Paper Round: Raheem Sterling retains his value for Pep Guardiola's Manchester City

Pep Guardiola is excited about working with Raheem Sterling - reports the Independent. The Manchester City winger endured a difficult Euro 2016 with England, but his new club manager believes that he can get Sterling's career back on track. "Sterling has the quality," Guardiola said. "He just has to focus on his life, his profession and I’m pretty sure he will play good." Guardiola has a track-record of getting the best out of young talented players and has urged Sterling to give his all to City next season.

Paper Round's view: Raheem Sterling had a terrible Euro 2016... but that doesn't make him a terrible player (or a terrible human being, despite what some of the recent newspaper coverage attempted to make people believe).

In fact, Sterling's debut season for Manchester City wasn't actually too bad. Revisionists say that the mega-money signing has been a huge flop at the Etihad, but in truth he was settling in quite nicely in the first-half of the campaign, clearly developing as a player and showing glimpses of world-class potential. Then came an injury, the resulting drop-off in form, and finally the Euros. But there is a reason that Roy Hodson kept on picking him for England. And that reason is that he's the most talented English creative player to emerge for the best part of a decade.

Sterling has all the attributes to become a spectacular player and Guardiola is the ideal manager to bring that out of him. No wonder Pep's excited about the prospect.

Neven Subotic has travelled to the north-east of England and is ready to switch Borussia Dortmund's 'yellow wall' for the support of Teesside's finest - according to Sky Sports. The Serbian international has been given permission to visit Boro by his current club and is set to complete an £8m move after being impressed with the club's facilities.

Paper Round's view: What has happened to football?! It's great to see Middlesbrough back in the top-flight - they're a great club and have a team who will be a valuable addition to the Premier League. But they shouldn't be in a position to sign centre-backs from one of the biggest clubs in Europe.

The Premier League's vast wealth is creating a remarkable imbalance, where even teams likely to be struggling against relegation can provide a financial attraction to rival Europe's elite in the transfer market. It's going to create an incredible division with an eye-catching distribution of talent, but it surely can't be sustainable.

Fans of the English game should enjoy the ride while it lasts, because the crash will come eventually and it's going to be huge.

England have already held talks with USA manager Jurgen Klinsmann about the vacant England role - says The Telegraph. A former Germany team-mate of Klinsmann's - Oliver Bierhoff - has revealed that talks between the two have already taken place, with the ex-Spurs striker keen to take on the role. Klinsmann is well backed by the bookmakers to replace Roy Hodgson, but the FA have sought the opinions of Gary Lineker, Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand and Harry Redknapp before making a decision.

Paper Round's view: Klinsmann has turned a hard-working group of technically limited American players into a team who have consistently over-achieved at major tournaments. That alone is enough to suggest that he's a good option for England.

But there definitely should be concerns. For all of Klinsmann's success, he's tactically flawed and has never been able to find a way to gel together an attractive team to watch.

The former Tottenham star certainly talks a good game. But his results overall leave a lot to be desired. The USA frequently lose to teams they feel they should beat comfortably, while the manager has a habit of shoehorning his personal favourites into the team even if it means playing them out of position (and we know how that tends to work out).

The overall reaction if Klinsmann is appointed England manager will be positive... but it shouldn't be.