is insane.

"When I see the names below - Fowler, Van Persie, Giggs - these are Premier League greats, absolutely, so that is massive.

"Surpassing Robbie in another stat - I know he likes these kinds of things and this will fill his tank for the game.

"I also know that his assist record is pretty good too. He doesn't forget that it is important to or nice to break records, but it is much more important to win the game and sometimes pass the ball rather than shoot yourself."

Arsenal

Arsenal statement: We can confirm that Leah Williamson suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in our Barclays Women’s Super League match against Manchester United on Wednesday night.

Leah was substituted in the first half of the game at Leigh Sports Village and underwent further assessment on Thursday to determine the extent of the injury.

Leah will now begin a period of rehabilitation and is set for an extended spell on the sidelines. She will undergo surgery in due course.

Everyone at Arsenal will be supporting Leah closely throughout the journey ahead and we would ask that her privacy is respected at this time.

Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp gives an injury update on Roberto Firmino: "Bobby has picked up a muscle injury we will see how long that takes. It's not too serious but he is definitely out for tomorrow. this week we have two more games - I would say they are impossible as well, then we will see. Then we will have to take it day by day."

Liverpool

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp on Trent Alexander-Arnold's more attacking role in the team: "In each position Trent has played for us he has always been a super important player. A slightly advanced role that he is playing at the moment suits him really well. It's a challenge for everybody else to cover the spaces when we lose the ball theoretically, but with him there we didn't lose that many balls as well. It's not written in stone, he can play in different ways but how he has played in the last two games has been really, really good."

Liverpool

Jurgen Klopp on Saturday's Premier League match at home to Nottingham Forest: "The only thing that would give us any kind of chance [to resurrect our season] is by winning an awful lot of games. If we don't do that that we cannot really talk, but I don't like to talk about what might happen if we win the next four - it makes no sense. So our focus is on Nottingham."