Here’s today’s tittle-tattle:
Eddie Howe expects Fabian Schär to be out for three months. The defender underwent surgery on Thursday after sustaining an ankle injury in Newcastle’s victory against Leeds last week.
“He had a successful surgery yesterday which is great news,” said Howe. “Everything went according to plan. It’s difficult to give a definitive but I think roughly around three months will be the diagnosis we’ll work towards. If it’s any quicker then great, but we need to give Fabian time to recover, it’s quite a serious injury.”
Here’s Slot on Mo Salah, who will return to Liverpool after Egypt’s Afcon third-place playoff against Nigeria.
First of all, he needs to play another big game for Egypt on Saturday and then he comes back to us and I’m happy that he comes back. Similar to Andy, Mo has been so important for this club, for me, so I am happy that he is back. Even if I had 15 attackers, I still would have been happy if he would have come back but that is not our situation. Happy to have him back after an important game that he still has to play.
