* The Mail:
Chelsea will remain among the second seeds for the Champions League next season despite the almost-certain exclusion of Juventus and AC Milan from the competition.
Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool will be among the eight top seeds for the draw but even with the top Italian sides missing Chelsea remain among the second seeds.
French champions Lyon will benefit, however, as they will now become one of the top seeds.
Top pot of seeds for Champions League according to current UEFA co-efficient: 1 Barcelona (Spa) 127.0pts, 2 Real Madrid (Spa) 120.0, 3 Inter Milan (Ita) 112.0+, 4 Liverpool (Eng) 105.9 , 5 Arsenal (Eng) 101.9 , 6 Man Utd (Eng) 100.9, 7 Valencia (Spa) 95.0 , 8 Lyon (Fra) 89.7.
Second seeds: 9 Porto (Por) 87.5, 10 PSV Eindhoven (Hol) 81.6, 11 Bayern Munich (Ger) 80.9, 12 Chelsea (Eng) 79.9, 13 Roma (Ita) 76.0+, 14 Ajax (Hol) 60.6 , 15 Celtic (Sco) 60.0, 16 Lille (Fra) 54.7.
Others: 40 Hearts (Sco) 20.0; 64 Cork City (Irl) 1.4, 68 Linfield (NIr) 0.77, 69 The New Saints FC (Wal) 0.77.
* The Guardian:
Inciting football fans to take the law into their own hands is the kind of thing you associate with the rougher kind of player or the sort of club chairman described on the financial pages as "flamboyant".
But yesterday some 300 furious Fiorentina fans invaded a station in Florence and sat on the rails, threatening to block north-south rail traffic through Italy, after being spurred to action by one of the country's most admired cultural figures. Franco Zeffirelli, who received an honorary knighthood from the Queen two years ago, had earlier appealed to his fellow Fiorentina supporters to "cut [Italy] in half" as a protest against punishments meted out to their club by a tribunal set up to judge claims of match-fixing.
The theatre, film and opera director said: "We have to show somehow that we don't agree. I abhor preaching violence, but I have a very serious and determined attitude to this issue."
* Gianluigi Buffon looks like moving from Juventus to Milan, who are forecasted to be the main beneficiaries of Juve's plight. If this goes through, the Guardian predict that United will then be after Milan's goalie, Nelson Dida.
* Valencia director of sport Amadeo Carboni says he hopes to lure Ronaldo:
"Cristiano Ronaldo would be an interesting player for any club.
"We have not lost all hope of finalising the transfer because this club can now compete financially with any club in the world."