Paper Round: Pep Guardiola admits he may not be good enough for Man City

The Daily Star, and most of the tabloids, leads with Pep Guardiola's admission that he might not be a good enough coach for Manchester City. Guardiola has said to the press that he may not live up to the expectations upon him: “Now you realise your commentary was so exaggerated, maybe winning 10 winning in a row people expected how good we were." Guardiola even acknowledged that it may end in the sack, saying: "“So the reality is that we were going to build up and I am working on that, but then I will be the first to recognise when I am not able - or we are not able to do that - to then speak with the club to take a solution."

Paper Round's view: Guardiola has seemed a little more on edge at Manchester City, and testier with opponents and journalists, but this isn't really anything new. At Bayern he had a bust-up with club doctors, and at Barcelona he went on a swearing rant at the press after some Jose Mourinho provocation. Each time he still managed to produce an excellent football team, and it's far too early to judge him yet. He needs a win soon, though, and Spurs will be a tough opponent to negotiate.

Dimitri Payet will fly to Marseille this weekend with no expectation of returning to England. His wife is with his three children in France, where she intends to raise them, and Payet is unsure about how to resolve the situation. Marseille have had two bids of around £20 million rejected for Payet, and they are the only club in the hunt for him, so there is no indication of any deal being swift.

Paper Round's view: If this is the situation that Payet is facing, then it makes fools of those who have described him as a mercenary. A player's family - anyone's family - is far more important than being able to earn huge sums of money. It is no surprise that Payet is going to return to France rather than play for West Ham at the time. How he has handled the situation is, though, clearly not the most professional performance.

After a dramatic victory over Bernard Tomic - in the face of hostility from the home crowd - Dan Evans now faces Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the last 16 of the Australian Open. There is the beguiling possibility of an all-British semi-final, should Andy Murray find his way through the next round too. Evans spoke warmly of his former coach Julien Hoferlin, who died last year: “I’m sure he’s watching somewhere. It’s obviously a shame he’s not here. Everybody knows he gave an interview at the end, which he wasn’t that complimentary about me. He said tennis was an interlude. At the time he was probably right.”

Paper Round's view: With Jo Konta and other British players starting to battle their way into the latter stages of major tennis tournaments, it seems that the prominence of British tennis will not end when Andy Murray starts to decline. Evans and Konta are two examples, but there is an expectation that they will now be joined by more Brits, rather than this being a brief, lucky era of success. Evans has done well to take his former coach's message on board.

Ahead of the Six Nation, with a game against France up first, Eddie Jones has said that many younger players are too coddled to be leaders, and that England is in need of finding more players with the ability to take charge during the match and take the responsibility from the coaches in the stands. In the Telegraph, Jones is quoted as saying: “A captain is very important and underneath that we need eight or nine others supporting him that can also do the job. We want a team that can fix a problem on the field and not be looking (to the coaches’ box) in the grandstand.”

Paper Round's view: It is probably impossible to find any man over 50 who does not believe that the younger generation are full of 'snowflakes' and so on. In that sense, what Eddie Jones is saying is nothing new, but sport is something of an exception. Finding players who can lead without support or inspiration from others is a huge advantage during the match, and something that was evident during England's 2003 World Cup success, where almost every player had the strength of personality to make a difference.