Paper Round: Carlos Tevez turns down Premier League return

Carlos Tevez turned down a move to Chelsea this summer, according to the Daily Mail, choosing instead to continue his career in Argentina with Boca Juniors. Indeed, he says he wants to finish his playing days there.

Paper Round's view: Seems plausible. Antonio Conte wants a new striker and anyone closer to home is going to cost a lot of cash - or simply isn't for sale. Still, Tevez has spent much of the summer talking about the various clubs who wanted to sign him but who he rejected. Let's hope Boca are suitably grateful for his loyalty to them, eh?

The FA have told former players that they ought to be pursuing their coaching badges and supporting the development of talent in England - not sitting on a sofa pontificating on the game for the benefit of viewers. That's according to the Daily Mail, who say that FA chief executive Martin Glenn acknowledges that TV work can be more lucrative than coaching, but that it is crucial to get international experience back into the national team's set-up.

Paper Round's view: Oh, brave new world that has such people in it! The FA want maximum buy-in to the new Sam Allardyce regime - and want former internationals invested in the team's success, rather than sniping from the sidelines. When they're trying to promote it as a career path by saying there's not so much money in it, as well as plenty of stress, you have to wonder who'd want to take that kind of job on.

After all the worry about whether or not the athletes' accommodation would be ready for the summer's Olympic Games, Team GB have decided it's better safe than sorry, and are taking a plumber along with them, just in case of an emergency. That's according to the Times, who report that a Rio plumbing firm is now on retainer with the Team GB delegation until the end of the Games.

Paper Round's view: You have to admire the caution of the Team GB hierarchy. Imagine all the tabloid headlines were the living quarters to be afflicted with burst pipes and overflowing toilets - it would offer limitless opportunities for jokes, puns and taunts for any underperforming athletes. (And that's without having to hark back to former Olympian Paula Radcliffe's notoriously public bathroom break.) Good to know they're prepared for any eventuality, anyway.

The ECB are planning a new Twenty20 competition to rival the Indian Premier League or Australia's Big Bash, according to the Telegraph, who call it the game's most radical overhaul in history. They report that cricket's governing body will be revamping domestic cricket - and it could happen as early as 2018.

Paper Round's view: What's really interesting here is that this won't replace the current Twenty20 competition, much beloved of the counties, broadcasters, and people who like to watch an entire game of cricket after work. This will run in addition to the existing T20 fixtures - which does cause potential problems with fixture scheduling (and saturation), and might cause confusion with casual viewers. There'll have to be a really distinct brand identity for everything if this report is true.