Early Morning Notes – Tottenham, Arsenal & Van Persie/Van der Vaart, Lampard, Goal of the Day

Highlights of QPR against Aston Villa, as well as all the other games from the weekend, are up on the Facebook page.

The Metro is making noises this morning about Tottenham pursuing Athletic Bilbao midfielder Ander Herrera in January. Not much substance to that, given that Herrera only joined Bilbao this Summer.

Staying with Spurs, Caught Offside makes the fairly optimistic claim that Rafael Van der Vaart is wanted by Arsenal. Not so sure about that…

The Sun leads this morning with a story on Robin Van Persie and his ‘refusal to sign a new contract’. Read the article a little more carefully though, and it appears that The Sun are just up to their usual tricks – quotes from Van Persie:

“It’s not only about me, it’s about the team. We are not talking now because we are so busy — we have games every three or four days. I don’t think it’s clever to do that during the season.”

Yup, so a transfer request is not exactly imminent is it?

The Mail is making as much as possible of Frank Lampard leaving the substitutes bench before the final whistle against Swansea. The implication is of course that the midfielder was upset at not being used by Andre Villas-Boas on Saturday, which may well be true – but these things happen in football all the time. Come on, it’s not worth the exclamation mark in the headline.

Today’s goal of the day? Well this effort from Jone Samuelson isn’t bad…