The defender was highly sought after having impressed for Southampton and assessed his options, with aspects such as playing style and fan base taken into consideration.

Premier League and Championship clubs come into the second day of the January transfer window as the hunt to bolster their squad continues. Join Sportsmail for all the latest news.

Wayne Rooney says he wants to 'play in every game' after making an impressive debut for Derby County in their 2-1 win over Barnsley and is happy to be the club's new permanent captain.

Wayne Rooney is determined to remind his old England coach Roy Hodgson that he can still cut it at the top. The 34-year-old wants to play in Sunday's FA Cup tie away to Crystal Palace.

The FA Cup third round continues on Sunday with 11 ties taking place - including four Premier League teams. Stay up to date with those matches with Sportsmail HERE.

ADAM SHERGOLD: The third round weekend of the FA Cup brought a small sprinkling of upsets and much soul-searching about the competition. Here's what we learned over the weekend.

It's still just Liverpool as the only Premier League side to have completed a major signing in January so far, but clubs up and down the country continue to hunt down their mid-season targets. 

SIMON JONES: Derby County are the latest club to ask for Tottenham winger Jack Clarke on loan with Millwall and QPR still in the frame.

Derby are facing a 21-point deduction that could relegate them to League One after they were charged by the EFL with a breach of spending regulations.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATT HUGHES: Derby County are being investigated by the Charity Commission over links between the club's community programme and main sponsor 32Red.

THE SECRET SCOUT: This week Sportsmail gets a low-down on 18-year-old Derby County midfielder LOUIE SIBLEY, who is valued at £600,000 and is the latest young talent to emerge at Pride Park.

The former Scotland international, who enjoyed three spells at Rangers but also played for fierce Glasgow rivals Celtic, scored 285 goals for club and country and played in Turkey and the MLS.

Here, Sportsmail runs you through the 10 things to keep a close eye on in this historic fifth round of the FA Cup. The action, all in midweek, gets underway on Monday night as Portsmouth host Arsenal.

Fixture congestion has become the go-to excuse for managers when their team under performs and the injury list mounts, with Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho and Pep Guardiola taking swipes.

EXCLUSIVE: Derby's Moor Farm training ground covers 50 acres of land on the outskirts of the city. Opposite is a housing estate; a place where people look out for each other.

Jesse Lingard has had his fair share of detractors to deal with over the years, but even he would have been taken aback by the abuse he received trying to board the team bus at Derby County.

Everything around football is up in the air. The season has been suspended for weeks and it is unclear when - and if - it might return. As time goes on, there are more voices calling it to be called off.

The goal most people remember from Rooney's distinguished United career was a match-winning overhead kick in the Manchester derby, but his best goal in terms of footballing craft is different.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: Sportsmail exclusively revealed how Rooney was acting on behalf of the squad in their battle against proposals to impose a 50 per cent wage deferral.

Sportsmail revealed last week that former England skipper Rooney was at the centre of tense talks with the Championship side, who had proposed 50 per cent wage deferrals to protect the club.

Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day talk about various economic aspects of the pandemic

Covid-19 continues in different parts of the world, including India. Among other things, the pandemic has significantly affected global financial markets

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces of the day

It has recommended reforms in labour and tax policies to make these two sectors globally competitive

However, there are certain reductions in duties of components to promote domestic manufacturing

Budget's proposal to frame new rules for regulating medical devices is reassuring, says Viral Gandhi

Steps to encourage implementation of technology & its tools in Indian agriculture are positive

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Mammootty, his actor son Dulquar Salman and actor and BJP Rajya Sabha member Suresh Gopi were among the celebrities who cast their vote today

Buy into a housing development with shared gardens and you never again have to face the horror of a jungle to be cleared when you return from holiday, says Fred Redwood.

MailOnline Property takes an exclusive look inside the new £7.5million property on Surrey's desirable Wentworth Estate.

According to Strutt & Parker's latest Waterside Survey 43 per cent of participants believed that people living near water are happier than those who don't.

Llwynddu House is in Ystradowen, just outside Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan and was the property that the singer bought in South Wales in the 1990s.

It's been described as 'among the finest and most prestigious country estates in the Channel Islands' and this £17.5million house ticks plenty of status symbol boxes.

Commuting to work is a costly drag, but millions of us have to do it every day. The solution? Join the increasingly popular weekday tenant club.

The new film of Downton Abbey opened this week and will likely fuel interest in a niche sector of the property market - apartments in grand country houses.

This three-bedroom property is completely derelict and is being sold at auction via SDL Bigwood Auctions next month, but buyers will need a big budget to make it liveable.

The five-bedroom family house is called Heatherbrook and sits on almost two acres on the prestigious Wentworth Estate in Surrey, with direct access to the famous golf course.

How much do our favourite winter warmers cost to install, will they be effective, and do they damage the environment? We look at four ways of raising the temperature this winter.

Views across rolling hills, swanky kitchens, converted garden sheds, now a new status symbol seems to be elbowing its way into our affections: a private stretch of woodland.

Dollhouses can help you to explore your interior design ideas with having to spend time and money on changing your actual home.

Mention a 'flat-pack' home for sale and you might imagine a latest offering from Ikea. You're less likely to imagine a 15th-century former merchant's house, dismantled and kept in dry storage.

Forget kerb appeal and marble work surfaces in the kitchen. New research shows that the single most important factor for home buyers in 2019 is having fast broadband speeds.

The two-bedroom house looks like an 'ordinary' terrace from the outside, but has a colourful interior, combining pink and gold ceilings with purple walls and carpets, and multi-coloured bedspreads.

We've selected 10 mid-terrace bungalows around Britain, but can you work out the difference between the one that costs almost half a million pounds and the one that cost less than £50,000?

Dick and Angel exclusively reveal their approach to buying a property that needs renovating, and turning it into a successful home and business.