HOT OR NOT: Zlatan Ibrahimovic is so cool that he's even made knee injuries fashionable, while Everton's recruitment policy is a mish-mash

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It's Hot or Not time again as Sportsmail's IAN LADYMAN reveals what's been making him feel warm and what's been leaving him cold this week... 

HOT

ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC

Overheard from a loud, middle-aged man in a gym changing room in Cheshire: 'I am just recovering from a knee injury. It was an ACL, just like Ibra'. Ibrahimovic: So achingly cool that he has even made knee injuries fashionable.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic made his return from an ACL knee injury against Newcastle

ALISON MITCHELL

BT's approach to their Ashes coverage seems to revolve around one core principle. If in doubt, talk.. talk… and then keep talking. In the middle of all this sits the elegant, restrained notes of Mitchell. We will give BT time to find their stride and in Ponting and Vaughan, in particular, there is some potential. Only Mitchell has an Ashes debut to be proud of, though. For now, she is BT's James Vince.

Alison Mitchell's depth of knowledge has been a bright spark in BT Sport's cricket coverage

MO SALAH

Lost in the wreckage of another Liverpool defensive collapse in Spain was another stellar week from their Egyptian forward. Salah has now scored 14 times in his debut Liverpool season and given that it was his two goals that sent Egypt in to their first World Cup finals since 1990 last month, it seems his club and his country will need him in equal measure going forward.

Mo Salah is the top goalscorer in the Premier League with nine goals so far this season

NOT

EVERTON

Agents trying to place players at Everton never knew who to talk to during Ronald Koeman's time. The manager, chief scout chief Steve Walsh or majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri. All of them had different lists of targets and that probably tells us why this failing Everton squad is such a mish-mash. It also indicates, in part, why the club's search for a new manager has been so disastrously disjointed.

Everton majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri says the club are 'close' to appointing a new boss

DANNY ROSE

The Tottenham full back broke ranks to criticise the club two days before the start of the season and now finds that he is not always in the first team. How strange.

Tottenham defender Danny Rose finds himself on the margins of the first-team after comments

MIKE ASHLEY

The Newcastle owner has every right to want the asking price for his club but as another transfer window looms he has a separate dilemma to wrestle with. For all the skills of manager Rafa Benitez and for all the commitment of his squad, Newcastle are a team that look short on quality where they need it most. That is largely down to Ashley's intransigence last summer and if he tries to play hardball with Benitez once again in January, he may find himself trying to sell a club deprived of its prime asset. 

Newcastle owner Mike Ashley (centre) is trying to sell when the squad needs reinvesting