Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers has said that his side are purely focussed on what they can do, and that whatever Rangers or Kilmarnock do in their respective fixtures is "irrelevant" to his sqaud.

Rangers boss Steven Gerrard has said that he will sign his two American trialists "as soon as possible" if they impress him over the next week or so. Central midfielder Matt Polster is out of contract with MLS club Chicago Fire and left back Andrew Gutman has impressed in the US college system.

And Gerrard has revealed that he lives near his Hibernian counterpart Neil Lennon and he hope that he'll "be the noisy neighbour" after the two sides meet tonight.

Motherwell manager Stephen Robinson has admitted that he will be forced into making changes to his starting eleven ahead of tonight's match against Celtic. Robinson says he has learned his lesson after Motherwell suffered a number of injuries over the hectic Christmas period last season.

Hearts boss Craig Levein has conceded that he's having difficulty finding a way to get his misfiring team to start scoring again. "I'm struggling to find a system that allows us to score goals," he said. Uche Ikpeazu and Steven Naismith are still sidelined through injury.

Aberdeen battered Dundee 5-1 at Pittodrie last night, with Dundee boss Jim McIntyre admitting after the game that his side "need help".

The Herald's Neil Cameron has argued that Gordon Strachan may well have been doing Steven Gerrard a favour when he criticised some of the Rangers squad last week.

And in response to Jose Mourinho's dismissal from Manchester United, Neil Cameron says that the Portuguese's management record since 2010 isn't actually all that impressive.

Ex-United midfielder Darren Fletcher has warned Paul Pogba that the World Cup winner can't start thinking that he's bigger than Mourinho and that the Frenchman "needs a kick up the backside."

In rugby, Edinburgh's head coach Richard Cockerill has insisted his team are "underdogs" as they begin their defence of the 1872 Challenge Cup.

Glasgow Warriors' George Horne has said that it will be strange coming up against his former mentor Henry Pyrgos, now at Edinburgh.

The Daily Record are reporting that Hearst manager Craig Levein has the full backing of owner Ann Budge over his criticism of referee Bobby Madden in Hearts' recent defeat to Rangers.

Neil Lennon has told the Scottish Sun that he admired Steven Gerrard when he was playing at Liverpool and compared his impact to that of Celtic legend Henrik Larsson.

Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne has said that the club will do all that they can to keep a hold of captain Graeme Shinnie, according to the Press and Journal. The 27-year-old is out of contract at the end of the season.