Injuries stretch Newcastle squad.
Posted on September 29th, 2009 | 26 Comments |
Fabricio Coloccini picked up a groin strain and Ryan Taylor picked up a calf injury during Saturday’s game against Ipswich. Danny Simpson is also sidelined with an ankle injury from the Plymouth game and is doubtful for this week’s games. These add to the longer-term injuries of Shola Ameobi and Joey Barton with the latter now expected to be out until Christmas with an ankle injury.
Hughton said:
“As ever we will be assessing everybody as we go along.
“Ryan has been suffering with a little tightness in his calf and is a doubt. But Fabricio looks the more doubtful of the two and we are probably more hopeful on Ryan.
“Danny Simpson has got a chance but he is again touch and go. And providing Jonas gets through the next few days without any problems, he could also be back against QPR.”
So it’s good news about Jonas but there’s going to be some defensive reshuffling needed.
The club also published a list of upcoming international duties for our players, which includes first-teamers Ranger, Geremi, Jonas, Coloccini, Khizanishvili and Vuckic playing for their respective countries from 9th-14th October. Whilst there are no league matches during the international period, potential injuries will be a concern.
We could probably do with at least another couple of loan signings although Hughton was unaware of any move for West Brom’s Abdoulaye Meite, who has been told he can leave the Baggies and who some newspapers have speculatively linked with Newcastle.
Nobody will be more aware of how stretched the squad is than Chris Hughton but it’s probably not easy to locate suitable loan targets right now and then of course he’ll have to get approval from Ashley to make his move for players.
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