All the latest football rumours from today's newspapers.

• Fulham's Brian McBride will not be back from his dislocated knee until January. (Express)



• Crystal Palace teenager John Bostock is ready to reject a move to Chelsea to sign his first pro contract with the Eagles when he turns 16 in January. (Mirror)



• Former Manchester City defender Ray Ranson is hoping to complete a deal to buy Coventry before the end of the week. (Telegraph)



• New Leicester boss Ian Holloway says he is glad the team are struggling in the Championship or he would not have been given the job. (Sun)



• Reading's Stephen Hunt says he plays with "controlled fury 99% of the time". (Guardian)



• Wenger also says it is "not his responsibility" whether England do well or not. (Sun)



• Barnsley boss Simon Davey has doubled his wages by signing a new four-year deal. (Star)



• West Brom's Kevin Phillips says he thought his career was over after suffering a recent knee injury. (Star)



• Middlesbrough's George Boateng says being in the bottom three is "devastating" and it is the worst period of his career. (Star)



• Bolton captain Kevin Nolan has hailed new manager Gary Megson for restoring the team's "nastiness and edginess" after Sammy Lee's brief ill-fated reign. (Independent)



• Tottenham's Didier Zokora wants to face Anderlecht in the Uefa Cup final to get revenge after he was hit by a missile at their ground. (Mirror)



• Chelsea's Claude Makalele is expected to retire after Euro 2008, despite having one year of his Chelsea contract left. (Express)



• Arsene Wenger says he was put off buying English players after the high-profile flops of Richard Wright and Francis Jeffers. (Star)



• Wes Brown could be on his way out of Manchester United after rejecting a four-year deal. "We feel it's a good offer and will not be going back," says Sir Alex Ferguson. (Mirror)



• Jose Mourinho cancelled a trip to London - which he says was for Christmas shopping - because he did not want to encourage rumours about the England vacancy.. (various)



• Mourinho's agent has given the Football Association a dossier of what his demands would be to take the job, including a dedicated England training facility and medical team. (Star)



• Mourinho's decision could be swayed by the fact his wife misses life in London. (Sun)



• West Ham boss Alan Curbishley says he is "happy and committed to the club" after being linked with the vacancy. (Sun)



• Arsene Wenger says having a non-English manager would be like asking a foreigner to lead a nation's army in battle. (Guardian)

• Sir Alex Ferguson was interviewed for the Barcelona manager's job in 1985 before Terry Venables took it. (Mirror)



• John Terry was too embarrassed to answer the phone to his friends after England's Euro 2008 exit at the hands of Croatia. (Star)



• Crystal Palace boss Neil Warnock says he cannot eat after 10am on a match day. (Independent)



• Sunderland boss Roy Keane says he is happy for goalkeeper Craig Gordon to have a mid-season holiday - "as long as he doesn't go out in a canoe". (Mail)



• Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez says he recently watched a comedian on YouTube doing impressions of him and Jose Mourinho. (Guardian)