Paper Round: Joe Hart told to leave Manchester City

Out-of-favour Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart has been advised to leave the club, according to the Mail on Sunday. They reckon that director of football Txiki Begiristain has recommended that he head off before the current transfer window closes.

Paper Round's view: Seems about right. Pep Guardiola doesn't want to get drawn into an undignified slanging match, so Begiristain has the unedifying task of nudging Hart out of the door. City want a new first-choice goalkeeper; Hart wants first-team football. Putting this little saga to an end is best all round.

Is this what's referred to as "shade"? New Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has declared that his first two games in charge of Manchester United have been more impressive than the team's collated displays of the last two years - obviously before his time, and under the regime of Louis van Gaal. That's according to the Sunday Star, who report that Mourinho suggested that any neutral observer would say the same.

Paper Round's view: Leaving aside the logistics of whether or not he saw every single United display during van Gaal's reign, it's always difficult to know whether Mourinho is being entirely serious or just feeding his own 'special one' myth. And even if he does think it...well, there's supposed to be some kind of solidarity between managers, isn't there? Actually saying this stuff out loud is a touch undignified.

West Ham chairman David Gold says the club had to move to the Olympic Stadium to become a Premier League 'big fish', according to the Mirror. Staying at Upton Park wasn't an option because of the lack of infrastructure in the area, he says, so a new home was essential.

Paper Round's view: Well, perhaps - but there are more ways to do that than parachute into the Olympic legacy and an area already occupied by a professional football club which now has fears for its future, worried that the 'big fish' is about to gobble them up.

Olympic silver medallist Jessica Ennis-Hill is just about ready to retire, according to the Mail on Sunday. She's said that if she continues to compete, it'll only be for another year so that she can be part of the world championships in London in 2017.

Paper Round's view: This has seemed inevitable for a while, no matter how much the breathless TV coverage tried to persuade her that she could make it to another Olympic Games. Coach Toni Minichello was so reticent to comment during interviews that Ennis-Hill's retirement was a foregone conclusion. It's possible that her official retirement announcement may even come before the end of the year - meaning no major, formal UK farewell. Although she might be in with a shot at the New Year's Honours List.